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The Assignment
You should create collaboratively a multimedia production which each
group will present to the remainder of the class (as critical audience)
at the end of the semester.
You may create any type of multimedia presentation you wish, but its
genre (news, information, interactive fiction, narrative multimedia,
instructional multimedia, advertising, game, etc.), target audience
and purpose must be clear.
Part of this assignment is your ability to choose collectively a project
that your group can execute within the time available this semester
and in your respective schedules. I note below three options you may
follow:-
- If you have the expertise within your group, you may create your
complete multimedia production. This option suits best a clear, coherent,
relatively short, self-contained production.
- However, as some multimedia productions require time commitment
and participation far beyond the resources of this class, you may
submit a proposal and treatment for the entire production, but submit
only a partial script for the segment of the production you choose
to execute. This option might work best if you want to develop a complex
narrative multimedia game, for example.
- If your group isn't quite expert enough to create the partial or
full multimedia production, you should submit the proposal, treatment
and script for the production, and then develop another vibrant, original
way to present your project to the class.
As the subject matter and style of the group project are so open, you
may wish to develop, as a group, a project that will add to your résumé
or contribute to a 'show reel' of your work.
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Dates and Parameters
Proposal (due 15 February)
The proposal constitutes your 'pitch' to me as a potential client.
You should convince me through your analysis of your target audience
and potential competitors, and your evocation of the originality and
dynamism of your project that I should give your endeavors the green
light.
Length: one single-spaced page, or two double-spaced pages
Treatment (due 22 March)
The treatment is your detailed description of your project, outlining
'story' trajectory, the development of the 'story,' the types and levels
of interactivity, the goals of the production and its payoffs. (See
the models in the Writing for Multimedia.)
Length: at least five double-spaced pages
Script (due 19 April)
Not many requirements here. You should use a recognizable script format,
though. Remember, however, that scripting takes much longer than the
writing of prose or drama, although you often write far fewer words.
Start early and exchange texts often.
Length: as long as it takes
Presentation (due 3 May)
In your hands!
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