BCre8ve Mentor launches new course module this month.
October sees the launch of a new level 3 module within the creative writing faculty at Anglia Ruskin University. Anglia Ruskin, in Cambridge, was started in 1858 by the famous art critic John Ruskin as the Cambridge School of Art, which is now part of a university with sites in London, Peterborough and Chelmsford.
The module is supervised by Judy Forshaw and Rick Harvey – a BCre8ive Mentor. BCre8ive Mentors provide support to creatives in order for them to develop their ideas and projects to work within the new digital transmedia spaces, with support from new funding options e.g. crowdfunding, and existing production companies.
Dramatic Worlds
Looking to expand provision beyond the bounds of conventional modules such as screenwriting and short fiction writing Story Worlds seeks to embrace the demand for transmedia storytelling. The module focuses on the creation of (Dramatic) Story Worlds.
Using the template- see Dramatic World blog – provided by BCre8ive, the aim is to enable students to create and build Story Worlds over a twelve-week period that can then be fed directly into the online initiative. The module has attracted an initial cohort of 27 students.
Although each student will create their own Story World (for assessment purposes), they are positively encouraged to form small interdisciplinary teams with students from other disciplines (music, fine art, animation, sound design) to replicate the Mash-Up and Workshop phases of development on the BCre8ive site – See collaboration blogs.
