PG04 Planning (06 Feb 2013)

Find 2 books from the library
Find 1 question - look at an impact or argument

concept and prototype - allows you to test a theme

**Ask a question
2 professors from the MSc Computational Design course at Goldsmiths are coming in on 13 Feb 13.
How would they define creativity?
Possible later workshops planned for the summer, with students from the Pratt School, NY.

Prepare two thesis's - later to support the argument.

**Say what I need to support the project > Britta

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Make a Poster presentation. - placed onto one sheet
Be responsible for who you want to invite.

Storytelling - what does it mean?
What other people think it means.
How do you test their theory?
Analysis.

Look at:
KRESS
VAN LEEUWEN
LEV MANOVICH - professor > Computer Science - look at Methodology

SEMIOTICS - 'how we read signs'

Research types -
Practice-based research
Theory-based research

HOWARD GARDENER - Is Creativity a form of intelligence?
MARGARET BOWDEN - Define Creativity.
'The Rehetorics of Creativity' - Literature Review - with Professor Andrew Burn

Areas I am going to explore for the Research question:

Narrative
Interactivity
Immersion
Stories
New Media
Transmedia
Non-linear Narrative
Relationship between Story-making skills and the World of Work

Transmedial Narratology

storytelling practices in different media share common features.

in that they are part of the narrative texttype.

Future of Narrativity

p223 - Narrative, Paul Cobley

Pierce's sign triad (1955) - representamen, object, interpretant

Narratives in Digital Media

Research Question:

Medium and Message: A study of how stories are transformed across different forms of digital media. Are stories actually best viewed in their original form?

The question has to explore a question that has not been answered before.

What is the argument?

Possible sources to read:

1)Basic Elements of Narrative - David Herman

2)Narrative - the New Critical Idiom - Paul Cobley

3)Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play - Drew Davidson, PHD

4)Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag

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Visit by Immersive.EU

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Dates:
Formative assessment: 17 April

Final/Summative assessment: 29 May
Submit Final piece (major project) and CARD - September.

Setup - Fri 21 June

Degree Show - 25 June, 26 June - open to Public

Take apart - 27 June.

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KRESS and VAN LEEUWEN refs:

Print:

Kress, Gunther and Theo van Leeuwen (1996). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge, 130-135.

Online:

Multimodality
http://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-7-literacies-as-multimodal-designs-for-meaning-2/kress-and-van-leeuwen-on-multimodality/

mentors: Rudolph Arnheim, Roland Barthes and Michael Halliday

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LEV MANOVICH
http://www.manovich.net/

http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/Manovich.Media_after_software.2012.pdf

HOWARD GARDENER
http://howardgardner.com/

With Carrie James and other colleagues at Project Zero, he is also investigating the nature of trust in contemporary society and ethical dimensions entailed in the use of the new digital mediaMARGARET BOWDEN
http://www.iwcommunitylearning.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=2613

Margaret Bowden (1999) says that there are two key dimensions to creativity: the historical and the personal
Lack of concencus about what Creativity is.
http://www.itte.org.uk/icttutors/creativity.html

'Transmedia Storytelling'
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/29/transmedia-args

http://www.tstoryteller.com/
multiple stories across multiple platforms - conducttr

http://www.tstoryteller.com/types-of-transmedia

participation, pervasiveness,

'Transmedial Narratology' - study of storyworlds across multiple media

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/research/research-nexus/digital-nexus/global-project-on-transmedia/transmedia-storytelling-and-beyond/

http://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2012/8762/is-transmedia-storytelling-the-future-of-content-marketing
Is Transmedia Storytelling the Future of Content Marketing?

http://storycentraldigital.wordpress.com/

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http://henryjenkins.org/2011/08/defining_transmedia_further_re.html

This is the definition I like! - where the integrated experience is accentuated.

Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes it own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.

Transmedia branding
Transmedia performance
Transmedia ritual
Transmedia play
Transmedia activism
Transmedia Spectacle

Are there any examples of telling the initial story across different media?
ie.Blog > Video > etc.