Project Aim
This project aims to create a beautiful, digital space for children to consume news stories. The challenge is to combine creative long-form story-telling techniques with the time constraints of a fast-paced news cycle. Lewnah will investigate how illustration, animation, AR, VR etc can help explain world events to younger audiences. This digital environment will focus on the life-lessons children and their parents/guardians can learn from the world around them, giving pre-teens a new way to understand and explore the world and the tools for civic engagement in the future.
At the heart of our project lie two important questions. How can younger children safely consume news? And what is the best way to deliver screen based news to four-to-seven year olds? We’ll investigate whether the popularity of kids animation can be harnessed and combined with news content. We will examine the feasibility of producing a cast of beautifully animated children’s characters, who interact with real-world news footage, to explain important news stories each week. This research project is ambitious. But we at Lewnah Ltd believe it could lead to a ground-breaking, innovative, and exciting new way to tell news stories on our screens.
