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Digital Storytelling: Schedule and Assignment Links Course Homepage - DS Tools - FJ Contact/Home - Recommend a Link? Supplemental Links Jump to a Week 1.1: Introduction--Selection, Sequence, and 21st C. Literacy Homework Reading (for Christmas
Break)
Kodak's
Top Ten Hints for Photography
Guidelines for Better Photographic Composition "Liar, Liar Pants on Fire" (Errol Morris) Fast Food From Class Other/Related/From Class Screening/Auditing Night
Officially,
this course has a Tuesday night "screening" time (6:30-9:30).
Actually, we'll do just two official evening
screenings: a
group listening time on this first Monday and then a screening on
Tuesday of week 3.
1.2: Audio Tale Telling Due Before Class:
Email me a brief MP3 file (10 seconds or less) recorded with Audacity,
Garageband, or another program to which you have access.
Homework Listening
Ira Glass on
Storytelling (20 min.)
RadioLab: "Making
the Hippo Dance" (30 min.)
RadioLab: "War of the Worlds" (60 min.) This American Life: "Music Lessons" (15 min.) (Also here.) LAME
mp3 Encoder for Audacity (Export mp3 Files)
Official Manual Jason Van Orden's Video Tutorials (Start Here) Basic Editing Tutorial by Dan Eliot A Text-Based Tutorial GarageBand
Tutorial (Official)
Great Audio/Radio
Programs
This American Life
(Ira Glass)
RadioLab (Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad) A Prairie Home Companion (Garrison Keillor) Other/Related/From Class
Podcasting Links from
About.com
"Podcasting in Plain English" (CommonCraft) Creative Commons Podcasting Tools (inc. Legal Guide) "The World's Most Generic News Report" (C. Brooker) "Making RadioLab" (RadioLab) "Jad and Robert: The Early Years" (RadioLab) 1.3: Graphic Design for Amateurs Homework Reading/Exploration
The Non-Designer's Design Book,
pp 10-80
Optional additional
reading: pp 81-90
Scott McCloud's Six Transitions (Handout)From Class:
"Create Your
Own Print Ad" (AdBusters)
Kinetic/Animated Typography
and Other Animations
"Who's on
First"
"The Girl Effect" From Monty Python From Fight Club From V for Vendetta From Pirates of the Caribbean From The Godfather From The Office From Napoleon Dynamite From Zoolander "Typolution" "The Cool Guys" (Tales of Mere Existence) "A Typical Conversation with my Mother" (TME) "Built to Last" Ronnie Bruce's "Declaratives" Typography Other/Related/From Class
Grabbing
Images from Your Computer's Screen
Illustrated Bibles: one, two, three "15...Things Worth Knowing About Coffee" (The Oatmeal) "How a Web Design Goes [Wrong]" (The Oatmeal) Mark Coleran's Fake Computer Interfaces Mark Coleran's Interfaces in Action New Orleans Refrigerators Vintage Ad Browser IX Exercises (Ball and Arola) 1.4: CopyLeft and Sharing Due At Class
Time: Turn in a printed/made/drawn mock up/rough draft of the visual
project you've begun planning. (Don't give me your only copy!
Photocopies are fine.) On the back, or on a
separate sheet
of paper, list the major elements of your project, so far.
Homework Viewing/Reading
Larry
Lessig on Copyright Killing Creativity (20 min.)
