DISC301-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Story development

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Building on what they learned in DISC101 and DISC201, students develop a coherent short story that can be made in a third-year or fourth-year course. Choosing to focus on a story for a film, animation, game, or other form of interactive media, students will conceive and work to design their overarching theme, the story world, visual design, and characters (live-action or digital). An important feature of the course is collaborative groupwork tasks and feedback, whereby students work together to critique and support each other’s projects. This means that students have the opportunity to collaborate in a peer group to deliver a more fully-developed systemic worldbuilding and storytelling process. The course ends with a shooting script or story design for an animation, game, or fiction film or documentary.

Learning Outcomes

  • Story and production skills feeding into the DISC380 project.
  • Producing a story outline/script/treatment as stand-alone work or potential basis for DISC380 project.
  • Advanced professional development. Including cultural competence and confidence.
  • Academic researching skills commensurable to 300 level and leading into post-graduate study (Hons year).
  • DS convergence skills across Majors.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 10:00 Otakaro 146 L1 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00 Otakaro 146 L1 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

Gillian Ashurst

Lecturer

Glenn Watt Standring

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Pitch of idea and Treatment 05 Mar 2025 15% In class ideation
Written Project 04 Apr 2025 35% 7-10 minutes Scrtip/Documentary/Game Dev Treatment, Storyboard lookbook and written proof of concept
Rearch skills deep dive 16 May 2025 35% Person, place or historical event. 2000 words
CV revisited 30 May 2025 15% with letter to employer

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 .

All DISC301 Occurrences

  • DISC301-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025