D3: Posting for clarity

On Wed May 2, your Journals containing the semester-long projects D4 & D5 are due. You MAY turn in the D3 write-up (and everything else) at this time.

Because of the nature of D3 you can have an extra week if you need it. The immediately following Wed May 9, your D3 is due by 4:00 pm and you can pick up your Journal (10a-4p at my UTD office in Jo.) or you may pick up your journal anytime (9-4:30 or by appointment) at my off-campus office at bridgebuilderacademy.com/map after that for the next few weeks until my summer UTD schedule is established. After that I'll keep them in the car till next semester so wherever I am, they are too.

As it says in the original assignment sheet, D3 SHOULD INCLUDE:

• A hard copy of the first person "postmortem" paper (which should reference where your "story" is posted in the document)
• An email to me with a link to where your story is posted (in which you might as well send me a soft copy of your paper too as "insurance")
• AND post the link to the blog below where applicable. (Most of you have already done so.)
• An email or disk or book or folder (etc.) with all of your brainstorming materials. (If this is in your journal then let me know when you turn your journal in and I'll be sure to take note of it at that time but be careful not to deny yourself the info while writing the postmortem paper!) Digital means I can archive it!

Questions? EMAIL ME asap.

See you next Wednesday for the last round of presentations!

Wk 14-15: D3 Presentations

PLEASE POST YOUR D3 IG CONTENT LINKS

AS COMMENTS HERE AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE.

(Do not post OOG or Meta content here, email me that instead.)

***Remember that the specifics for the critical self-analysis paper

(due by May 4th @ 7pm in my office) are still here.

D4/D5 Due by May 2nd @ 7pm in class.

Week 10: Theme and Tone

Also watched first half of "The Others" a great example of many things including In Medias Res (eventually), disrupted story (increasingly so), Plot structure (Yay, second viewing!), and of course dark themes of death and life and light and being trapped, and an overall tone of tense dark fear and, well... being trapped.

WK 9: New Media and the Future of Game Narratives

The videos shown in class on 3/28/11

Xbox 360 Games - E3 2012 - Guitar Hero: Metallica

And the presentation...

Cross-Media Presentation

And finally a little inspiration for those of you planning to do something with social networking tools: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1794889

WK 8: Choose Your Own Adventure

Have a great and safe spring break all - if you get bored, here is the link to the CYOA research study we looked at a few weeks ago.

**EDIT: The presentation NEXT WEEK with D2 is NOTHING FANCY - about 3 slides (if any) and you talking to us about the stuff you wrote in your paper. Everybody can have 10 minutes or so.**

http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/#/_

Wk 7: STORY ELEMENTS - Setting and PoV

I promised no more mention of LotR. I lied.

More than 15 years ago Russian scientist Kirill Yeskov tried to settle certain geographical problems in Tolkien's fantasy world. One thing led to another, and he tackled a bigger project - what if we assumed that it's no less real than our world? His conclusion was that in such a case, the story of the Ring of Power is most likely a much-altered heroic retelling of a major war - but what was that war really about? The result of this re-appraisal was the publication in 1999 of "The Last Ring-bearer" - a re-thinking of Tolkien's story in real-world terms. Which has now been translated (however roughly) into English by livejournal user "ymarkov": http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/270570.html. Tolkien would have hated or loved this - hard to know which. Have a look and comment here!

Week 6: STORY MODEL - NON-LINEAR

I encourage all of you to key in to the examples those we use for the class, get them for your library or simply watch them through, and find similar titles through meta-data on sites like Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, IMDB, and so forth if you are not already doing so. This landscape is changing! Much like the music genome project has created Pandora, various "movie genome" projects are now emerging and as the filters get better and the crowds contribute content the data will likely merge and a victor will more than likely emerge. Find them and post them here!