Digital Arts 2 (Course: ARTS 4126)
An online Wintermester course offered for 3 weeks - December 18, 2020- January 10, 2021
Instructor: Françoise Duressé-Stimilli
Transmedia storytelling is the technique of telling a story across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies. This course will focus on the concept: If Walls Could Talk and explore the question of what it means to inhabit a place/space. You will gather family and local stories in order to frame a location and/or understanding of the lived environment. The short assignments and final project will address and establish relationships between the architectural materials, their shapes, and those specific historical moments that defined them, thus allowing a new understanding of the studied spaces and the messages they carry for the lived environment.
Collecting family & friends' oral histories around the meaning of place, you will create an animation using Rotoscoping, an animation technique that traces frame-by-frame over motion picture footage, in this case, the interview footage (documentary diaristic-style video medium), to produce realistic action. You will also enhance the narrative by integrating creative backdrops and using traditional and non-traditional painting and drawing, sketches, and photographs as an imaginative device to revisit and reinvent the architectural spaces you have visualized in your oral histories.
The projects for this course will allow you to create with your hearts, think with your guts, and relate your work to the larger world. Ultimately, you will make work in response to the world you live in.
