BBC Online Briefing Winter 2014: Interacting, with BBC Knowledge and Learning

Hi,

it was great to return to the BBC Online Briefing to talk to digital suppliers about the Our World War interactive video project.

To create this interactive episode we merged broadcast quality film footage with the visual grammar of gaming and animation in the form of digital “motion-comics”. By using techniques found in modern gaming experiences we set out to create something very new, a hybrid between a TV programme and a game experience – an interactive drama.

This innovative project was a BBC North based partnership between BBC Learning and Open Games teams working with MI, an interactive games agency based in Salford. You can read more about how that team developed this in Will Storer’s blog post.

You can also try out our latest Interactive video Footballers United

My colleague Chris Sizemore takes over the baton in the video below to talk about the motivations and ethos behind the BBC iWonder interactive guides and what plans he has for them over the next 6-12 months.

Tim Plyming, Executive Producer, BBC Knowledge & Learning