Digital Storytelling
Course Level Undergraduate
Area/Catalogue
COMM 2071
Course Level
Undergraduate
Offered Externally
No
Course ID
101733
Unit Value
4.5
University-wide elective course
No
Timetable/s
This class has not been
timetabled for year 2024.
Course owner
School of Creative Industries
Course Alert: This course is no longer available for enrolment
Course aim
To extend students' creative and critical writing skills by developing their understanding of multi-modal texts, their place within the techniques of creativity and representation, and how they may be produced.
Course content
Students will devise, draft and edit short scripts, learning the principles of storyboarding, the rhetoric of multi-modal texts, the use of creativity as re-presentation, and the interactions between performance and identity. Students will then demonstrate their understanding of these skills through the creation of multimodal texts using basic software applications.
Textbook(s)
Nil
Prerequisite(s)
Completion of three courses within the Writing and Creative Communication Professional Major or by approval of the course coordinator
Corequisite(s)
Nil
Teaching method
| Component | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERNAL, MAGILL (INTENSIVE) | |||
| Tutorial (Intensive tutorials) | 4 hours x 2 days | ||
| Workshop (Group activities involving in-class and online work) | 8 hours x 1 day | ||
| INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, TAYLOR'S BUSINESS SCHOOL | |||
| Lecture | 2 hours x 13 weeks | ||
| Tutorial | 2 hours x 13 weeks | ||
| INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | |||
| Workshop (Intensive workshops) | 4 hours x 2 days | ||
| Workshop (Intensive workshops) | 8 hours x 1 day | ||
| INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, KAPLAN HIGHER EDUCATION - SINGAPORE | |||
| Workshop (Intensive workshops) | 4 hours x 2 days | ||
| Workshop (Intensive workshops) | 8 hours x 1 day | ||
| INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HELP COLLEGE OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY | |||
| Lecture | 2 hours x 13 weeks | ||
| Tutorial | 2 hours x 13 weeks | ||
Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.
Assessment
Draft script/storyboard, First multi-modal production, Second multi-modal production
Fees
EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4A)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.
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