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FILM 455 Cross-Platform Storytelling Units: 3.00
A practical special topic course that explores how a single story can be told across different popular media with special attention to emerging platforms and technologies, from graphic novels to video games, augmented reality to virtual reality.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply filmmaking theory and principles, and conceptualize a narrative work across each of these different platforms.
- Evaluate and determine which platform or technology is best suited for the story they want to tell, then create and present an actual story prototype. Iterate on this prototype, based on peer feedback and discussions.
- Explore, analyze and compare different storytelling platforms and technologies, drawing from extensive case studies and sample works.
- Identify, assess and discuss the potential strengths and weaknesses of each.
- Improve their practical understanding of different media and technologies, and identify possible career interests and opportunities.
- Prepare for the changing multimedia industry.