The New Screens Experience - Film and Transmedia Storytelling

About the New Screens Experience exchange programme

• Structure and content

  Language:

  The programme is taught in English  

  More information:

  See our brochure here (PDF)

  Real-world clients, mixed-reality stories

  The New Screens Experience is a hands-on semester dedicated to exploring transmedia storytelling and new screens technology. Through learning-by-doing, students apply theory to practical projects for clients such as digital agencies, artists, museums and companies. Students learn how to create characters, story worlds and interactive experiences that expand and unfold across several platforms using new screens technology and methods like Augmented Reality, Projection Mapping, Interactive Spaces and gamification. Film – in any shape or form – is incorporated into each project. The goal is to learn how to create unified, entertaining experiences where each platform and technology makes a unique contribution to a transmedia story world.

  Build a great portfolio

  Classes are taught by assistant and associate professors as well as experienced professionals from the digital visual industries. The entire programme is based on learning-by-doing, so lectures are short, and theory is applied to practical projects from day one. Students work in teams and receive appreciative feedback on their creative performance on a near-daily basis. At the end of the programme, each student will have an extensive new screens portfolio and an in-depth understanding of team-based creative processes.
  
  

  Enjoy a creative classroom

  Students attend all lectures and work on their projects in the programme’s very own creative workshop. 24-hour access to first-rate professional equipment enables students to realise their creative visions in thorough detail. The workshop has digital production facilities, a workspace as well as a kitchen and a lounge area that makes for a warm and friendly atmosphere. As the semester progresses, photos, drawings, mood boards, props and other materials that the class is working on/with come to adorn the workshop.

  A series of lectures and hands-on workshops lead up to the programme’s final student project where filmic and transmedia storytelling transcends the screen and expands into the physical world: a real life experience using technologies such as film, projection mapping, game design and XR [AR,VR,MR] to immerse guests in a hybrid, transmedia story.

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  More information

  Learn more about VIA Film and Transmedia

• Enrolment

  We warmly welcome international students. Studying at the school for a semester is a unique opportunity to specialise and dive into the field of transmedia – as well as an opportunity to get to know Denmark. 

  If your university does not have a partner agreement with VIA Film & Transmedia, it is still possible to study at VIA, but for a fee. Alternatively, you can ask the international coordinator at your institution to contact us about the possibility.

  If you are a graduate wishing to study for a semester with us to strengthen your profile, it is also possible to do so for a fee.

  Rikke Thomsen
  International Coordinator
  T: +45 87 55 05 53
  E: riht@via.dk 

  Language requirements

  VIA Film & Transmedia requires that you have an English level of B2 or higher.
   
  You are at B2 level if you can

  • Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in your field of specialisation.
  • Interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
  • Produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

  Other standards approximately equivalent to B2

  • IELTS: 5-6.5 (5 is borderline between B1 and B2)
  • TOEFL: 87 to 109
  • TOEIC: 400-485 (listening), 385-450 (reading)
  • Cambridge Exam: CAE (45 to 59) / FCE grade B or C / PET Pass with Distinction

  Other requirements 

  In order to apply, you should have completed at least two years of studies in related areas and be 18 years old or more.

• How to apply

  Your home institution must have an inter-institutional agreement with VIA University College in order for you to be able to apply for an exchange programme at VIA.  

  If an agreement exists, you will be able to fill in the application form. Please be aware that VIA must receive a nomination from your home institution as well. 

  Go to the application portal to apply now

• Fees and tuition

  Exchange students do not pay tuition fees.

  Per definition, exchange stays are an exchange of one or more students between partner universities and therefore, exchange students do not pay tuition fees.

  If you do not know, if your institution is a partner of VIA, please contact the international office at your home institution. If your institution is not a partner of VIA and you would like us to discuss the possibility of establishing an exchange agreement with your home institution, please contact us at bell@via.dk.

  All students enrolled in The New Screens Experience will have expenses of approx. DKK 2.200 (€300) for the semester. 

• Contact

  Please contact our International Coordinator if you have any questions. 

  Rikke Thomsen
  International Coordinator
  T: +45 87 55 05 53
  E: riht@via.dk

  You are also welcome to contact us if you have any general questions about VIA

  VIA Film & Transmedia 

  Filmbyen 4, 3rd floor 
  DK-8000 Aarhus C
  T: + 45 87 55 05 53 / +45 87 55 05 55
  E: transmedia@via.dk 

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