Open Narration in Technologically Innovative Media 1

Subject guarantor:

Tomáš DORUŠKA, Eric ROSENZVEIG

Name of lecturer(s):

Tomáš DORUŠKA, Eric ROSENZVEIG

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To introduce the potential of interactive narration - expanded narration.

The objective is to have students understand how to create relevant, contemporary moving image pieces with contemporary technology, image viewing habits and technology. Students will be involved in creating both software and their own content as well as using existing content to build navigable media structures for making 'future cinema' viewable on networked mobile devices.

Mode of study:

Readings, lecture, moderated discussion, discussions, media recording sample analyses, text analyses, essays, contact instruction of study comparisons, screenings, External writer lectures.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Intended for Bachelor of Arts degreed students. This course is linked to the workshop where Baccalaureate knowledge is used.

Recommended optional programme components:

Potential to enter one's project into the database which is based on the formation of a multi-layered narrative.

Course contents:

A 2 semester Master's course / Czech-English

One of many common characteristics of the YouTube systems soap operations is that multilayer structure of narration. It is the joining of significance with media objects based on one's own decision. In this course about ourselves, we focus on how to research the development of this area, practical creation of pieces using various approaches from the history of film in a non-linear video; from the Cinema-vending maching (1967, Raduz Cincera) through oneworldmovie.ch playListNetWork.com to applications for iPhones or Android. Creating modifications in content collectively takes part in the development of modelling open narrative about oneself and becomes a device for the students for a new space in media.

Lectures:

Each lecture points out relevant writings and uses audio-visual samples. Part of each lecture is a presentation of students' work.

- Guest lecturer on open narrative structures - narration theory, organization of important elements for narration in digital space, differences between divergent and complex structures.

- Figures, props, shooting preparations in non-linear narration conditions

- Google.com and other commercial tools, analysis of existing systems for non-linear narration (Google, Korsakow system, playListNetWork...)

- Types of depiction equipment, image size - adaptability of the image to a scale.

- User playing for text and graphics - audience navigation in multi-channel projections.

- Lateral thinking, parallel narrative channels, references

- Point of view, narrative capabilities of the camera, classification of shots.

- Composition links, representation of key areas, technical transitions between channels and navication techniques using text and the image

- The role of composer and sound designer in unifying disparate material.

- Guest lecturer on narration theory.

- Broadening of traditional distribution channels, transmedia, narration in various media

- Guest lecturer on post-synchronicity and credits, types of credtis, use of text.

- Foreign film: playing, RPG, mixed and augumented reality, interactive installations and other trends.

- Final project - workshop 1

- Final project - workshop 2

- Final project - workshop 3

Recommended or required reading:

Gaston Bachelard, Poetika prostoru, Malvern, 2009

Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, MIT Press, 2003

Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Eds.), Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives, MIT Press, 2009

Rieser, Martin and Zapp, Andrea (Eds.), New Screen Media: Cinema /Ar t/Narrative, bfi Publishing, 2002

Bushoff, Brunhild (Ed.) Developing Interactive Narrative Content, (sagas_sagasnet_reader) High Text, 2005

Janine Marchessault and Susan Lord (Eds.), Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema (Digital Futures), U. of Toronto Press, 2008

George Landow, Hypermedia 3.0, Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization, John Hopkins University Press, 2006

http://www2.iim.cz/wiki/index.php/Interactive,_Open_or_Non_Linear_Media_works_links

Texts:

Third Person Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives, Noah Wardip-Fruin (editor)

Database Aesthetics Art in the Age of Information Overflow, Victoria Vesna (editor)

# Hilf, William Homer, Beginning, Middle and End ? Not Necessarily in that Order?

# Ledes, Richard, The Challenges of Building Interactive Narratives?

# Shen, Edward, Storied Navigation (MIT dissertation)?

# Smith, Michael Aaron, Transmedia Storytelling in Television 2.0, Strategies for Developing Television Narratives Across Media Platforms

# Brooks, Kevin Michael, Metalinear Cinematic Narrative: Theory, Process, and Tool (MIT dissertation)?

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture, exercises, classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Active 80% participation in lectures. A concept of one's original work using open narrative principles.

Course web page:

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Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon	místnost 423 Učebna CAS (Lažanský palác) DORUŠKA T. 16:30–18:05 (paralelka 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	16:30–18:05	DORUŠKA T.	Učebna CAS Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animation - Master (optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Master (optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Animation - Master (optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Master (optional subject)
• Film Directing - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Film Directing - Master (optional subject)
• Cinematography - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Cinematography - Master (optional subject)
• Production - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Production - Master (optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Editing - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Editing - Master (optional subject)
• Sound Design - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Sound Design - Master (optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Master (optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Master (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Restoring of Photogrphy (optional subject)