January 27: Introductions
January 29: Intro of Syllabus
*** MODULE 1 – Gathering Material ***
Feb 3: Gather Material Discussion
- Project 1 Set
- Mini Assignment 1 DUE
- Mini Assignment 2
Feb 5: Brainstorm 1
- Project 1: Post Preliminary Sentence and Paragraph Description to blog
- Mini Assignment 2: Daily journal entries
- Question about Barthes reading to discussion board
Feb 10 – How meaning is made
- Remember to post question about reading on blog BEFORE class
- Project 1 Discussion
Feb 12 – How meaning is made
- In class writing assignment – Pick a character from your project and do “Create an Unreliable Narrator“
- Analyses using Barthes
- Mini Assignment 2 ENDS
Feb 17 – Cut Up
- READING: Barthes extract and Sarrasine
- Andrew Stanton: Ted Talk “The clues to a great story“
- Shekhar Kapur: Ted Talk “We are the stories we tell ourselves“
- comparison
Feb 19 – Work on Project 1:
- Analyses of advertising – set analysis project
- In class rework title, paragraph and sentence – send in email and bring printed version on MONDAY
- Studio Day (storyboard, plan, diagram)
Feb 24
- READING Stafford: A Way of Writing
- Giving Feedback
- Set groups for Wed
- Project 1: Writing Idea: Title, sentence and paragraph descriptions Due
Feb 26 Project 1: Presentations
- Project 1: Analysis Due
- Presentation of Writing Idea/Plan and/or Treatment to group
*** MODULE 2 – Assembling and Structuring ***
Mar 3 – What is structure
- Project 2: creative work set
- What is structure discussion
Mar 5 – Aristotle and Brecht
Mar 10 – Sita Sings the Blues
- Project 2: Treatment DUE
- Project2: Group1 – 5 pages of script due (Silva, Murphy, Egan, Johnson, Cibella)
Mar 12 –
- Discussion of Sita
- Project 2: discuss requirements
- In class writing assignment TBA
RECESS (March 17-23)
Mar 24
- Project 2 Analysis DUE
- Interactive Writing Exercise
Mar 25 STUDIO DAY
- READING/VIEWING TBA
- Project 2 Draft – first 5 pages DUE
- Project 2: Group1 – 10 pages of script DUE (Silva, Murphy, Egan, Johnson, Cibella)
Mar 31 TBD
Apr 2 Dialog –
- Project 2 Draft – first 10 pages DUE
Apr 7 READING A Preliminary Poetics for Interactive Drama and Games, Michael Mateas
- Michael Mateas Questions
- Play Donna Leishman – Deviant:’The Possession of Christian Shaw’
Apr 9 PROJECT 2 PRESENTATION
- Reading Presentation of FIRST DRAFT – all critique material will be in room. Please read instructions first. Please keep to schedule.
- Group 1: room 232: Egan, Lavin, Wang, Doyno
- Group 2: conference room, room 238: Scaduto, Dzimian, Murphy, Garvey, Pusch
- Group 3: TV studio, room 278: Bills, Dai, Inbody, Cibella
- Group 4: TV studio, room 278: Woods, Baker, Johnson, Roberts, Cook
- Group 5: TV studio, room 278: Champagne, Brocking, Wu, Silva, Crespo
*** MODULE 3 Editing and Restructuring ***
Apr 14 Investment, Fictionalizing and What’s the Point?
Apr 16 View Excerpts
Apr 21 Readings/Presentations/Critiques
- Dzimian, Egan, Silva, Cibella (~20 mins each)
Apr 23 Readings/Presentations/Critiques
- Wang, Johnson, Murphy, Brocking
Apr 28 Readings/Presentations/Critiques
- Baker, Garvey, Roberts, Dai
Apr 30 Readings/Presentations/Critiques
- Bills, Scaduto, Wu, Woods
May 5 Readings/Presentations/Critiques
- Inbody, Doyno, Pusch, Champagne
May 7 Readings/Presentations/Critiques
- Cook, Lavin, Crespo