Newspaper

After we'd discussed what aspects of transmedia we'd like to create I began on the creation of a newspaper.

The aim for the newspaper is to hand it out around Manchester similarly to the Why So Serious? campaign where they handed out The Gotham Times in Chicago. The newspaper will include two stories; the first will be an article on the new manager taking over the hotel with a slight mention to a death and an article about the investigator solving a haunting in a club in Manchester. However to make it seem more realistic I used a club in Manchester that is known to be haunted so the readers will begin to think it is real.

The newspaper will also contain links to the investigator's blog, the team's website etc. All to try and make the newspaper seem real so when people look on the different links they'll think that the website and social media are all real.

I also based the layout of the newspaper on the Manchester Evening News the local newspaper in Manchester. Again this made the whole thing seem more realistic to the people of Manchester as psychologically they would recognise the design.

The Manchester Evening News

The finished fake newspaper to be handed out in Manchester

Characters

We decided the best way to work out characters and deaths throughout the period of the hotel being open was to create a timeline of events.

From here we are able to create exact hauntings relating to each person who died in the room and compare that to dates. For example a couple could enter the hotel room vlogging about their trip away and state "So it's the 12th February and here we are checked in ready for our Valentine's weekend". This would mean the ghosts in this case would be Monica Stanton and her husband who died on that day in 1940.

Checklist for the Portfolio

After a discussion we decided on a list of 15 transmedia aspects that we wanted to create for our project:

• YouTube videos of the hauntings
• Website for the hotel
• Teaser advert of just the number
• Film poster
• Hotel Manager's account
• Newspaper about the new manager and the paranormal investigator solving the hauntings at Brannigans
• Investigator's Twitter account
• Investigator's blog
• Newspaper articles on the deaths
• One TV news report on one of the modern deaths
• BPI website
• BPI Facebook 
• BPI Twitter
• BPI logo
• Wikia