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Mobile Storytelling
Undergraduate | LTU-MIN2MOB | 2022
Course information for 2022 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Mobile Storytelling
About this subject
1. Distinguish and choose between the varied uses of smartphones and their impact on visual media used in journalism and citizen journalism.
2. Evaluate existing mobile video stories including those created around news and civic minded ideals, for their structural, editorial, content, style, genre and quality and technical components, to define styles and language.
3. Use mobile tools and associated apps to record appropriate video and audio shots, sequences for use in broadcast quality user generated stories.
4. Plan, write and narrate basic visuals and audio grabs according to a structured script to tell the video story.
5. Edit, post-produce and publish mobile user generated stories with a commercial and when required a local civic minded focus across various mobile and legacy workflows.
- • Defining a mobile ecosphere
- • Developing mobile stories
- • Recording mobile video
- • Recording mobile audio
- • Writing mobile stories
- • Editing on a mobile
- • Staying legally healthy
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. The skills define a new field of hand-held communication that addresses commercial imperatives.
- Reflect on Arab Spring; create a brief for Ass 2 (1200 word equiv) We assess ability to critically evaluate a concept & develop a synopsis & outline that includes an analysis of the story, characters, structure, content. legal & production parameters. (30%)
- Produce a mobile story based on a synopsis/brief (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 (30%)
- 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. (40%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Prerequisites: Students must have completed 60 credit points of Level one subjects.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
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