Writing with Media
Writing+
Writing +: Writing with Media
ENGL 90900-01 / 40900-02
DeBartolo Hall 335
TR 12:30 - 01:45 PM
Dr. Steve Tomasula
Office: 324 Decio. Hours: T & TH 2:00-2:45 and by appointment.
Office Phone: 631-7647; Home: 312-402-2646; e-mail: Steve.Tomasula@nd.edu
Lab TA: Ryan Taylor <Ryan.M.Taylor.251@nd.edu>
“Writing+” is a hybrid creative writing and literary course centered on poetry and narratives that use words, sound and images to create literary, aesthetic experience. One part literary reading, one part creative writing, this class will study literature that incorporates imagery, sound, and other non-textual materials by asking students to write fiction, poetry or criticism that incorporates imagery, sounds, and other non-textual materials as an inherent part of its message. That is, the class will move through a range of literary art forms, from graphic novels to electronic literature. Along the way, students will be asked to respond to the works read in class by designing and writing either hybrid image-text fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, or hybrid critical narratives, using the authoring tools of this hybrid literature. Rudimentary familiarity with basic authoring tools like a pencil & paper, a camera, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, iMovie, Scalar, Gimp, Adobe Voice (for iPad) or html programming helps, but is not required. Collaborative work is encouraged, though not expected.
Assignments: Short graphic story; 2 major projects; Read and be ready to discuss all works on schedule.
Book List
(Does Not Include e-lit and work to be passed out in class)
Excerpts from Raw Vol. 2, No. 1: "Open Wounds from the Cutting Edge of Commix". Art Spiegelman, ed. (Penguin Books)
ISBN-10: 0140122656
ISBN-13: 978-0140122657
Tom Phillips, A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel (Fifth or Sixth Edition). (Thames & Hudson)
ISBN-10: 0500289999
ISBN-13: 978-0500289990
https://www.amazon.com/Humument-Treated-Victorian-Novel-Fifth/dp/0500289999
Jen Bervin, Nets. (Ugly Duckling Press)
ISBN-10: 0972768432
ISBN-13: 978-0972768436
Anne Carson, Nox. (New Directions; Slp edition)
ISBN-10: 0811218708
ISBN-13: 978-0811218702
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric. (Graywolf Press)
ISBN-10: 1555976905
ISBN-13: 978-1555976903
Art Spiegelman, Maus, Vol. 1: A Survivor’s Tale. (Pantheon)
Please note, you may be able to get Vol. 1 & 2 together for the same price, but we’ll only discuss Vol. 1.)
ISBN-10: 0394747232
ISBN-13: 978-0394747231
Joe Sacco, Palestine. (Fantagraphics).
ISBN-10: 156097432X
ISBN-13: 978-1560974321
Paul Auster, City of Glass graphic novel and text-only version. (Penguin)
ISBN-10: 0140097317
ISBN-13: 978-0140097313
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel adaptation by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli. (Picador)
ISBN-10: 9780312423605
ISBN-13: 978-0312423605
Franz Kafka, Metamorphose (graphic novel adaptation by Peter Kuper).
(Broadway Books)
ISBN-10: 1400052998
ISBN-13: 978-1400052998
Graham Rawle, Women’s World (Counterpoint). [you may need to order in advance to get a used copy]
ISBN-10: 159376183X
ISBN-13: 978-1593761837
Salvador Placencia, People of Paper (Mariner Books)
ISBN-10: 0156032112
ISBN-13: 978-0156032117
Resources & Supplemental Reading
Books & Films on Reserve: https://reserves.library.nd.edu/courses/201720_69/reserves
Further Reading
Johanna Drucker, Against Fiction (In Rare Book Room)
Primo Levi, “Carbon” (from The Periodic Table). Illustrated by Yosuke Taki. (In Rare Book Room).
Illya Szilak, Queerskins: A Novel (online interactive) / Queerskins: A Love Story (VR story under development). http://www.queerskins.com/
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice, Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol.
Design, Storyboarding, Theory
Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information.
Edward R. Tufte, Beautiful Evidence.
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics.
Alison Gibbons, Ed., Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature.
Francis Glebas, Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation.
W.J.T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want?
Johanna Drucker, A Century of Artist Books
Johanna Drucker, Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
Apps/Software
University of Notre Dame Remix Resources
https://remix.nd.edu/?q=node/172
CDS (Center for Digital Scholarship) http://cds.library.nd.edu/
One-Button at Hesburg Library: Virtual Tour:
http://libguides.library.nd.edu/onebutton/virtual-tour
One Button Studio App: http://onebutton.psu.edu/
Comic Making Apps
ComicLife
http://plasq.com/apps/comiclife/macwin/
Pixton.com
Graphic Design App (web pages, video narrative)
PREZI: https://prezi.com/
Web Sites
Wordpress at ND: https://websites.nd.edu/
AV Resources, Software, Apps, Tutorials
Material
Audio Libraries
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
Images
Videos
Stock Video/Images/Audio for sale
https://www.shutterstock.com/video/
Tutorials
Overview using After Effects to create an animatic:
https://www.bloopanimation.com/animatic/
Using iMovie to make an animatic.
Brief overview on making an animatic in iMovie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S34ldp0XaI
Using Key Frames in iMovie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy_bUYT8V14#t=351.689437
Use iMoive to animate still photos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvHqHF4QolA
Stop Motion Animation
Simple cut outs & iMovie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY207xbWwD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipE3nCjI0IU (2 min. tutorial on stop-motion & iMovie)
White board animation with iMovie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlSVHaNXn6I
Missing Stick Man animation using cutouts and photos & iMovie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijwy8XFC4wg
[simple stop motion example, but no words): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByGq-EdQ2L0