Course Description Interactive Media & Lingo, taught by George Legrady Design 157 UCLA Winter 1998 TA: Brandon Rickman (ashes@ucla.edu), Muyao Chang (muyao@ucla.edu) Course Content The focus of this course is to provide conceptual and practical skills in programming interactive media in the Macromedia Director/Lingo environment. The course will cover the basics of working with the Lingo programming language to control sprites and their properties, sounds, multiple events and texts. In addition, weekly seminar lectures will introduce theoretical topics related to the conceptualization and design of interactive media. These will include topics such as: non-linear narrative, interface metaphors, montage, mise-en-scene, virtual time and space, syllogisms, image/text relationships, information theory, noise-to-signal, semiotics and signs, storyboard production. The expectation is for students to explore innovative ways by which to conceptualize, design and produce interactive media works that challenge current conventions of the multimedia world. Course Structure The quarter will be organized as follows: Week 1-5 Introduction, and programming basics Week 6-9 Project production Week 4-8 Theory and research Week 10 Project completion and Final presentation Weekly Schedule: 1.12 1.19 1.26 2.2 2.9 2.16 2.23 3.2 3.9 3.16 Lingo programming Project production Final Intro., tech basics Theory and research Critiques References The following texts will be referred in the seminars: John Fiske, Introduction to Communication Studies, Routledge, Chapters 1, 3 Hodges, Sasnett, Multimedia Computing, Addison Wesley, Chapters 4, 5 Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, HarperPerennial Recommended Technical Text Director 6 Demystified, Peachpit Press Advanced Reading Richard Coyne, Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age, MIT Press, Chapter 7 Other Web research about virtual architecture, interactivity, new techno based cultural trends, semiotics, comics, cinema, literature, music, etc. Grading 60% project (innovative concept 20%, good design 20%, technical skills 20%) 20% end of semester multiple choice and written test/quiz on course content 20% participation