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Mas.845 Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling
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| Spring 2006 | ||
| Units 2-0-7 | ||
| (H) Level Grad Credit | ||
| Tuesdays 10am - noon; E15-335 | ||
| Instructor: Glorianna Davenport | ||
| Guest lecturers: Hyun-Yeul Lee, Mark Haliday, Henri Herré, Edward Shen, Hugo Liu, Orit Zuckerman and others | ||
| Course Description: Storytelling is widely recognized as a fundamental mode of human communication. Story creation involves the restructuring of temporal experience, of events and actions associated with a life-lived. Stories-told provide us with a privileged insight not only into our own history but into the history of our environment and the things contained there in. By their nature, narratives involve the compression of time. Through the selection of actions and events, narrative telling creates its perspective by means of discontinuity, omission and juxtaposition. In this seminar, we explore digital forms and storyteller systems can enhance the process of collecting story materials and enhancing story engagement. The course is roughly divided into three parts: Part 1: time, space and narrative our learning stories: life experience, telling, the act of interpretation Part 2: the cinematic sequence finding a voice; defining a world; framing; lighting, structure Part 3: distributed digital story environments issues of time, continuity, participation and interpretation Course Requirements: Participation in class discussion. Construction of a personal learning story and development of 2 prototype storyteller projects. |
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