MOBILE STORYTELLING
MIN2MOB
2020
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Mobile Storytelling introduces students to a new mobile content creation medium, where smartphone tools and literacies enable them to create and publish cross-platform broadcast-quality video stories. Using their smartphone as a new digital pen, students develop, research, write, produce and publish user-generated stories (UGS). These skills are indispensable in the convergent workflows currently driving production online, in news, TV, advertising, public relations and across community and education sectors. Moreover we explore the impact of smart technologies on global connectivity and discuss their value as change agents for promoting civic-minded ideals and a sustainable democratic public sphere. This practical unit develops the skills introduced in MIN1MME and introduces program making concepts further developed in MIN3PDM. The skills define a new field of hand-held communication that addresses commercial imperatives and La Trobe's Global Citizenship Essential, an appreciation of how we live and work in an interconnected world, across cultures and borders and with diverse communities, now and in the future.
SchoolHumanities and Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorIvo Burum
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 2 - UG
Available as ElectiveNo
Learning ActivitiesN/A
Capstone subjectNo
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites 60 credit points of level one subjects or coordinators approval
Co-requisitesN/A
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Quota Management StrategyN/A
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Minimum credit point requirementN/A
Assumed knowledgeN/A
Readings
Mojo - the mobile journalism handbook
Resource TypeBook
Resource RequirementRecommended
AuthorBurum, Ivo and Quinn, S
Year2015
Edition/VolumeN/A
PublisherRoutledge
ISBNN/A
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Career Ready
Career-focusedNo
Work-based learningNo
Self sourced or Uni sourcedN/A
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Total hours/days requiredN/A
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Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 2, Day
Overview
Online enrolmentYes
Maximum enrolment sizeN/A
Subject Instance Co-ordinatorIvo Burum
Class requirements
Lecture
Week:
31
-
43
One 1.00 h lecture per week
on weekdays
during the day
from week 31 to week 43
and delivered via face-to-face.
Tutorial
Week:
31
-
43
One 2.00 h tutorial per week
on weekdays
during the day
from week 31 to week 43
and delivered via face-to-face.
Assessments
| Assessment element | Category | Contribution | Hurdle | % | ILO* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Student will create a synopsis and a brief for Ass 2 (1200 word equiv) We will assess the ability to critically evaluate a concept and develop a synopsis and outline (one line, one par, one page) that includes an analysis of the story, characters, structure, content. legal and production parameters. | N/A | N/A | No | 30 | SILO1, SILO2 |
| Assessment 2: Produce a mobile story based on the synopsis (1200 word equiv) We will asses an ability to develop the synopsis into a story, use equipment to produce edit and publish that story and in doing so, assess their comprehension of the various | N/A | N/A | No | 30 | SILO1, SILO3, SILO4, SILO5 |
| Assessment 3: Work with group to develop & produce a series of stories around a theme (1600 word equiv) Assessing the ability to work individually and with a group to utilise skills learned in Ass 1 and 2 to produce a series of thematically linked stories. | N/A | N/A | No | 40 | SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4, SILO5 |