ACD 101 - Digital Storytelling and Scriptwriting

5 Credits

Students will learn to take ideas from concept to pre-production storyboard and script. Audience analysis to understand the impact of, and to best reach, diverse global audiences will be covered. Students will study writing styles, methods of organizing multimedia designs, scripts, copyright law and intellectual property. Leveraging social and collaborative media will be addressed as well.

FeesAcademic Technology Fee

Quarters Typically Offered

Designed to Serve Animation and Character Design students, Multimedia Design students, Fine Art students, anyone interested in learning Digital Storytelling and Scriptwriting
Active Date 20260416T10:51:42

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Shared Learning Environment Yes
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes

Course Outline

Audience and user analysis
Global audiences/diversity in audiences
Analyzing goals of a multimedia production
Fostering interactivity
Conceptual designs of multimedia products
Writing content for interactive media
Leveraging social/collaborative media

Student Learning Outcomes
Explain the impact of audience and social media on a production.

Develop linear and nonlinear stories, incorporating techniques for fostering interactivity.

Create storyboards and scripts for use in shoots and web site content development.

Analyze client ideas and goals and translate them into pre-production documentation.