During the second year of my Masters of Digital Media (Sept. 2010 - April 2011), I worked as the teacher's assistant (TA) for the Visual Story course for George Johnson. My degree in film theory and 9 years of video game reporting made me a strong fit for this course, which examines storytelling techniques in popular films and adapts them to the world of video games for inspiring video game designers. Averaging 10 hours a week, my duties included assistance with lesson preparation and tech support for the instructor, and project guidance for 25 first-year graduate students.
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This is a student project from the Animation in a Digital World class in my Masters of Digital Media program. Classmate Jordan Braun and I worked on creating a tilt-shift short video based loosely around our individual daily commutes. We shot all footage in digital video, batch processed in Photoshop CS4 for tilt-shift, and only kept every fourth frame to give it a stop-motion feel. Bon Voyage. (Tilt-Shift) from jordanbraun on Vimeo.
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Courtesy of project lead and team mate Al Sinoy, you can play 7 Days here. Or you can view the trailer for it here. The Project The first assignment for our Visual Story class required us to make an interactive photo-film. We had to pick a strong image and then storyboard a number of narrative lines that all used that one image. We decide to build a storyline around the idea of a man dangling from a ledge, being held onto by another man who could determine his fate. We then weave this into a storyline that involves a supposed love triangle between three central characters, good friends Dave and Mike, and Dave’s wife Mia. My Role On 7 Days, I played the role of Head Writer, fleshing out a multi-strand, cohesive narrative. I also acted in the production as the husband Dave, created a production blog for our group over at...
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