Interactive Media Project Major 2

This week will continue with the proposal seminars.

This week students will make initial concept presentations for their major projects.

The supporting proposal documentation will be due in week 7.

This week we will follow up on the exercise that was set in the last class. We will examine and discuss the listed sites in terms of the questions that were posed regarding interface and interactive structure.

http://www.ony.ru/en/#/obrand/
http://www.luminalive.sg/v2/index.php
http://www.pencilrebel.com/
http://www.thesecretlocation.com/
http://www.msichicago.org/fileadmin/Activities/Games/simple_machines/
http://www.ovaldesign.com.hk/
http://ecodazoo.com/

We will also look at ideas surrounding interactive narrative as outlined in the reading Interactive Narrative & Linear Narrative by Timothy Garrand. To view the lecture presentation click here. Taking this idea of interactive narrative as a starting point we will examine a diverse range of projects that use narrative as a vital component. We will consider how narrative is employed as a structural and/or conceptual imperative in these projects:

ten trippy interactive narratives, come on down the rabbit hole
Remembering Boogle Chandler
99 Rooms
6168.org
The Inanimate Alice
http://www.belgia.ru/
Sin Strip of Calmut City
Blended Views
Interactive Narratives – The Best of Multimedia Storytelling and Multimedia Journalism
Your Life Our Movie
The JavaMuseum – Extasy
The Tulse Luper Journey

Ben Laposky: Oscillation Number Four - Electronic Abstraction, 1950.

This week your project idea briefs are due. During class time today I will speak to each of you individually  to discuss your ideas in preparation for the upcoming proposal presentation.

In class we will also look at Dominic Stansberry’s chapter titled Interactivity. We will consider some of the ideas surrounding the concept of interactivity and in particular its relationship to structure and experience. As part of this exploration you will work in groups to explore a range of recent web based projects to examine the way that interface functions in relation to both content and experience. The outline for this class exercise can be downloaded here.

In week 7 you are asked to submit a fully developed proposal document that will outline your project for this semester in detail. An outline of exactly what this document should contain can be downloaded from here.

Relevant Readings:

Dominic Stansberry, “Interactivity”, Labyrinths: the art of interactive writing and design. *

Thomas D Erickson, “Working with Interface Metaphors”, The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Brenda Laurel ed. *

During class you will work in groups to examine an interactive project selected from the film sites listed in the hi-res archive:

http://archive.hi-res.net/

The findings of your investigation will then be presented to the class group in a brief presentation and posted in the comments section of this post.

The detailed guidelines for this exercise can be downloaded as a PDF file from here.

In this class we will begin the process of concept development for your major project. We will start by looking at a couple of course readings:

Dominic Stansberry, The Design Process in Interactive Media

Brian Blum, Guidelines for Interactive Media *

The complete texts are available as PDFs via the library website here:

http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au/search/r?SEARCH=mmde+5002

To view flash-based presentations of each text here:

Stansberry

Blum

In this unit you will learn the processes associated with the design, development and implementation of new media applications that explore the relationship between narrative and interactivity. You will develop a major project that can be a CD-ROM, information kiosk, interactive screen-based installation or web based work. During this semester we will examine a range of approaches to interactive authoring including models of visual communication and the principles of effective screen design for multimedia. Within this subject students are encouraged to critically engage with the implementation of media and interactivity in relation to the multimedia experience. In addition to your project you will also to produce a set of professional standard pre-production documents as well as a final dossier that documents the development and implementation of their major project.

Due Dates:

• 24 August, Week 5 – Proposal seminar, presentation of ideas and research for major project in class.

• 7 September, Week 7 – Proposal  document due.

• 19 October, Week 12 – Major Project, final draft presentation to class.

• week starting 8 November (date TBC), Week 15 – Major project due.

Course Documents

You can download all the initial course documents as a single zip file from here, or you can download them each separately from the links menu.

To download a zipped fla file of a simple presentation made in Flash click here