Transmedia Storytelling Process Product

AY2021/2022 Semester 1

This course embraces your future: the future of storytelling through transmedia 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 be in charge of 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 course 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-familiarised with screenwriting for multi-media distribution platforms, utilising 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 enrol 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.