DMA 102 - Digital Design and Storytelling

5 CR

Explores storytelling from oral and written traditions and those found in today’s visual and social media. Students will analyze stories, characters, narrative elements and themes and review visual media through the lens of story structure. Students will also develop stories, characters, and storyboards and learn processes for carrying a project from initial idea to completion.

Recommended: Recommended prerequisite or concurrent enrollment: DMA 100.
Course Outcomes

Describe storytelling across a range of times and cultures
Identify important developments in the history of narrative media
Describe the relationship between alternative, independent and mainstream media
Identify the elements of story and describe a variety of narrative structures
Recognize dramatic structure in a variety of media such as short story, feature length film, short film, documentary, feature length or short animation, public service announcements, commercials and games
Demonstrate the value of the storyboard as the intersection of story and visuals, and as a planning document
Recognize and demonstrate the process of designing media, including goal setting, identifying audience, information gathering, structuring, implementation and incorporating feedback

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