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

What is a Mobisodes

Mobi Mobile (phone) sodes Episodes

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.

What is a MobisodesEtymology 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]

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?

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 Spaces25th Feb - Group Tutorials

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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 Tutorials01st Apr - Easter Break

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08th Apr – Easter Break15th Apr - Convergence Technology/ Convergence

Culture?22nd Apr - Participatory Media - Making Prosumers29th Apr - Production evaluation and screenings of

Mobisodes

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

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

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.

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 MarchEpisode 2 – 01st AprilEpisode 3 – 15th AprilEpisode 4 – 29th April

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.

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

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

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?

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

You will need a “handle” or username and you need to great a profile.

You need to select an “Avatar” or profile picture

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)

Class Tweets #MED316

http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/

http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/

Class Tweets @alan_hook

http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/

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.

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.

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

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

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/

So… what tools will we be using?