CS4319 TELLING THE STORY IN MULTIMEDIA

This course embraces your future: the future of storytelling through multimedia as multimodal delivery. The course allows you to experiment with and extend your personally generated skills in differing platforms to embrace changing industry needs. The course allows you to draw `cutting edge' research from the academic environment and apply it practically as story across varied media. You will oversee your designated areas, forming teams and operating to a timeline. You will be involved in storytelling in media fractions, which make up a whole distributed work under the guidance of your tutor. This represents experiential learning as we assist you to master your chosen medium within a wider technological and narrative context. As such, you will be re-familiarized with screenwriting for multi-media distribution platforms, utilizing your discipline specific talents in various and flexible approaches to contrasting platforms. You will enhance your writing skills for contrasting media and develop modern writing skills in small teams. i.e., one group of students may embrace storytelling for online gaming, another may adopt traditional filmic storytelling, another group may discover non-traditional uses of screenwriting in varied environments such as interactive narratives, another might adopt visual installation art or distributing social media - depending on which students enroll, your established skills, class sizes and what your interests are. You are encouraged to locate the specific qualities of your chosen platform. Each platform component will embrace its own defining story but will also be aligned to a major story operating as overarching link between its constituent parts. This is the story in multimedia, and it is inherently ahead of industry. So, while industry experience and advice are included in the course you will essentially be involved in forging a new and future path for an industry which is ripe for it.