This document outlines the MED316 module on mobisodes and web 2.0. It discusses mobisodes as episodic content produced for mobile devices. It also covers several topics to be addressed in the module, including mobile phones as cameras and screens, narrative construction, distribution techniques, and the use of social media platforms for promotion. Deadlines are provided for students to produce and submit four mobisode episodes. Accounts on Twitter and other services are required for students to distribute and promote their work.

1. MED316 – Mobisodes and Web 2.0Digital Video – Production, Promotion and Distribution

2. What is a Mobisodes MobiMobile (phone) sodesEpisodes Mobisodes are episodic content produced to be viewed on mobile devices usually phones. They mark a shift in the production and distribution of Television and Film; they work as both advertising and promotion.

3. What is a Mobisodes Etymology Blend of mobile and episode. mobisode (plural mobisodes) An episode of a television drama series condensed and broadcast to cellular phones. An episode of content (fiction or non-fiction) that has been created to be viewed with a cellular phone, or over the internet. Usually between 30 seconds and five minutes in length. Usage notes mobisode is a trademark of Fox Corporation. Mobisodes Wikitionary[Available at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mobisode]

4. What is a Mobisodes Definition of the term mobisode from Urban Dictionary [accessed 26/01/10] Why is this definition both useful and academically irrelevant?

5. MED316 28th Jan - Introduction to module/Project management 04th Feb - Mobile Phones as Camera and Screen/Viral Videos 11th Feb - Narrative Construction and New Media 18th Feb - DIY Media – Web 2.0: Social Places /Distribution Spaces 25th Feb - Group Tutorials

6. MED316 04th Mar - Composition and design for small screens 11th Mar - Editing and distribution techniques for short film/small screen 18th Mar - Intertextuality and Transmedia Storytelling: Narrative Across Media 25th Mar - Individual Tutorials 01st Apr - Easter Break

7. MED316 08th Apr – Easter Break 15th Apr - Convergence Technology/ Convergence Culture? 22nd Apr - Participatory Media - Making Prosumers 29th Apr - Production evaluation and screenings of Mobisodes

8. Production, Promotion and Distribution Production We will be looking at the production of digital videos for and with mobile phones. We will look at specific examples of work produced with mobile phones and investigate how this is done and what effect these mobile devices have on your media output. The module will focus on mobile phones as both cameras and screens

9. Production, Promotion and Distribution Promotion This module will look at a variety of promotion techniques focusing on web 2.0 platforms and how they can be used to disseminate information We will look at how mobile videos are used both as promotional tools and how they fit into the patchwork of media productions and practices which produce convergence culture

10. Production, Promotion and Distribution Distribution We will look at a variety of techniques that you can employ to get your episodic content from finished production to viewing public This module will look at new forms of distribution in digital culture, how they are used and what effect they have on the products that we produce and consume.

11. What do we need to consider/what are the challenges? You need to produce a narrative which works across 4 separate episodes, this narrative needs to be delivered via and will be marked on 4 separate occasions. You have a staggered deadline across the module and video content needs to be delivered on these dates. Episode 1 – 18th March Episode 2 – 01st April Episode 3 – 15th April Episode 4 – 29th April

12. An Extra Challenge Students should use their mobile phones to produce, edit and upload their content to their channels Students can use other recording methods but students are expected to justify the production decisions they make in their production portfolios.

13. Assessed Coursework 01 The project proposal, storyboard and production schedule will reflect: The aims of your project and your expected outcome The narrative structure (chart and storyboard) The theories and influences that have informed the development of your project idea Project management skills, including structuring tasks, prioritising, showing initiative and delivering work on time

14. Assessed Coursework 02 The mobisodes will demonstrate that: The narrative fulfils or challenges the expectations of audiences viewing a story The narrative uses narrative structures, styles, devices and viewpoints in innovative and creative ways The episodes make effective use of the hardware and software to design and deliver it The series of episodes demonstrate originality and creativity in their design and composition

15. Mandatory Accounts For this module all students are expected to have both a and account as part of this module. Other web 2.0 services can and will be used such as but students are required to use these services professionally and represent themselves in a professional manner in these spaces. What does this mean?

16. First Up… Students are required to sign up for a twitter account, for those that have one logon and help support your fellow tweeters and classmates

17. You will need a “handle” or username and you need to great a profile. You need to select an “Avatar” or profile picture

18. Following We need to form a twitter group, this will involve all following each other. To start this process you need to search for alan_hook (that’s me)

19. Class Tweets #MED316 http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/ http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/

20. Class Tweets @alan_hook http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/

21. Creating A Profile You will need to fill in your profile, keep it professional and make sure it represents what you want to show to the rest of the world, both professionally and personally.

22. Branding Students are asked to consider a professional interlinking aesthetic to the way the represent themselves and their mobisodes in these distribution and promotional spaces.

23. MED316 on the web As well as a #Hashtag for use on MED316 also has a presence on Your group can be found here… http://www.zotero.org/groups/med316_-_mobisodes_creating_mobile_content is a plugin for

24. MED316 on the web All module presentations will be uploaded and can be found on the modules A group has been created where students can comment on the presentations and review the lecture series. http://www.slideshare.net/group/med316

25. MED316 – Pre-Production We will be looking at a number of different approaches to preproduction and project scheduling during this module. We will be focusing on a new free software which promotes itself as “the world's first all-in-one media pre-production system. It replaces 'paper & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.” http://celtx.com/

26. So… what tools will we be using?