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4MEST001W Storytelling: Photography & Web Media

ASSESSMENT 2: Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project

(70% of the marks for the module)

Deadlines

Statement of Intent for Group Project (formative)*	Tuesday 29th October 2024 at 17:00
Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project (including documentation)	Tuesday 9th January 2025 at 13:00

*ee template at the end of this document

Module Theme - Narrative and Storytelling

This a two-part project, which explores forms of narrative and storytelling across different forms of media. The aims of the project are:

•    To explore linear, non-linear, and interactive storytelling.

•    To develop research skills to support practical work.

•    To support you in developing skills in photography, web media, image post-production and interactive techniques.

•    To learn how to document and reflect upon practical work, including critically analysing your outcomes.

•    To understand the role of image and other forms of media, as well as visual communication techniques to support visual and interactive storytelling.

•    To develop group working skills.

•    To understand and learn from feedback (and to respond where appropriate).

PART ONE: INDIVIDUAL PROJECT - NARRATIVE THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY

This is an individual project and you are required to explore and produce a piece of photographic work. This might be through a sequence of images (for example a photo essay or documentary project) with a linear narrative, or you might choose to create a more abstract or non-linear narrative through the use of visual composition, semiotics, colour, and/or through image and text.

Your outcome may be in the form. of a book, or a mock-up for an exhibition, and submitted in a PDF format.

PART TWO: GROUP PROJECT - THE INTERACTIVE STORY

This is a group project in which you will work in a group of 2-4, to produce a single web-based visual essay in an interactive narrative form.

A visual essay is a piece of work that brings together different forms of media to communicate ideas in visual and verbal language. It may contain written/textual elements, integrated with visual and other digital media in the form. of photography, moving image, illustration, sound and animation. This project must include some original still or moving images from the work of the group on this module.  This might be work from during your practical sessions or you might choose to create the work independently specifically to support the project.

Your project should exploit the capabilities of the web in a creative manner, utilising interactivity, hyperlinks, scrolling, responsive animations and visual communication techniques to engage the audience. You should use the photography and visual skills learnt in practical classes to support your narrative. Your website should link to the aspects of the theory taught within the module, either in approach or dealing with one of the topics explicitly. You could, for example:

•    Tell a story (which could be real from personal experience, or fictional)

•    Argue a claim

•    Explain a text

•    Illustrate a concept or problem

BOTH PROJECTS HAVE SEVERAL STAGES:

Stage one: Research

As a group and individually, research some of the ideas introduced during the lecture series of the module, identify your topic and begin to plan and collect material that you  might use within the finished pieces

Stage two: Proposal and review

For the Interactive Story, in week 7 your group will submit a proposal for your project and gain feedback from tutors and peers. In week 7 you will also be presenting some of your images for review for the individual project.

Stage three: Development and Completion

Your group will complete the project after week 6. Each group member should be contributing to the creation of the project, and this should be clearly identified. Work in progress (which should be close to completion) will be presented in a formative crit session in the final week of term. Changes to the final piece may be made following this feedback ready for submission in January 2023.

PART THREE: INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTATION: DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO

Each student will additionally produce an individual development portfolio submitted as a pdf file, containing their background research for the projects, project development documentation and work from practical sessions in web media and photography. You should be documenting the process throughout the module, either in the form. of notes or images, screen captures, websites, for example, and should include this in the portfolio.

This should contain:

•    Your statement of intent, submitted on the 29/10 (see information below)

•    Ideas from brainstorming sessions

•    Visual research

•    Background research – literature, gallery visits, web sources etc

•    Notes and practical outcomes from practical sessions (both web media and photography)

•    Project planning and development

•    Reflection on the process, particularly the group collaboration, and the final outcome.

•    If you are not sure which group number is allocated to your web media project group, please see the list of groups below.

Submission: There  are  two  practical  components  AND  the  development  portfolio  which  all contribute to the final mark.

The work should be submitted as follows through the link published on Blackboard.

PDF document with your final photography series (the  requirements  for  your  final photography project can  be found  under ‘Part One:  Individual  Project  –  Narrative Through Photography’ section of the ICMP Project Brief below)

•    Make  sure  that  your  PDF  includes  your  full  name  and  module  code  (4MEST001W) somewhere in the document.

PDF document with your individual documentation

•    The PDF should include all documentation for your practical work during the ICMP module. Details on what you need to include in documentation can be found under ‘Part Three: Individual Documentation: Development Portfolio’ section of the ICMP Project Brief below.

All PDFs should include your name and your student ID and the title of the work. On the group project, include a link to the final web page and a list of the group members and their roles.

STATEMENT OF INTENT FOR GROUP PROJECT - Template

This work is formative, and we should receive one per person, although it may contain the same information as the rest of your group members.

To be included, on no more than two pages:

Working Title
Group Members (and their roles, if defined)
Brief overview of story
Background research Links, screenshots, ideas, mind maps, examples of other websites, artists, etc
Timeline Project stages and Activities