Building Fictional Worlds

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Jun 5 - Aug 14

$525

Location

Online

Faculty

Carl Potts,

Creative director, visual artist, writer, editor

After receiving an overview of writing approaches and visual storytelling, students will develop their original story idea and transform it into an entertainment intellectual property (IP). Each student's fictional world is designed to support the student's series/franchise story ideas with strong story arcs, cohesive themes, three-dimensional characters, strong conflicts and consistent internal logic. Developing the IP for use across a variety of media and protecting it through copyright and trademark is also discussed. An initial draft of an entertainment IP "bible" will be the main class deliverable. It will include a draft of the story designed to launch the IP, history and facts about the fictional world, character profiles and character/environment designs. The course is geared toward students within a wide range of experience - from those who have not yet written an original fiction project to those with professional writing experience.
NOTE: Prior to the beginning of class, students should have an original entertainment property idea to develop for visual media (film, TV, comics, games, Internet). Students who work with traditional tools (pencil and ink on paper) will need a scanner to turn their work into JPG or PDF files. All students with an active registration in this course will be given free access to the Adobe Creative Cloud. This course is fully online and offered through synchronous sessions during the listed course hours.

Course Number

CIC-3312-OL

Credits

3.5 CEUs

Technical Requirements

The School of Visual Arts online courses are hosted in Canvas, our College-wide learning system. Most computers (5 years old or newer recommended) can access the course(s) without a problem. The courses work with Windows (Windows 7 and newer), Macintosh (Mac OSX 10.10 and newer), and Linux (chromeOS). Participants will need a minimum screen size of 800x600 (the average size of a netbook) and good broadband (Minimum of 512kbps) Internet connection to participate in the online courses.
Accessing Your Online Course
One business day after completing registration, you will receive a confirmation email from the Registrar’s Office which includes a schedule, username and password.

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Steps to Access Your Online Course
Login to myid.sva.edu

Select the Canvas LMS icon

The Canvas application is your online classroom. Here you can find your Zoom links and course materials such as supply lists, discussion boards, recorded lectures, etc. You will use Zoom for live video meetings. Your instructor will show you around how their particular course is organized.

For more information on Canvas, please visit the online courses section of the SVAIT User Guide.
Don’t see your course in Canvas?

You should see your course on your Canvas dashboard by 5:00 PM one day before the first class session.

If you are still having trouble finding your course through Canvas, please reach out to olt@sva.edu
Issues logging in?

Reach out to helpdesk@sva.edu .
Trying to access the Adobe Creative Suite?

Please reference the SVA User Guide here for further instruction.

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