Week 6
The interactive/computational documentary
CLASS ACTIVITIES
- Discussion on Read/Watch/Play/Explore materials due today
- Work on your own Interactive Non-Fiction Storytelling projects (as time allows)
- Gameplay from Games for Actors and Non-Actors (as time allows)
- Games, Design and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design, Part II (Chapters 5-8)
- Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice, read the Introduction: Documentary Ecologies and Histories and Chapter 6: Working Principles, by Patricia R. Zimmerman and Helen De Michiel (note that this book is available as a McHenry Library e-book)
- Browse the MIT Open Documentary Docubase. Specifically, browse the Projects (you may also choose to browse People and Tools) in the database. There are hundreds of projects listed, so I just want you to browse the list in order to get a sense of the breadth and scope of what MIT frames as projects "transforming documentary in the digital age." (A couple of the projects on the list are assigned for close viewing due next week. Also, Use of Force (a project Poremba discussed) is in the database, so take a look at it.)
- A ten-minute presentation of your Interactive Non-Fiction Storytelling work in-progress.
- Friendly reminder: From now and until the end of the quarter, come to class fully prepared to work on your Interactive Non-Fiction Storytelling project.
