The document provides an overview of media production stages and examples of pre-production processes such as storytelling, scriptwriting, and iterative testing. It discusses defining the audience and media type, developing ideas, characters, and themes through "what if" questions. The document emphasizes starting with personal experiences and testing through multiple drafts to create high quality final scripts.

1. Laila Shoukry, M.Sc.
28.09.2017

2. Introduction & Motivation
Media Production Stages:
Overview & Examples
Pre-Production:
StoryTelling & Scriptwriting

3. Echo Newspaper in Darmstadt 2015
Currently PhD student at TU Darmstadt
 topic: Mobile Multimodal Serious Games Analytics
Worked in the Serious Games research group at the
Multimedia & Comm. Lab there for about 2 years
M.Sc. In Digital Media Engineering and Technology
from GUC in 2013
 topic: Child-Centered Design of Mobile Educational Games
for Arab Preschoolers
Some Successful Multimedia Projects:
 Mobile Educational Game Hamza for children
 Short Movie “The Box” was shown in Qomrah 1 Episodes
by Ahmed ElShukairy in Ramadan Last Year.
 Kids Songs CD: I am a Muslim with Noorart Company in
USA

8. Idea, Genre

9. Budget, Roles and Responsibilities

10. Message, Story, Characters, Script

11. Actual Project Management Timeline of the Game

12. StoryBoarding

13. Interactive Navigation

14. Screen Design

15. Screen Design

16. Character Design

17. Graphic Design

18. Graphic Design

19. Composing Music, Recording Songs, Audio
Instructions, Preparing/Finding Sound Effects

21. Iterative Testing (of Interactive Media)

22. You don’t need to have the most expensive
hardware!
You just need to be creative and make the
most out of available resources!

23. Define your audience
Define your Media Type:
 Fiction: Movies, Fairytales, Short Films, Short Episodes like Comedy Series,
Interactive Stories and Games,
 Non-Fiction: Documentaries, News Stories, Talk Shows, Instructional
Programs, Commercials.. Here the artistic proof can be ethical, emotional or
demonstrative
Can start with Character, Plot or Theme/Message
 Characters and their feelings are revealed through their actions and words
There are some characters from our favorite Movies that we never forget!
Why?
 A theme is the important issue/message raised
 The Plot is the story structure/main events

24. Think of your favorite films:
 Why do you think you connected with this story?
 What do they have in common? What is different?
 Think about setting, characters, conflict and struggle, pacing, depth of drama,
tone or levity, warmth, originality, unexpected elements
Best to start with personal experiences,
believes, assertions
 Bring your Unique Perspective!

25. Use What if questions:
Adapted from Pixar Online StoryTelling Course
 Their Cartoons started with simple what if
questions like these!
Now it's your turn. Come up with
3-5 of your own “what if” ideas!

26. Think about the world of your story
Adapted from Pixar Online StoryTelling Course

27. Part of a video from Pixar Online StoryTelling Course

28. Part of a video from Pixar Online StoryTelling Course

29. Now let’s play
this game and
develop our own
story!
Adapted from Pixar Online StoryTelling Course

30. Adapted from Pixar Online StoryTelling Course

36. Maybe most difficult/important part, an
iterative process!
Proposal
Rough Draft(s)
Final Draft
Scene Script (additional details for production)
Shooting Script (the order will depend on shooting
locations)
Give it enough time: Quality of the end result
really depends on it!
Taken from Pixar Online
StoryTelling Course

37. Taken from Wikiversity Filmmaking Course

38. Taken from Wikiversity Filmmaking Course

39. Sample formatted script page
Taken from Wikiversity Filmmaking Course