CINE 364 - Writing for Multimedia

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

CINEMA

Description:

Technological advances allow for content to be delivered to audiences in an ever-increasing variety of forms and formats. This course examines the current entertainment media landscape and allows students to develop and write projects that are designed for digital distribution, including web-based and mobile platforms. The incorporation of audience participation and other interactivity into storytelling will also be explored. Prerequisite: CINE 305. Course Objectives (1) Understand the craft and structure serialized storytelling format. (2) Incorporate and weave theme into serialized storytelling. (3) Understand the market. (4) Understand end-user consumer points of view. (5) Digest the current entertainment media landscape. (6) Generate characters, ideas, and pitches toward the development of videogames, web series, and other potential multimedia content. (7) Develop and write stories for a web series or mobile device series or for some other platform or other technology. (8) Create and form plans to produce various potential low-budget web series.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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