ICOMM 375: Digital Storytelling
This course will enable students to synthesize skills and knowledge gained from preceding courses. This course will introduce students to the elements of digital storytelling, including creating, designing, writing and producing narrative stories using multimedia technology. Students also will learn the requirements for distributing their stories to target audiences via digital delivery systems:
Assignments:
- Production Journal rubric
- Pre-Report rubric
- Critique rubric
- Benchmark rubric
- Live Event rubric
- Post Mortem rubric
Information Streams:
Lectures:
- Week 1:
- Introduction: downloadable pdf or interactive swf
- Your Education Role: downloadable pdf or interactive swf [This Reading Is Not Assigned; It Is Recommended]
- Making Transmedia (Prologue-2): PDF
- Week 2:
- Making Transmedia (3-9): PDF
- Making Transmedia (10-12): PDF
- Week 3:
- Making Transmedia (13-16): PDF
- Team Assignments
- Week 4:
- Cathy’s Book: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, Interactive Map, Cathy’s Book Primer
- Treatment, Character Arcs, World Map” + World Treatment
- Week 5:
- Audience Development Plan, Live Event Plan
- Week 6:
- Scripts, Story Map, Storyboards
- Week 7:
- Ancillary Stories
- Week 8:
- Media Asset List, Calendars
- Week 9:
- Week 10:
- Convergence Culture (Intro-1): downloadable pdf or interactive swf
- Convergence Culture (2): downloadable pdf or interactive swf
- Week 11:
- Convergence Culture (3-4): downloadable pdf or interactive swf
- Week 12:
- Convergence Culture (5): downloadable pdf or interactive swf
- Convergence Culture (6): downloadable pdf or interactive swf
- Week 13:
- Week 14:
- Week 15:
- The Final Packet
- Week 16:
- What Did We Learn