Open AccessBlue Pencil
Author(s) -
Rafael Antunes
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
interactive film and media journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2564-4173
DOI - 10.32920/ifmj.v1i1.1496
Subject(s) - narrative , general partnership , portuguese , censorship , entertainment , alliance , theme (computing) , european commission , sociology , animation , political science , media studies , european union , visual arts , art , computer science , literature , business , world wide web , law , linguistics , philosophy , economic policy
This article aims at analyzing and discussing the proposed objectives and outcomes of a transmedia project that was run in partnership with CICANT/Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Portuguese media group Impresa, as part of a European Commission-funded project named CIAKL-Cinema and Industry Alliance for Knowledge and Learning. The Blue Pencil project had as its main objective the development of a transmedia narrative that grouped different platforms and technologies, which included intersections inside the narrative within the genres of entertainment and education. Taking as its central theme the censorship in Portugal during the Estado Novo, the narrative extends into a short fiction film, a documentary, a site with archive material, an online game that challenges writing on freedom of the press, an online store, and a school program, in partnership with the network of school libraries, to launch the debate of censorship in schools.