COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBS 3127 DIGITAL STORYTELLING ELECTIVE 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Film Design and Screenwriting

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SAVAŞ ARSLAN

Offered to

Carpet - Rugs and Old Fabric Patterns
Sound Editing and Cinematography
Play Writing - Dramaturgy
Performance Arts
Accessory Design
Carpet, Rug and Traditional Fabric Designs
Stage Design
Animation Film Design and Directing
Ceramic and Glass Design
Music Sciences
Film Design and Directing
Musicology
Art of Illumination
Film Design and Directing
Illustration and Printmaking
Sculpture
Photography
Fashion Apparel Design
Tile Design and Restoration
Art of Calligraphy
Painting
Cartoon Film and Animation
Textile Design
Ancient Turkish Calligraphy
Film Design and Screenwriting
Restorations of Ancient Tile
Graphic Design
Film Design and Screenwriting
Ceramic and Glass
Dramatic Writing and Dramaturgy
Music Technology
Graphic Arts

Course Objective

Digital storytelling involves novel and short digital media productions that tell stories with continuously changing and updated by digital technologies. In addition to classical media such as film, sound, photography and drawing, virtual and electronic media are also utilized. In this course, as a practice which is concurrent with the dawn of humanity, storytelling will be exemplified through its contemporary Web-based, interactive, hypertextual, video game, social media or IPTV-based examples and the production of content will be kept up to date with current developments.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, student will be expected to have a knowledge of the following: 1. What digital storytelling practice is, 2. What the basics of digital storytelling are, 3. The well-known and contemporary digital storytelling examples, 4. The ways of experiencing the production of digital content production, and 5. The modes of production and reception of such practices.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1 Introduction to Digital Storytelling and Syllabus 2 Video Storytelling 3 Audio Storytelling 4 Image Storytelling 5 Drawing Storytelling 6 Web-based Storytelling 7 Games and Story 8 Games and Film 9 Interactive Storytelling 10 Social Media Stories 11 Short Stories on Platforms 12 Episodic Stories on Platforms 13 New Arts 14 The Futures of Story

Recomended or Required Reading

Main sources:
Transmedya Hikayeciliği. 2018. Der. Ercan Aktan. Istanbul: Literatürk Academia.
Yardımcı Kaynaklar:
Dena, Christy. 2009. Transmedia Practice. Doctoral Thesis, University of Sydney.
Rose, Frank. 2011. The Art of Immersion: Digital Generation Remaking Hollywood. NY: Norton.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face-to-face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ATT ATTENDANCE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + ATT * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + ATT * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparing assignments 13 4 52
Midterm 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 95

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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