Or in other words … What has an e-learning company got to do with producing an interactive feature movie?
Well, we decided to make a movie because:
- anyone would rather watch an interesting movie than sweat over a coursebook,
- learning should be fun,
- “educational” films we have seen so far are notoriously boring. Remember those wooden dialogues and dull characters placed against a static background? Alas, we have done a couple of them too, here at SuperMemo,
- language learning should be all about natural immersion.
Why do we want to make the film interactive?
- Because interaction keeps players attentive, empowers them to make decisions and promotes natural rehearsals, which are crucial for effective memorizing,
- Because back in 2010 we were totally blown away by the Bank Run short interactive movie (http://www.bankrungame.com) and would not settle for producing anything less engaging when it comes to our educational films.
Film making
Why is this project so exciting?
- Because movie scripts, auditions, props and professional film production are a new world to us.
- Because the structure of our film needs to be cleverly synchronised with its educational content.
- Because it will be an ambitious, innovative merger of two elements: an action-packed story and linguistic material, including word lists, grammar and communication skills, which will help the users progress from the basic to proficiency level.
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