Time Machine Overview
- 1. Time Machine! Your adventure is about to begin…
- 2. What Teachers Have Said About Time Machine! “An absolutely fantastic experience” “The online activities were dazzling and the experience in the cinema was unforgettable” “The children were completely enthralled throughout” “The excitement on their faces was the best bit” “Can we come back next year please?” “The children LOVED it!”
- 3. What Is It?! Time Machine is an alternate reality game aimed at engaging 9-12 year-old school children with the history of the Tyneside Cinema. The Tyneside is the only surviving newsreel theatre in the UK still operating as a cinema. Time Machine wraps a fictional narrative around the factual history of the building to create an unforgettable learning experience.
- 4. The Story! The fictional narrative features Ava Scott, a time travelling fourteen year old sent into the past by the International Ministry of Unauthorised Time Travel (iMUTT) to capture the evil children's entertainer King Kronos. Kronos is trying to turn the Tyneside Cinema into a Krono-Plex, a cinema showing films made by him, about him, and starring him.
- 5. How Does It Work?! The adventure begins in the classroom when the arrival of an SOS message from Ava draws the children into a series of four missions that explore different periods of the cinema’s past...
- 6. FOUR MISSIONS: 1 BESPOKE PORTAL, 6 ONLINE GAMES
- 7. Each mission contains online puzzles and practical activities that enable the children to uncover the real history of the Tyneside Cinema.
- 8. How Does It Work?! The final mission takes place in the cinema itself, where events take an unexpected turn and the children must draw on their collective knowledge of the building to save it - and Ava - from Kronos once and for all.
- 9. Locate & Lock Game! Armed with an iMUTT iPad application the class have to find all the changes Kronos has made to the building and ‘lock’ the space to prevent further disruptions. These include posters for Kronos films, Kroncessions such as KronoMix and KronoPop, and handmade Kronos dolls.
- 14. Trap Kronos Game! Once the building is in ‘lock-down’ mode, the class discover the Classic Cinema - the oldest part of the building - has been transformed into a Krono-Plex and must use Ava’s time machine to ‘trap’ Kronos and send him back to prison in 2025.
- 15. To activate the time machine the children must find keys hidden around the cinema and solve a series of heritage-based riddles.
- 16. Time Machine is now live and will run in schools and at the cinema for the next two years. To find out more visit: www.tynesidecinema.co.uk/time-machine
- 17. Credits! Experience Designer IAN FENTON Experience Producers HOLLI McGUIRE IAN FENTON Writer IAN FENTON Digital Producer JEREMIAH ALEXANDER Online Experience Developer ADAM GATENBY Mobile Experience Developer DAVID WILSON Digital Artist CORA STONE Consultant Director ANNIE RIGBY Production Designer IMOGEN CLOET Music & Sound Design JOHN ALDER Project Manager DOMINIC SMITH
- 18. THANK YOU FOR TRAVELLING WITH US!
Editor's Notes
- #6: The experience is broken into five missions that take place at different times in the cinema’s past. Four missions take place in the classroom. The final mission takes place in the cinema. In each mission the children have to save the cinema.
- #8: The experience is broken into five missions that take place at different times in the cinema’s past. Four missions take place in the classroom. The final mission takes place in the cinema. In each mission the children have to save the cinema.
- #9: The experience is broken into five missions that take place at different times in the cinema’s past. Four missions take place in the classroom. The final mission takes place in the cinema. In each mission the children have to save the cinema.