When it comes to climate change, election, or coronavirus spread, telling a story through words can be limited. We need visuals like maps, data visualization, or photography to understand complex and hard to grasp information. Visual journalism is a way of telling stories through visuals. Due to the development of computation and technology, there has been a big improvement in visual journalism. Large amounts of data can be rendered on a screen. Readers can experience a story through AR or VR. Games can be used to deliver complicated investigative stories. The goal of this class is to learn how to tell engaging and easier to understand stories through visuals. We will go over the best practices of visual journalism and learn its way of storytelling. We’ll look at how it’s produced. Work process, most frequently used tools and coding materials will be shared. This class will also focus on how to tell stories right. Many things should be considered when telling stories through visuals. Data can be biased. Visualization can be incorrect or misleading. Texts might not be referenced. We’re going to learn how these are carefully addressed in various visual stories. Stories start with a question. Students will bring their own questions and be helped to answer them. The final deliverable for students is to create a visual story that started from the question. Format can be various from paper storyboard to interactive visual storytelling. Week 1: An introduction to visual journalism Week 2: The process of making a visual story in a newsroom Week 3: What is data and how it\’s used Week 4: Data visualization and its best practices Week 5: Telling a story as a narrative (scrolly telling + game + animation) Week 6: Telling a story as an experience (AR/VR, chatbot) Week 7: Final presentations and critique

ITPG-GT.2071.1 () | Instructor: Youjin Shin | Syllabus | Mon 09:00am to 11:30am | Meeting Pattern: 7-First Half | Start Date