MAS 961 Special Topics: New Media Storytelling (Breazeal/Bove/Davenport)

Thursday 1-3pm in E15-443A

Hands-on subject that explores the art of storytelling using new technologies. Perspectives on storytelling as a business as well as an art. Guest lecturers supplement a laboratory/workshop format. Individual or group final project required.

Cynthia Breazeal: E15-449, x2-5601, cynthiab@media.mit.edu

Michael Bove: E15-448, x3-0334, vmb@media.mit.edu

Glorianna Davenport: gid@media.mit.edu

Class Wordpress site: http://newmediastorytelling.wordpress.com/wp-admin

Feb 4 Introduction (Bove, Breazeal, Davenport)

Feb 11 Writing story for video games (Clara Fernandez and Geoff Long)

Recommended readings: Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan's First Person/Second Person collection; in particular see Henry Jenkins' Game Design as Narrative Architecture.

Also see Henry Jenkins' The Revenge of the Origami Unicorn

Feb 18 Game design (Philip Tan)

Recommended Reading: Brathwaite and Schreiber, Challenges for Game Designers

Feb 25 A Grab-Bag of New Media Storytelling Topics

Mar 4 No class (E14 dedication)

Mar 11 How Hasbro does storytelling (guest speaker TBA)

Mar 18 Storytelling tools (Frank Capria -- Avid)

Initial discussion of project ideas

Mar 25 No class (spring break)

Apr 1 Project pitch

Apr 8 Interactive media (Annie Valva -- WGBH Interactive)

Apr 15 TBA

Apr 22 Mobile games and learning (Eric Klopfer)

Apr 29 Group final project debug

May 6 Final project presentations

May 13 More final project presentations