Open Narration in Technologically Innovative Media 2

Subject guarantor:

Eric ROSENZVEIG

Name of lecturer(s):

Eric ROSENZVEIG, Tomáš DORUŠKA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To introduce students to the potential of interactive narration - Expanded narrative.

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:

http://cas.famu.cz/wiki/index.php/Open_and_Non-Linear_Narrative

Potential to enter one's project into the database which is the result of the multi-layer 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.

- Network in contemporary media theory, Rhizometric and hierarchical structures, history of hyper-links, related basic computer devices and concepts.

- History of Non-linear film 1 - examples, DVD screening, interactive projects and the internet.

- History of Non-linear film 2 - examples, DVD screening, interactive projects and the internet.

- Basic database concepts - development and use of databases for media objects, concept of filed, orthogonality, access, data formats, analysis, automization, associated searches

- Metadata - text and visual representations of media objects for the creator and the audience.

- Coincindence and authorization - original approach to building structure , use of coincidence and influenced coincidence (artificial intelligence, artificial life).

- Audience control of a piece, concept of mediating

- Guest lecturer on new narrative structures 1 - temporality and length of narrative

- Guest lecturer on new narrative structures 2.

- User and creator playing, devices and functions for organizing sound and image material.

- Narration sprawl and rule-based figure development.

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

# 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:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer 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. 15:40–17:15 (přednášková par. 1)
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Fri
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	15:40–17:15	DORUŠKA T.	Učebna CAS Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

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)