DISC223-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Creating story worlds

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course focuses on concept development, narrative design and production design activities that support storytelling and audience engagement across multiple platforms. Through a combination of lectures, practical workshops and creative assignments, we will be exploring the potential for coherent and flexible story worlds to provide a unified foundation for films, video games and adjacent media including novels, picture books, episodic web series, tabletop RPG settings, toys and merchandise, as well as looking at industry standards and expectations for pitching, funding proposals, and managing intellectual property.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 10:00 - 11:00 Otakaro 236 L2 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 16:00 - 18:00 Otakaro 122
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
02 Tuesday 16:00 - 18:00 Otakaro 132
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
03 Friday 16:00 - 18:00 Otakaro 122
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator

Gillian Ashurst

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $998.00

International fee $4,850.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Creative and Digital Arts .

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