Instructor: Hanson Hosein
Office: Room 251C, Communications Building
Office Hours: By Appointment
Contact: hosein at u.washington.edu
SUBJECT TO CHANGE (3/12/2009 added links for Week 10)
This is a pivotal time in the history of digital media. Inexpensive technology and powerful distribution networks mean nearly anyone can transmit their creations.
Since the advent of human communication, storytelling has been a key factor in our survival and development.
Over the last century, storytelling to an audience beyond our immediate social circle has largely been the preserve of industrialized, mass media. But now, with digital media, we can not only listen to new voices, we can be those new voices – leading some to conclude that we have entered into a new Storytelling Age.
Despite our newfound access to these tools of creation and distribution, effective communication still requires the timeless basics of effective storytelling – perhaps even more so given the exponential increase in new content competing for attention.
In this hands-on course, we'll explore what it takes to conceive, develop, create and distribute compelling multimedia stories.
At the end of this course, we'll be able to:
- Identify the essential elements to successful storytelling.
- Evaluate the societal impact of accessible, inexpensive content creation technology.
- Consider the business opportunities and legal issues, related to digital media content creation and distribution.
Multimedia Storytelling will be valuable to anyone who's interested in using storytelling techniques to successfully convey a message to a target audience using digital media.
See our work-in-progress at www.mcdmspace.ning.com and www.flipthemedia.com