Week 1

Pre-Class Ruminations:

McKee, Robert. (1997). ‘The Substance of Story.’ In Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting. New York, USA: HarperCollins, pp. 135-154. (in Resources folder on Blackboard)

Stanton, Andrew (2012). ‘The clues to a great story.’ TED.com. http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_stanton_the_clues_to_a_great_story [language warning]

Phillips, Andrea. (2012). ‘What is transmedia, anyway?’ In A creator’s guide to transmedia storytelling. New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, pp. 13-20. (in Resources folder on Blackboard)

WNYC, NPR. RadioLab, Season 4, Episode 3: The War of the Worlds [podcast]. http://www.radiolab.org/story/91622-war-of-the-worlds/

In-Class Wanderings:

Welles, Orson. (October 30, 1938). The War of the Worlds [radio broadcast].

Whale, James (director). (1930). Frankenstein [film]. – opening 20 mins.


Week 2

Pre-Class Perspectives:

Manovich, Lev. (2001). ‘The database.’ In The language of new media. Cambridge, USA: The MIT Press, pp. 218-243. (in Resources folder on Blackboard)

Giovagnoli, Max. (2011). ‘Chapter 2: Plan Transmedia.’ In Transmedia Storytelling: Imagery, shapes and techniques, pp. 34-54. Halifax, Canada: ETC Press. (in Resources folder on Blackboard)

Navas, Eduardo. (August 13, 2010). ‘Regressive and reflexive mashups in sampling culture, 2010 Revision.’ Remix Theory, http://remixtheory.net/?p=444

In-Class Excursions:

Why So Serious? Advertising campaign for The Dark Knight (2008). (Google and go!)

Ferguson, Kirby. Everything is a Remix (web series), http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/

Fosselius, Ernie. (1978). Hardware Wars [short film]. Pyramid Films.

Wieber, Ryan, & Scott, Michael. (2007). Ryan vs Dorkman 2 [short film]. Blinding Light Productions.


Week 3

Pre-Class Perambulations:

Jenkins, Henry. (2006). ‘Searching for the origami unicorn.’ In Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York, USA: New York University Press. (in Resources folder on Blackboard)

Eco, Umberto. (1985). “Casablanca”: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage. SubStance, 14(2), pp. 3-12. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/stable/3685047 (login required)

Murray, Janet H. (1997). ‘Chapter 5: Agency.’ In Hamlet on the Holodeck. Cambridge, USA: The MIT Press. (in Resources folder on Blackboard)

In-Class Enquiries:

Watanabe, Shinichiro. (2003). The Animatrix: Detective Story [short film].

Maeda, Mahiro. (2003).The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance, Parts I + II [short films].


 

Week 4

Pre-Class Prospecting:

Whitehouse, Kendall. (2012, May 7). ‘Media marketing and the evolution of narrative structure.’ On technology and media. Available online.

Waxman, Sharon. (2007, June 18). ‘Marvel wants to flex its own heroic muscles as a moviemaker.’ New York Times. Available via Library e-Reserve (login required).

Andersen, Michael. (2011, March 30). ‘Cautionary tales in transmedia storytelling.’ Wired. Available via Library e-Reserve (login required).

In-Class Investigations:

Introduction to Peggy Carter in Johnston, Joe (Director), (2011). Captain America: The First Avenger. [15 mins]

D’Esposito, Louis. (Director), (2013). ‘Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter’ [short film]. [15 mins]

D’Esposito, Louis. (Director), (2015). Agent Carter, Episode 1: ‘Now is Not The End’.  [42 mins]


Week 5

Pre-Class Portholes:

Day, Felicia. (2009, May 14). ‘Web Series: Four things to ask yourself before starting.’ FeliciaDay.com.

Starting from… Now! Press materials.

In-Class In-Roads:

Kalceff, Julie. (2014). Starting from… Now! [web series]. Episodes 1 + 2. [language/thematic warning]


Week 6

Urban Codemakers. Archive.

Innocent, T. (2013). Code switching in mixed realities. In Cleland, K., Fisher, L., & Harley, R. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art, ISEA2013, Sydney. (in Resources folder on Blackboard)

noemaflux Video.


 

Week 9

 

Gambarato, Renira R. (2012). Signs, Systems and Complexity of Transmedia Storytelling. Estudos em Comunicao, 12, pp. 69-83. (in Resources folder on Blackboard)

Screening: TBC, possibly Tykwer’s Run Lola Run.