STUDY PROGRAMME
Creative Media Production

AFAM CODE
ABTEC40

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Multimedia Design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Multimedia Design

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

The course aims to provide students with a greater understanding of non-linear and interactive narratives, with particular focus on virtual spaces and sound. Design lessons are accompanied by a workshop directed at teaching students how to use the main software and platforms to develop interactive solutions.

The programme grants 12 credits.

Successful students will be able to:

→ Apply non-linear narration

→ Apply principles of interactivity

→ Apply algorithms as the basis of design

→ Understand and apply the logics of a new programming language

→ Introduction to sound design

→ Narration and aesthetics of sound design

→ Designing interactive sound environments

→ Introduction and use of MaxMsp

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the development of different projects:

• Classroom lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Workshops

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

CAD:

• Completion of comprehensive projects

• Submission of exercises, projects or research works

PHOTOGRAPHY:

• Graded exercises/revisions

• Submission of exercises, projects or research works

INTRODUCTION TO LAB:

• Graded exercises/revisions

• Submission of exercises, projects or research works

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

The final grade will result from the weighted average of the programme modules.

→ Weibel P. (2019) Sound Art: Sound As a Medium of Art, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA)

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professors during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.