FILM 3820 - Visual Storytelling: New Media

5 credit hours
This class focuses on the historical changes which have led to cinema migrating to new platforms and technologies in the shift from analogue to digital, and from projected film to multiple, distributed screens. From nineteenth century panoramas and stereopticons to today’s Oculus Rift and other augmented and virtual reality devices, we will interrogate the concept of “new” media, from the remediation of older technologies to new networked platforms and modes of production, distribution and exhibition. Changing topics might include new technological forms of storytelling; augmented and virtual reality; transmedia storytelling; special effects; the relationship of cinema to other forms of media; hybrid media; 360 filmmaking and others. Meets Visual Storytelling requirement for Film majors. VS.