Second Class

Today we started the class with watching an episode of Seinfeld called "The Marine Biologist." After watching it we went through and worked out where story lines and characters were introduced and set up. Then we looked through the whole episode and worked out the setting for the rest of the story.
Then we talked a bit about half life and started writing down ideas for our stories.

First Class

Today was the first class of "writing for multimedia." We met Stefan, who is our teacher, and he explained what the class would involve and the briefs that we would be doing in the next 14 weeks. Stefan explained how the first 5 weeks would be about story writing and learning how to develop a story. This is an important part of the brief as later on we would be writing a story and creating it on a virtual 3D world called Second Life. Our stories would have to include other members of the class who would come visit our character. The story is to be situated in an apartment block. The rest of the course will then be dedicated to creating this virtual world and making it into a machinima movie. After explaining this we went on to doing a brainstorm about multimedia and concluded the class with a series of written exercises. The purpose of these exercises was to get us to understand how to get ideas for stories and make us really think about what we were writing. Overall the first class was interesting and I’m looking forward to starting the brief.