Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling
When communicating complex ideas, narrative is everything. This course is ideal for professionals of any sector who want to craft compelling digital stories that can convincingly communicate the progress of a project or venture, and better persuade stakeholders. Create a story arc for a targeted audience; Drawing on your own…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
When communicating complex ideas, narrative is everything. This course is ideal for professionals of any sector who want to craft compelling digital stories that can convincingly communicate the progress of a project or venture, and better persuade stakeholders. Create a story arc for a targeted audience; Drawing on your own professional context, learn how to drive key messages targeted at specialised audiences or stakeholders. Consider how story arcs and characters can be used as persuasive devices. Use creative choices to support key messages: Examine the aesthetics of documentary filmmaking and consider how sound and visuals are used to communicate key messages. Define your own story world and create a storyboard that outlines a narrative. Experiment with new media and creative tools: Engage with different aspects of the filmmaking process, including ideas generation, scriptwriting, editing and curatorship. Experiment with music compositions and soundscapes and create rough-cut footage. Produce a proposal for a creative project; Prepare a project plan and budget for a hypothetical documentary, report or short series to demonstrate you can persuasively communicate a digital story to a specialist audience.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this Melbourne MicroCert, you’ll have a greater understanding of how to make creative choices to persuade an audience. You’ll be able to: Clearly articulate a story arc including key messages for a specialist audience; Demonstrate creative and contemporary aesthetic choices outlined through script, sketches and storyboards, music compositions and soundscapes, which reinforce key messages demonstrated through a range of genre; Understand technologies and new media used for documentaries; Prepare a project plan and budget for a documentary or short series.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
