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Class Profile for Prof Stein’s MMP 350 Spring 2023

Class Profile for Prof Stein’s MMP 350 Spring 2023

Hands on introduction to user experience and interface design for screen-based, interactive media. Topics include user-centered design, visual and interaction design and information architecture. Students will develop user personas, design user flows and wireframes, develop high fidelity mockups and prototype apps for web and mobile devices.

Hands on introduction to user experience and interface design for screen-based, interactive media. Topics include user-centered design, visual and interaction design and information architecture. Students will develop user personas, design user flows and wireframes, develop high fidelity mockups and prototype apps for web and mobile devices.

This course gives students a solid foundation of HTML, CSS, Responsive Web Design, graphic design and UX principles.

This course gives students a solid foundation of HTML, CSS, Responsive Web Design, graphic design and UX principles.

MMP 210

MMP 210

This course focuses on writing fundamentals for visual media and specifically focuses on the short form. Students study storytelling basics such as protagonist, want, obstacles, antagonist, complication / rising action, climax, along with three-act structure, which is common to screenplays. With assignments in both fiction and non-fiction scriptwriting, the class covers such areas as: Basic research methods How to create character and story How to SHOW action, rather than TELL it How to write outlines and treatments How to format both Nonfiction A/V scripts and Fiction screenplays Learning how writing is rewriting. Designed as a workshop in which students will develop multiple drafts for the fiction and nonfiction scripts, the course also teaches how to give and receive good criticism on peers’ work. The aim of the course is to help students develop basic skills necessary to write and revise scripts for upper-level VAT production classes and beyond.

This course focuses on writing fundamentals for visual media and specifically focuses on the short form. Students study storytelling basics such as protagonist, want, obstacles, antagonist, complication / rising action, climax, along with three-act structure, which is common to screenplays. With assignments in both fiction and non-fiction scriptwriting, the class covers such areas as: Basic research methods How to create character and story How to SHOW action, rather than TELL it How to write outlines and treatments How to format both Nonfiction A/V scripts and Fiction screenplays Learning how writing is rewriting. Designed as a workshop in which students will develop multiple drafts for the fiction and nonfiction scripts, the course also teaches how to give and receive good criticism on peers’ work. The aim of the course is to help students develop basic skills necessary to write and revise scripts for upper-level VAT production classes and beyond.