2000
– hypertext
Hypermedia Theory and Practice
Hypermedia Theory and Practice is a subject taught to the M.A. Screenwriting students in the Media Department (Institutt for medievitenskap) at the University of Bergen. The subject combines close film study with hypermedia writing to encourage students to
- develop close reading critical skills
- apply critical theories to an extant canonical text
- reconceive their notions of what constitutes 'content'
- reconceive their notions of 'writing' and structure
Lecture Schedule
The lectures and workshops in this course combine theoretical work with practical skills and considerations. By the end of the lecture and workshop series you will have developed applied close reading skills, as well as explored the meaning and implications of content, convergence and hypermedia structure. All work completed will be delivered via HTML and the World Wide Web, with Storyspace, Dreamweaver, and QuickTime the major software tools utilised.
From the second week of teaching (the week beginning November 20th) workshops are held in the computer lab in the basement, and where there are afternoon workshops scheduled these are for you to work on your projects and I will be in attendance downstairs for questions/problems/criticism. Seminars are held in the lecture room and are for common discussion, sharing and reporting. Lectures are lectures. Reading material will be provided during the first lecture.
All students will complete a Web based project utilising mixed media. All students will be involved in a peer review process.
MONDAY 13th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Screening Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 16.15 Hypertext Theory Seminar Seminar room 5th floor
TUESDAY 14th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.15 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Approaches to the film critical
methodologies, resources and sources. Seminar room 5th floor
WEDNESDAY 15th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Writing and thinking in new media
Reading: Bonime and Pohlman Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 16.00Old and New content
feedback / Storyspace Seminar room 5th floor
THURSDAY 16th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Reading, re-reading, writing and
Re-writing
Reading: Cornis-Pop Seminar room 5th floor
FRIDAY 17th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Interactive cinema, new media, repetition
Reading: Manovich Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
WEEK 47
MONDAY 20th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Globalization, Democracy and
New technologies Seminar room 5th floor
12.30 - 14.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Mystory and Electracy
Reading: Ulmer Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
TUESDAY 21th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Globalization, Democracy and
New technologies Seminar room 5th floor
12.30 - 14.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Quick Time on the web Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
WEDNESDAY 22th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Globalization, Democracy and
New technologies Seminar room 5th floor
12.30 - 14.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
THURSDAY 23th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Globalization, Democracy and
New technologies Seminar room 5th floor
12.30 - 14.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar: Hypervideo
Reading: Balcom Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
FRIDAY 24th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Globalization, Democracy and
New technologies Seminar room 5th floor
12.30 - 14.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
WEEK 48
HYPERTEXT THEORY AND PRODUCTION - Adrian Miles
MONDAY 27th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Hypermedia patterns and rhetoric, images
and words. Screens, pages and content.
Reading: Landow, Bernstein, Moulthrop Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
TUESDAY 28th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
WEDNESDAY 29th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar
Show work in progress Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
THURSDAY 30th NOVEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Web and Multimedia Seminar room 5th floor
14.15 - 17.15 Workshop Basement
FRIDAY 1th DECEMBER
10.15 - 12.00 Hypertext Theory Seminar:
Present final work - peer review Seminar room 5th floor
Assessment
Required work: Write a hypermedia essay that is a based on the opening sequence of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958). Your analysis can take any form that you wish, but it must meet the following criteria:
- the work must contain at least three external links
- the work must refer (in some manner) to at least five academic references
- the work must contain video, still image, and possibly text
- the work must reside on the newmedia.uib.no server
Processes: Work will be drafted in the first instance in Storyspace. Images and text will be put in Storyspace and it will be used for general writing. Video is not supported in Storyspace for Windows and so text indicators will be used.
Storyspace work will receive general criticism and then, if needed, be reedited. The Storyspace essays will then be published into HTML and further writing and building will be done, including incorporating video material.
Completion:Web projects to be completed for presentation by December 1st. Simple peer review (using a form provided) will be done by all students on each other's work. All work will be publically available on the World Wide Web.
References
Cornis-Pope, Marcel. "Literary Education in the Age of Hypertextual and Networked Communication: Strategies for an Interactive Critical Pedagogy." Reading in the Age of Media, Computers, and Internet. http://www.liternet.revolta.com/iser/pope1.htm Accessed October 30, 2000.
Bernstein, Mark. "Patterns of Hypertext." Hypertext '98. Pittsburgh PA: ACM, 1998. 21-9. Available at http://www.eastgate.com/patterns/Print.html
Bowerbird Hypermedia Research Engine. Search engine specifically indexing hypertext, hypermedia, and related content. Fully searchable.
Interactive Cinema
Lev Manovich. http://jupiter.ucsd.edu/~manovich/home.htm (Just read any/all of the essays here. The set reading is "What is Digital Cinema?" - http://jupiter.ucsd.edu/~manovich/text/digital-cinema.html
Oncotype (Danish interactive design house) http://www.oncotype.dk/
Hypertext and hypermedia
HyperCafe http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/hypercafe/
Nitin Sawhney "Authoring and Navigating Video in Space and Time" http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/hypercafe/Nick_Project96/hypervideo.html
Mark Amerika - AltX, Grammatron
Stuart Moulthrop - Hegirascope, Reagan's Library
Technical stuff
QuickTime tutorials http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/tutorials/
QuickTime embed tag reference http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/embed.html