54097 Online Documentary
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Credit points: 8 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Requisite(s): (32 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10359 Bachelor of Communication (Digital and Social Media) Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation OR 32 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10361-C10364, and Category Type = Bachelor's Degree OR 32 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10365-C10368, and Category Type = Bachelor's Combined Degree OR 32 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10369 Bachelor of Communication (Creative Writing) OR 32 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10370 Bachelor of Communication (Creative Writing) Bachelor of Arts International Studies OR 32 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10371 Bachelor of Communication (Digital and Social Media) OR 32 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10372-C10383, and Category Type = Bachelor's Combined Degree)) OR ((24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10246-C10251, and Category Type = Bachelor's Degree OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10252-C10263, and Category Type = Bachelor's Combined Degree OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10264 Bachelor of Global Studies OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10311 Bachelor of Arts Communication (Creative Writing) OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10312-C10313, and Category Type = Bachelor's Combined Degree OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10314 Bachelor of Arts Communication (Digital and Social Media) OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10315-C10316, and Category Type = Bachelor's Combined Degree OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10317 Bachelor of Arts Communication (Cultural Studies) OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10318-C10319, and Category Type = Bachelor's Combined Degree OR 24 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10332-C10337, and Category Type = Bachelor's Combined Degree)
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses. See access conditions.
Anti-requisite(s): 50001 Online Documentary
Description
Ongoing developments in digital media platforms and technologies are offering media producers and organisations increasing opportunities for online interactive content production in documentary and factual genres. This subject allows students to develop production and planning skills in interactive online content production, through exploring a range of conceptual, creative, and production issues involved in the development of online documentaries and similar interactive factual or socially relevant digital media. Students research and engage with issues concerning interactive online documentary across a range of broadcast and non-broadcast approaches, including stylistic approaches, platform issues, social media integration, community building, participatory approaches, digital project planning, structure and interface design for digital contents. They expand their digital planning skills through developing a detailed proposal and scoping document for an original online documentary project. They expand their digital production skills through technical workshops in a relevant software, and by working in small interdisciplinary collaborative teams to develop an original interactive online media project emerging from the earlier proposals, with a focus on socially relevant, factual or documentary contents.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
| a. | Critically research and analyse current and emerging online documentary projects, platforms and approaches |
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| b. | Expand digital planning and production skills |
| c. | Collaboratively design and create an original online documentary |
| d. | Collaborate effectively with peers |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject engages with the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs), which are tailored to the Graduate Attributes set for all graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences:
- Possess a well-developed awareness of professional practice in the context of the communication industries (1.1)
- Apply theoretically-informed understanding of the communication industries in independent and collaborative projects across a range of media (1.2)
- Possess information literacy skills to locate, gather, organise and synthesise information across diverse platforms to inform the understanding of the communication industries (2.1)
- Be reflexive critical thinkers and creative practitioners who are intellectually curious, imaginative and innovative; with an ability to evaluate their own and others' work (2.2)
- Possess the skills to behave ethically in personal and professional contexts (5.2)
- Possess well-developed skills and proficiencies to communicate and respond effectively and appropriately across different contexts (6.1)
- Demonstrate digital literacy and production skills across a range of media and media texts (6.2)
Teaching and learning strategies
Face-to-face classes will incorporate a range of teaching and learning strategies including lectures, case study analysis, discussion, groupwork, quizzes, workshops and collaborative project development. These will be complemented by flipped activities, including preparatory work prior to attending classes using online resources such as websites and videos, and online technical skill development for certain softwares using digital resources. Initial lectures will focus on key conceptual, planning and production issues relevant to online documentary production. As the subject progresses, the focus shifts significantly to active learning via collaborative team work, workshops and in-class production where students work in small teams to produce online documentary projects emerging from the earlier submitted proposals. Students gain formative feedback during class as their projects are developed from proposal through to prototype stage.
Content (topics)
This subject reviews online digital contents in socially relevant, factual and documentary contexts and case studies of significant online documentaries and related projects. Students engage with
Web 2.0, participatory and social media approaches to online documentary, game-like approaches such as serious games and hybrid and emerging approaches and platforms for online documentary.
• Structuring content and wireframing for digital online media and online documentary
• Aesthetics and interface design approaches for digital online media and online documentary
• Digital project planning and production for online documentary
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Case Study Analysis
| Objective(s): | a and b | ||||||||||||||||
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| Weight: | 25% | ||||||||||||||||
| Length: | 1000 words and 3-5 annotated screen grabs | ||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 2: Online Documentary Concept Proposal
| Objective(s): | a, b and c | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight: | 35% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length: | 2000 words (including development blog posts) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 3: Online Documentary Project
| Objective(s): | b, c and d | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight: | 40% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length: | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Minimum requirements
Attendance at tutorials is essential in this subject. Classes are based on a collaborative approach that involves essential work-shopping and interchange of ideas with other students and the tutor. A roll will be taken at each class. Students who have more than two absences from class will be refused final assessment (see Rule 3.8).?
It is essential to attempt all assessment tasks to pass the subject as each assessment meets unique subject learning objectives.
Recommended texts
Baker, M. 2005. Documentary in the Digital Age, Focal Press, New York.
Bruzzi, S. 2000. New Documentary: A critical introduction, Routledge, London.
Garrett, J. 2010. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition), New Riders, Berkeley.
Krug, S. 2014. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition), New Riders, Berkeley.
Nash, K. Hight, C. Summerhayes, C. (eds), 2014. New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Johnson, J. 2010. Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules: Designing with The Mind in Mind, Morgan Kaufmann, Burlington.
Lupton, E. 2014. Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.
Winston, B. 2013. The Documentary Film Book. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Extensive online references will be provided each semester.
