Professor Hanson Hosein's lecture slides from his Multimedia Storytelling class at the University of Washington's Master of Communication in Digital Media. Video was stripped.

1. (multimedia) Storytelling
COM 597
January 6 2010
Prof. Hanson Hosein
hosein@uw.edu
twitter: hrhmedia

5. “The Paradigm of Narrative as it
Relates to Social Trust and the
Conveyance of Knowledge in
Networked Systems and Society”

6. The Storyteller Uprising
How to Connect in the Disruptive Digital Age
(blog)

7. PREMISE
1. Everyone is a media organization.

8. PREMISE
2. Opportunity for more voices/noise/
concern over who to trust?

9. PREMISE
3. “Storytelling:” creating relationships
with communities of participants
through authentic conversation.

10. Once upon a time...

15. What caught your attention?
(if anything!)

16. “Poetics”

17. Aristotle’s Story Structure

18. Aristotle’s Story Structure

19. Beginning
Aristotle’s Story Structure

20. Beginning
Aristotle’s Story Structure

21. Middle
Beginning
Aristotle’s Story Structure

22. “Climax”
Middle
Beginning
Aristotle’s Story Structure

23. “Climax”
Middle
Beginning
Aristotle’s Story Structure

24. “Climax”
Middle
Beginning End
Aristotle’s Story Structure

25. Conflict/Tension
Aristotle: the complication (the
transformation of the hero’s fortune).
Emotion.

26. Tragedy is an imitation of an action
that is whole and complete in
itself...which has beginning, middle,
and end.
Fundamental ingredient: the “action
idea.”

27. After stumbling into a prestigious TV news job upon
graduation, Hanson never gets to ask himself
whether he really wants to be a broadcast
journalist. While on the assignment of a lifetime as
NBC's Middle East producer, he begins to realize
that he'd rather tell his own stories using new digital
technology. NBC has other ideas for him, which he
declines. At an impasse, and stressed out while
covering the Palestinian uprising, Hanson falls ill.
Fed up, he quits his job. He takes a soul-searching
cross-country road trip, during which he learns how
to shoot and edit his own film, the award-winning
“Independent America.”

28. But how does this work when you just
want to communicate with others?
emotion?

29. We Are Story

32. So, we’ve been telling stories forever.
What’s new?

33. Role for new storytellers

35. Accessible

36. CAPTURE TOOLS
Kodak Zi8
$179
Flip Video Mino HD
$229
Sony T500
$273
Canon HF100
$599
Rode NTG 2
$269
Sennheiser G2 lav
$459

37. EDIT TOOLS
Final Cut Pro - MAC $1,299
Final Cut Express - MAC $199
Vegas Movie Studio Pro - PC $114
Windows Movie Maker - PC $Free!

38. Anyone can tell a story.

39. 3 thoughts
for today
for this class
for your world view
a. Story is life.

40. 3 thoughts
for today
for this class
for your world view
b. Story is relationship.

41. 3 thoughts
for today
for this class
for your world view
c. Serve the story.

42. 1. Understand (a), (b) and (c).
2. With this understanding, learn how
to tell stories using digital media.
This Class

43. Story is Life: “Up”

44. So what’s your story?
Deliverable #1

45. Story Strategy
1. Who are you trying to reach?
2. Logline: short description.
3. The Story.
4. Production (in-house, pro?)
5. Platform (online, b’cast, archive?)

46. What to consider
1. Who are you trying to reach?

47. What to consider
2. Logline: short description.

49. What to consider

50. What to consider
2. Logline: short description.

51. What to consider
2. Logline: short description.
A likeable husband’s tolerance and marriage is tested by the constant
intrusions of his overbearing parents and jealous insecure brother.

52. What to consider
2. Logline: short description.
A likeable husband’s tolerance and marriage is tested by the constant
intrusions of his overbearing parents and jealous insecure brother.
Everybody Loves Raymond

54. What to consider

55. What to consider
2. Logline: short description.

56. What to consider
2. Logline: short description.
A dysfunctional family strives to cope with everyday life.

57. What to consider
2. Logline: short description.
A dysfunctional family strives to cope with everyday life.
Family Guy

58. What to consider
3. The Story.
Basic three acts:
1. Characters in a complicated situation. Incite the story.
2. Challenge the characters (50%).
3. Resolve the challenge.

59. What to consider
4. Production (in-house, pro?)
Shoot this yourself? Budget, camera?
Hire someone. Expectations?

60. What to consider
5. Platform (online, b’cast, archive?)

61. Deliverable #4 (Groundspeak)
1 page maximum
2. Develop a plan:
(a) who are you trying to reach?
(b) logline
(c) basic 3-act story
(d) how will you produce it (in-house, outsource, HD?)
(e) ideal distribution platform
(f) constraints?

62. Deliverable #2 (2 minute video)
Beginning, middle and end
NO EDITING [no reordering of images, must be as shot in the
camera]
Upload to your own YouTube channel, post URL to Media Space
group page. Provide logline in YouTube summary box.
Use any camera you like.
[save your footage, you’ll bring it to Saturday Jan 23rd workshop]

63. Deliverable #3 (Town Hall comment)
Due January 17th to my Town Hall blog post.
Comment on the substance of the talk, or the storytelling element of
the speech itself (structure, use of imagery, relationship with the
audience, pacing). And please participate!
TOWN HALL: 1119 8th Ave 7:30-9:00 (doors open at 6:30)