Special Topics in Advanced Theatre Studies (340-0-21)

Topic

Digital Storytelling

Instructors

Danielle Bainbridge

Meeting Info

Wirtz 235 Seminar Room 1: Mon, Wed 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

The state of storytelling in the digital age is constantly evolving. As new platforms, genres and mediums emerge, digital storytelling has gone from a small component of the content we consume to a major player in the ways that we view new material. As we continue to adapt to the era of digital storytelling, as creators we have to ask ourselves important questions, such as:

What is digital storytelling?
How does it relate to other forms of traditional media (namely fiction, nonfiction, theatre and film making)?
And what tools does it offer us as storytellers that differ from other forms of traditional media?

This course will help students to evaluate and create different types of digital storytelling. Building on the skills acquired throughout the theatre major (storytelling, creative writing, and performance), the digital storytelling class would ask undergraduates to design and create their own online stories using different types of media (e.g. video essays, podcasts, social media ‘stories', etc). Students would spend the first half of the quarter looking at examples of projects that interweave digital media and theatre, and the second half of the quarter designing, writing, and creating their own projects. By the end of the quarter students will have designed, written and created their own original digital storytelling project on a subject of their choosing.

Class Materials (Required)

$50-75