Overview

Immersive Screen Narratives introduces students to contemporary and emerging screen production practices with a focus on immersive video and spatial audio. Students will explore how immersive video and spatial audio redefines the traditional screen experience to inform project development. Students will learn a range of production techniques to produce their own immersive storytelling experience. This unit supports students to reflect on the viewer experience for immersive platforms.

Requisites

Prerequisites
MDA10001 Introduction to Media Studies

AND
MDA10018 Content Creator Lab OR JOU10007 Media Content Creation
OR
50 credit points

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Identify key concepts and principles of immersive video and spatial audio
  • Operate immersive video and spatial audio production equipment using key functions and controls
  • Implement industry standard production techniques, principles and workflows in the development of an immersive storytelling experience
  • Critically reflect on viewer experience in the context of immersive video and spatial audio
  • Effectively participate, communicate, collaborate and project manage as part of a creative team

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Studio		 3.00  12 weeks  36
Specified Activities
Various		 7.50  12 weeks  90
Unspecified Activities
Various		 2.00  12 weeks  24
TOTAL     150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Immersive Video Portfolio and Reflection Individual/Group 30%  1,2,4,5 
Spatial Audio Portfolio and Reflection Individual/Group 30%  1,2,4,5
Immersive Storytelling Experience Group  40%  2,3,5

Content

  • Emergent media, convergence, cultures and immersive storytelling
  • Immersive screen narrative theories and strategies
  • Immersive video and spatial audio
  • Immersive production workflows, industry standards, protocols and techniques
  • 180-degree and 360-degree video production tools and techniques
  • Spatial and non-linear storytelling for fiction and non-fiction

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.