Daniel O’Sullivan

Have you you ever seen a movie set take over several city blocks with trucks and trailers, tents and a crew of one hundred. Even in movies that rely more on special effects than location shooting you can see thousands of names roll by in the credits. Who can afford to tell stories that way? How can you interact with stories made that way? This course will look at how tools like the kinect camera, panoramic video, and XML transmission might allow people to sketch stories out of parts that are more easily composed, reconfigured and shared. The goal is not seamless special effects
but rather the rough juxtapositions in the tradition of comics or storyboarding. Using these traditions as templates we will look at the dramatic parts of a story in addition to the audio visual parts. Stories in a living storyboard that can be created by anyone, evolve and intersect with others may never need to be made into a more finished movie. This class will draw on ideas coming out of ITP’s “Consumer Light and Magic” research project so students will be expected to have a pioneering attitude. Student will have assignment to gather compose and distributes parts of a story. Examples will mostly be in javascript with Unity being a viable alternative
platform. ICM is a prerequisite and the Comics class might make an interesting compliment.