2022/2023
Audiovisual Narrative
Code: 105019
ECTS Credits: 12
Degree |
Type |
Year |
Semester |
2501928 Audiovisual Communication |
OB |
1 |
A |
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Other comments on languages
Suport audiovisual i sonor
Teachers
- Angel Custodio Gomez
- Jesica Ana Florencia Menéndez Signorini
- Pau Lluis Gumiel
Prerequisites
Basic skills of video editor (movie-maker or I-movie), sound editor (audacity) and Internet tools like Google.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The aim of the subject is to approach different narrative theories and to encourage students to make audiovisual contents based on specific narrative models, focusing in dramaturgy and expressive nature of the audiovisual languages.
Competences
- Apply narrative and presentation skills specific to audiovisual content.
- Disseminate the area's knowledge and innovations.
- Manage time effectively.
- Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Use one's imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply theoretical principles to boost the effectiveness of audiovisual narratives.
- Be familiar with the narrative and dramatic forms of other media to adapt them to audiovisual narration.
- Develop aesthetic sensitivity to create audiovisual products.
- Disseminate the area's knowledge and innovations.
- Manage time effectively.
- Promote innovations in the development of audiovisual narratives.
- Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Use one's imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
Content
- Audiovisual storytelling and typologies
- Point of view, perspective and focalization
- Theme and plot
- The narrator
- Characters and roles
- Narrative structures (sounds and audiovisuals)
- Approach to technical and literary script
- Transmedia storytelling
The calendar detailed with the content of the different sessions will be presented on the day of presentation of the subject. It will be uploaded to the Virtual Campus, where students will also be able to access the detailed description of the exercises and practices and any necessary information for the proper follow-up of the subject.
Methodology
The academic sessions will be organized around different activities (lectures, auditions, viewings, problems, practices, etc.) for the students to learn by doingThe proposed teaching methodology and evaluation activities may undergo some modifications depending on the health authorities' attendance restrictions.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
The evaluation activities are composed of a theoretical exam, an introductory practice to the audiovisual narrative that can be done in group or individually. Once these activities are closed, the students organized in groups will start the creation, design and production of a transmedia project.
Students will have the right to recover the course if they have been evaluated on the set of activities, the weight of which is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade of the course. In order to be able to apply for the recovery of the subject, an average mark of 3.5 must have been obtained.
The activity that is excluded from the remedial process is the course project.
In the case of a second enrolment, students can do a single synthesis exam/assignment that will consist of a theory and practice exam. The grading of the subject will correspond to the grade of the synthesis exam/assignment.
The student who performs any irregularity (copy, plagiarism, identity theft...) that can lead to a significant variation of the qualification of an evaluation act, will be qualified with 0 this act of evaluation. In case there are several irregularities, the final grade of the subject will be 0.
Assessment Activities
Title |
Weighting |
Hours |
ECTS |
Learning Outcomes |
Practices |
20% on the final grade |
3
|
0.12 |
1, 8, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6
|
Project |
50% on the final grade |
7.5
|
0.3 |
1, 8, 2, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6
|
Theory Exam |
30% on the final grade |
4.5
|
0.18 |
1, 8, 2
|
Bibliography
- García-Marín, D. (2019). La radio en pijama. Origen, evolución y ecosistema del podcasting español. Estudios Sobre El Mensaje Periodístico, 25(1),181-196. https://doi.org/10.5209/ESMP.63723
- Gutiérrez San Miguel, Begoña ( 2002). “La luz como elemento expresivo de la narrativa audiovisual”.Comunicar, n.18. http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=15801816
- Heussner, Tobias, Kristen Finley, Toya, Brandes Hepler, Jennifer, & Lemay, Anne (2015). The Game Narrative Toolbox (disponible en línia)
- Larrondo-Ureta, Ainara; Peña-Fernández, Simón; Agirreazkuenaga-Onaindia, Irati. Hacia una mayor participación de la audiencia: experiencias transmedia para jóvenes. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico 26 (4), 1445-1454. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ESMP/article/view/71375
- Lindgren, Mia and Loviglio, Jason (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, Routledge, UK (disponible en línia)
- López, Maria de Lourdes y Nicolás, Maria Teresa (2016). “El análisis de series de televisión: construcción de un modelo interdisciplinario”. ComHumanitas: Revista Científica de Comunicación, 6(1), 22-39 http://www.comhumanitas.org/index.php/comhumanitas/issue/view/Entornos%20audiovisuales
- Pérez Rufí, José Patricio (2016). Metodología de análisis del personaje cinematográfico: una propuesta desde la narrativa fílmica. Razón y palabra, Vol. 20. 534-552. En online: https://revistarazonypalabra.org/index.php/ryp/article/view/685
- Pérez Rufí, José Patricio, Gómez Pérez, Francisco Javier & Navarrete Cardero, José Luis (2014). El videoclip narrativo en los tiempos de YouTube. Sphera Publica, 2, (14), 36-°©‐‑60. En online: http://sphera.ucam.edu/index.php/sphera-01/article/view/228
Software
Audacity, DaVinci