Report on Session 1

3 Oct

 

Story and Interactivity Seminar__report on 1st session

 

Dear ICAT Students,

 

The Story and Interactivity Seminar got off to

a splendid start yesterday (Friday afternoon)!

 

At 2pm, Prof. Jerry Dev at ICAT-Bangalore spoke

to us in Chennai via telephone to wish us and

cheer us on.

 

16 ICAT-Chennai students were in attendance in

Classroom 3 in Chennai.

 

Illustrated by projected video recordings, webpages,

etc, the conversation of this first session centered

around

 

*** Whole-body gaming (one’s body and movements

being picked up by one or more video cameras,

for example).

 

*** Whole-body gaming in videoconferences.

 

*** Using an avatar vs. using a live-action video

image of oneself, in a videoconference.

 

*** Ways in which Paramount Studios is designing

games based on three of their popular movies

(Pretty in Pink, Mean Girls, and Clueless).

 

*** 3-D HD (three-dimensional high-definition),

stereoscopic cinema technology, and other attempts

(or so it seemed to some of us) towards creating

stand-alone 3D images out of light.  Especially

the news --

   IBC2008: Jeffrey Katzenberg: “3-D HD Is Our Future”

   DreamWorks Animation SKG CEO shows off technology

   in 3-D HD live feed from LA to Amsterdam on 14 Sept

   2008 at the International Broadcasting Convention’s

   annual conference” --

   http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6596040.html

 

 

This coming Friday is a holiday, so the second

session of our projected year-long Story and

Interactivity Seminar is scheduled for two weeks

from now -- 17 Nov (same time and place -- 2pm

in Classroom 3).

 

In addition to discussing current events, we are

reading and discussing two classic books in this

seminar -- _Hero with a Thousand Faces_ (about story),

and _Artificial Reality_ (about interactivity).

We will be discussing the first 10 pages of each

of these books in the next session of the seminar.

Copies of these two books are in the ICAT-Chennai

library.

 

Also in the next session, we agreed that it might

be fun to hear ideas about how to make games based

on favorite Indian movies -- so if you might have

any thoughts about this, please be sure to attend.

 

- Prof E.

 

98403 94282

Media Studies Dept, ICAT-Chennai

http://www.storytellingandvideoconferencing.com

http://www.storytellinginstitute.org