Clay Shirky on Collaboration (20 min.) James Surowiecki on How Social Media Matters (20 min.) "How to Destroy the Book, Part 1" (Cory Doctorow) "How to Destroy the Book, Part 2" (Cory Doctorow) Sir Ken Robinson on Schools Killing Creativity (20 min.) Other/From Class:
Combo
Creative Commons.org Creative Commons Videos/Media "A Fair(y) Use Tale" (Eric Faden, Bucknell U) "Fair Use" (US Copyright Office) "Share" (Habibman) The Internet Archive "Social Bookmarking in Plain English" (CommonCraft) "Rocket Radio" (William Gibson) "Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate" (NYT, 1/3/05) William Gibson on Writing in the Age of Google Electronic Frontier Foundation "WhoseTube?" (Damian Kulash, Jr., of OK Go) "The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club" (ISP/Yale) 1.5: Comics Intro Homework Reading
Understanding Comics
(Chapters 1-6, 8)
Other/From Class
2.1: Slideware 1 Print Project + Essay DueFJ's
Comics Page (Developing)
Maira Kalman @ NYT NYT Comics Page Best American Comics Series Hitchcock on the Kuleshov Effect Bayeux Tapestry Animation OnStar Advert Homework
Listening/Viewing/Reading/Perusing
"PowerPoint:
Killer App?" (Ruth Marcus, WaPo)
Nancy Duarte on Presentations (Clips 1-7, 30 min.) Nancy Duarte on Presentations (First 37 Minutes) Presentation Zen, pp 5-43 (Chapters 1-2) Also Review (Should Take About
30 min.)
"Storyboarding"
(AFI w/Sean Astin, 5 min.)
"History of Storyboarding" (Student Project, 7 min.) Storyboarding Bolt (Pixar, 1.5 min.) "Storyboards" (OSU) Spielberg on Storyboarding (AFI, 2.5 min.) "Storyboarding: 4-Minute Film School" (Indy Mogul, 4 min.) "How To Make a Storyboard" (Bunch of Kids, 2 min.) "Storyboarding Your Movie" (Eejit) "Storyboarding Your Movie" (Eejit) Owen Hill's Storyboard Gallery Indy Mogul Storyboard Template "Print Free Storyboards" (PDF Pad) "Storyboard Paper PDF Generator" (Incompetech) Other/Related/From Class
FD's Flickr Toys
"Life After Death By PowerPoint" (Don McMillan, 4 min.) "Chicken Chicken Chicken" (Doug Zongker, 4 min.) "The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation" (Peter Norvig) Duarte Design Homepage Slide:ology Homepage Slide:ology "Book Brief" (BNET) Duarte's Five Rules for Presentation Design (Explanation) "The Importance of Visual Storytelling" (Duarte) Speaking.Alltop.com AFI's "Screennation" Movie-Making Education Videos AFI "Screen Edcuation" PDF with Storyboarding Info 2.2: Slideware 2 Homework Reading
Presentation Zen,
pp 45-179 (Chapters 3-7)
Other/From Class
Garr Reynolds's Sample
Presentations @Slideshare
Gross "6x6" Slides Daniel Pink on Pecha Kucha Pecha Kucha.org Pecha Kucha Training Bite "Really Bad PowerPoint" (Seth Godin) "Educators
Question PowerPoint Usage" (NPR)
"PowerPoint Does Rocket Science" (Edward Tufte) "Stop Yr Presentation Before It Kills Again" (Kathy Sierra) Obama and Kennedy Bad (Fake) PowerPoints Power(Point) Ballad Prezi 2.3: Hypertext/Comics 1 Homework
Reading (Hypertext)
"Charmin'
Cleary" (E. Falco)
(Keep going! The set of Comics readings below is homework, too!) Homework
Reading (Comics/from McSweeney's)
"Preface" (Ira
Glass, 6-7)
"Introduction" (Chris Ware, 8-12) "Charles Schultz's Preliminary Drawings" (C. Ware, 66-71) Artist Comics by Ivan Brunetti (13, 118, 264) Wild Palms Review (Milt Gross, 42) "We'll Sleep in My Old Room" (C. Ware, 72-75) "ctrl" (Richard McGuire, 186-91) "Portrait of My Father" (David Heatley, 259-63) 2.4: Hypertext/Comics 2 Homework Reading (Comics/from
McSweeney's)
"Two Questions"
(Lynda Barry, 60-65)
"The Nightmare Studio" (Gary Panter, 100-4) "Strange Question" (Richard Sala, 121-26) "In the Shadow of No Towers" (Art Spiegleman, 129-35) from The Fixer (Joe Sacco, 142-50) "The Death of Thomas Scott" (Chester Brown, 154-70) "The Dead of Winter" (Debbie Drechsler, 208-13) from Clyde Fans (Seth, 221-31) PLUS: Explore "Four Derangements" Here (Daniel Merlin Goodbrey) 2.5: Hypertext/Comics 3 Homework
Reading (Hypertext)
"Hypertext and . . .
