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Formats:
Live Online
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Duration:
36 hours
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Registration Fee:
$450
Start Date
Overview
Our storytelling course assists students with new and emerging platforms such as video games, virtual reality and internet or mobile apps by exploring how storytelling allows us to make connections. Students will learn fundamental concepts related to interactive storytelling, such as the structure of interactive digital narratives from multiple genres, and the practical applications of utilizing storytelling techniques.
Course Prerequisites
None. However, previous experience in networking, OS administration or virtualization is an asset.
Topics Covered
This course looks at the development, production, and use of digital stories. Digital stories are used in social media, networking, VR, AR and other emerging technologies. This storytelling course will explore convergent communication technologies, particularly consumer-grade technologies such as those in smartphones and tablets. The widespread use of these technologies means that new writing and producing skills and techniques are necessary to adapt to computer screen conventions and other parameters of these new media forms. The course has a practical component, which will encourage the production of new forms of narrative through exercises and the use of skills developed in class.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
- Demonstrate developed knowledge of the principles and concepts of framing, sound, composition, visual storytelling, digital storytelling, and culture
- Showcase a sense of aesthetics and skills in communicating through both static and moving images
- Display creativity and originality in effectively developing and managing a visual story production
- Demonstrate critical thinking around interactive digital storytelling, online media production, and the social and cultural media environment
- Develop linear and nonlinear digital stories
Instructor*
Brittany Campbell
Brittany Chung Campbell comes to Ashton College with an extensive background in storytelling using various forms of media. As a book editor and self-publishing consultant based in Toronto, Ontario, her goal is to teach storytellers how to turn their ideas into a compelling story that builds communities. After her graduation, Brittany interned at CTV.ca and became obsessed with digital storytelling. Since then, she has worked as a corporate copywriter across many different industries, performs at storytelling events, has been published in anthologies and has transitioned into entrepreneurship by helping writers become authors.
*Subject to change without notice
Who Will Benefit From The Course
This course provides additional, supplemental training for those already in careers working with development, production, and use of digital stories.
Dates
Live Online
Part Time:
- July 07, 2021 – September 22, 2021
- Students must devote at least 3 hours per week to attend live webinars
- Webinars will be held on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 8:00 pm PST
- Outside of live instructional periods, students will be expected to take part in various independent and/or group activities
Fees
The registration fee for this course is $450.
Technical Requirements
Live Online Students
Ashton College uses web conferencing tools to help instructors and students connect and collaborate live online. For the online classes, students need to have a fully functional computer system with a webcam, speakers and microphone or headset and headphones, along with a reliable high-speed internet connection. Though the classes can be accessed using smartphones and tablets, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer for a better learning experience.
This course does not require approval by the Private Training Institutions Branch of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training. As such, it was not reviewed.
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