Today’s Class Tasks

• Blog post audit – how many done? Start catching up if necessary.
• If up to date, make your way through the Gambarato reading. Make notes, discuss, blog your understanding of what Gambarato’s point is, what his understanding of transmedia storytelling is. How does this relate to what we’ve discussed thus far? Can you think of some ways in which your own projects might work within Gambarato’s understanding of TM storytelling? (1 hour, then discussion in final 30 mins of class)
• Are any projects releasing stuff yet? Is there anything anyone would like to show? (if this is you, send links to Dan!)
• Continue project work, only if all done, and up to date.

Exhibition

11 June, 10am-5pm

Once again, this is a compulsory day. If you cannot make it for any reason you must let me know in writing immediately. Note that even such notice will be a ‘request’, like a leave request at work, and may be denied, as I’ll have to discuss this with the Program Manager. Supporting documentation will help. We’ll then need to discuss your contributions outside the day itself.

Couple of things to think about:

• Each studio is given 20 minutes to present to the full Media cohort: What this presentation entails is entirely up to you guys, but it should give some sense of your journey through the Story Lab, what was covered, what was learned, what kind of projects you’re doing, and so on
• Further, each studio will be given half a cross-discipline room to exhibit their projects. Again, how this is done is largely up to you, but I’ll be slightly more involved with this, in terms of technical stuff and layout… the plan at this stage is to bump in Weds afternoon 10/6, and bump out after the exhibition day concludes 11/6
• Studio leaders will be pitching their studios for Semester 2 — the ballot will also be open for 4-5 days from 11-15 June, where Media 3 folks can select your three preferences for Media 4

This is all just a heads-up, keep working on projects for now, but I’ve set aside Week 11 for a big chat about all this, to get all the planning out of the road, so you guys can focus on your projects as much as possible outside of class.

Project Updates

In Week 11, I’d like to hear from each group on progress since the pitch. Have a chat within your groups about getting something together to show the class, take down some notes on what’s been achieved, what has yet to be done, what directions the project has taken, etc etc