Visual Literacy" (Bolter@Bb)
Explore: "Twelve Blue" (M. Joyce) Explore: "The Jew's Daughter" (J. Morrisey) Explore: "Girl's Day Out" (Kerry Lawrynovicz) Other/Related/From Class
Eastgate
Reading Room
Eastgate's Hypertext-on-the-Web Links Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 "Inanimate Alice: Episode 1: China" (K. Pullinger/babel) "Girl's Day Out" (K. Lawrynovicz) "Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw" (D. Leishman) Donnie Darko Site JospehCornellBox.com Cornell Boxes at WebMuseum Judd Morrissey Michael Joyce 3.1: MLK Day. Stay Home. 3.2: Movies One Slideware + Essay Due Homework Reading
Yale Film
Analysis Site, Introduction and Sections 1-5,
Will Help You Complete Definitions Sheet (for Thursday). Don't forget: Movie screening tonight (Tuesday). Other/From Class
"Making
a Good Movie" (AFI w/Sean Astin)
"Weekend Extra: Shot Composition" (Indy Mogul) "Mise-en-Scene: 4-Minute Film School" (Indy Mogul) YouTube as a Reference Tool (NYT, 1/09) The "Grammar" of Film and Television (Daniel Chandler) Shot Types (Metacafe Production School) Shot Types (MediaCollege.com) "The Third and the Seventh" (Alex Roman) Dave Monahan at UNCW 3.3: Movies Two Required Screening
(Tuesday Night, 6:30-9:30)
The Royal Tenenbaums
Other
Celtx
Screenwriting and Pre-Production Software
AFI's ScreenNation Site AFI's Film Education Handbook (PDF) AFI ScreenNation Videos on Filmmaking Process Metacafe Production School Indy Mogul (Amateur Filmmaking Tips) Jane Espenson (On Writing for TV) MediaCollege.com Joss Whedon on Writer's Opportunities in New Media 3.4: Workshop 3.5: Online Journals, Online Art / Workshop (Watch for announcement re: how to approach these links.) Online Journals with
Strong Reputations
Diagram
Lamination Colony La Petite Zine Born Magazine Double Room Jacket Pif Failbetter The Iowa Review Web Not Exactly Literary
Journals, Worth a Look
3191
(Visual Blog, Leading to This Book)
Found Magazine (Found Objects) Post Secret (Participatory Art) The Book Inscription Project (Found/Participatory) Mortified (Found/Participatory) Where the Heck is Matt? (Quirky Video Phenom.) You Are Beautiful ('Net Enhanced Participatory Art) McSweeney's (Voice of the McSweeney's Set) Wikipedia Vision (Data Art) Flickr Vision (Data Art) Jonathan Harris's Projects (More Data Art) The Darth Side (Satire) Garfield Minus Garfield (Visual Blog) Baby Name Voyager (Data Art) The Black Cab Sessions (Low Budget Live Music) The Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 1 (Lots of It) Journalism and
Opinion
Adapting Literary
Works for the Web
Major,
Growing Collections of Literary (and Other) Stuff Online
Also of Note 4.1: TBA Digital Story Due 4.2: Final Essay Exam/Final Due Postscript: Other Links, Unsorted Everything is a Remix Bill Wolff's "Remixing Composition in the Writing Classroom" Technology: Poetry and New Media (Rick Stevens, Poetry.org) "Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization" (Clay Shirky) "Will Books Survive? A Scorecard..." (EiM) "100 Years of Big Content Fearing Technology" (Ars Technica) On Twitter Backchannels (Vincent Rhodes) "Flash Mob Gone Wrong" (Ignite Presentation by Tom Scott) "Ze Frank's Web Playroom" (TED) Text-Based Games on the Kindle Book Drum The Waste Land iPad App PechaFlickr | ||
