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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 two options you may follow:-
- If you have the time and expertise within your group, you may script
your complete multimedia production. This option suits best a clear,
coherent, relatively short, self-contained production.
- Some multimedia productions require a time commitment far beyond
the resources of this class. In this case, you may submit a proposal
and treatment for the entire production, but submit a script for only
a segment of the production. The segment you write, though, should
fulfill all the requirements of the assignment. This option might
work best if you want to develop a complex narrative multimedia game,
for example.
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.
Remember, too, that with planning, you may be able to merge this assignment
with an assignment for a multimedia production class. For example, you
might script the project in this class and execute it in another class.
Objectives of the
assignment:
- to practice working collaboratively to develop a coherent production
- to execute with confidence the multiple writing tasks (both in communicating
with your client (me) and internally within your group) required in
a multimedia production
- to script meaningful interactivity into your production
- to learn from each other new concepts, new perspectives and new
skills
Dates and Parameters
Proposal
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 (no
more and no less!)
Treatment
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
Not many requirements here. You should use a relevant script format
for your goal. 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 (Exam. Day)
In your hands!
Grading
25% of your individual grade for this project comes from your group
members' evaluation of your contribution to the project. It is thus
quite possible for the group project to receive one grade and for individual
members within the group to receive different grades.
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