Upcoming Courses

| Creative Lab Concepting Mobile Multi-User Applications |
Developing Narrative Games Workshop | Interactive Digital Moviemaking Workshop |

All courses will be held in English.

Participants have to apply for each workshop separately.

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Creative Lab Concepting Mobile Multi-User Applications

Moderator: Frank Boyd, UK

26.11. - 2.12.2004, Oulu, Finland

Peer-to-peer creative cross disciplinary lab on concepting interactive narrative applications for mobile devices.
Attendees will form teams of three to five members and develop during this intense 5-day think tank
concepts for a mobile narrative application considering challenges, limitations and advantages of the choice of technology.
Emphasis should be on pervasive, location based and/or community creating interactivity.
In this lab the attendees - all experienced professionals themselves - will serve as experts as well.

Requirements for participation:
At least two years experience in developing mobile or multi-user applications.
Good English language knowledge .

To apply for this lab please send an email to sagas@sagas.de
with your cv stating your professional experience and skills as well as a special interest topic you would like to explore at the lab.

In co-operation with POEM and m-cult and additional support from the Oulu Polytechnic.

Developing Narrative Games Workshop

Ernest Adams

25.2. – 3.3.2005, HFF, Munich, Germany

In this intensive five-day workshop, the participants will work both alone and in teams to develop a design treatment for a narrative game.They will begin by studying the fundamental principles of computer game design, and then go on to explore the relationship between interactivity and narrative.There will be a few lectures, but most of the activities will be fullyhands-on, involving brainstorming, discussion, and presentations from theparticipants to the group. By the end of the workshop each team will haveaddressed a number of critical design issues, including genre, platform, target audience, user interface, the player's role, temporal structure,narrative structure, character and backstory creation, perspective, tool set, and media usage.

Interactive Digital Moviemaking Workshop

Christopher Hales

31.3. – 7.4.2005, HFF, Munich, Germany

This practical workshop deals with the design and production of desktop interactive non-linear narratives using "live-action" video footage. All the different aspects of creating interactive movies will be explored, although the emphasis will be on the visual metaphors for interaction rather than written scriptwriting: participants will be asked to think laterally about their definition of narrative when issues of interactivity are concerned.Actual desktop production techniques will be demonstrated, but the course will concentrate on innovative and aesthetic issues rather than detailed technical complexities of delivery platform and software.A lecture-based strand of this workshop presents ways in which moving images have been, and could be, made interactive – investigating structure, interface and metaphor, and the importance of content. There will also be some discussion of the relevance of newly developing 'convergence' areas of interactive digital TV and set-top boxes. The practical strand shows how actual products could be piloted on a low-budget desktop system. Video cameras are provided for participants to generate their own video footage as a response to the techniques learnt, and the digital production cycle from video acquisition to multimedia authoring (Director) will be demonstrated.Within the short span of the course each participant (or small group) should be able to produce a modest piece of interactive digital video for presentation on the final day and to take home with them from the workshop.


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