MFC5113 - Interactive Storytelling

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module provides instruction and analysis of different types and methods of creating and interacting with digital narratives. You are introduced to classic hypermedia texts in the context of technological development. You learn to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different digital narrative formats, their publishing platforms and their application for storytelling in both fiction and non-fiction forms. To consolidate and test your learning you participate in and co-create your own digital narratives (such as game-based narratives and interactive scenario design).

Learning and Teaching Information:

Workshops
Hours: 40
Intended Group Size: 25

Screening and Play-throughts
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: Online groups

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Assignment 1. This is a piece of collaborative writing to demonstrate theoretical and practical understanding of the principles of interactive storytelling. It is possible for the development to be collaborative but the final result to be an individual piece, or students can work together throughout to create a group narrative.

Assignment 2. This is a sustained interactive/branching narrative, demonstrating the ability to design interactive stories and to select and deploy appropriate interactive storytelling techniques to achieve specific user-experiences for participating audiences. This could be presented as audio, video, text or mixed media.

Early Assessment: there will be a formative assessment within the first 4 weeks and this will help unpack the assignment details for the 1st assignment as well as guide and inform student preparation and help introduce the University grading system.

Assessment:

001 Collaborative writing; 3,000 words, end of semester 1 50%
002 Individual artefact; 3,000 words; end of semester 2 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Liz Cable
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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