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| First Offical Map of Oz from Tik Tok in Oz |
Worldbuilding principle of the week: "All maps are projections."
Assignment Before Coming to Class: Read one of the Books of Oz from the original canon. You will find resources for this on the Course Resource Page. You have to use your Ringling username and password to access this page.
Using any of the maps of Oz as a general container, such as the one reproduced above, select a specific area and create the map of a small village that exists in the area you have chosen. Use the Oz book you have read as a source to add characters to the map as well as potential locations but most of the characters you use or details you build should be created by you, not taken from Baum's work. Try to keep your locations and characters in harmony with Baum's world although it is possible to creatively depart in a number of directions, which is often the case when contemporary writers tell stories in the Ozverse.
After you have created your map which should include some characters and where they live and other buildings and landscape features for your small area of use, write an entry for an Oz travelogue of your small village that describes the village and some of its most prominent inhabitants. Include some details of the most significant buildings and describe some of the domiciles of the important townfolk. Use at least one character from the canon to help populate the village but make sure it contains some orginal characters that you invent. Don't use a specific place already described in the books, do some building out of the canonical Oz World.
Using any of the maps of Oz as a general container, such as the one reproduced above, select a specific area and create the map of a small village that exists in the area you have chosen. Use the Oz book you have read as a source to add characters to the map as well as potential locations but most of the characters you use or details you build should be created by you, not taken from Baum's work. Try to keep your locations and characters in harmony with Baum's world although it is possible to creatively depart in a number of directions, which is often the case when contemporary writers tell stories in the Ozverse.
After you have created your map which should include some characters and where they live and other buildings and landscape features for your small area of use, write an entry for an Oz travelogue of your small village that describes the village and some of its most prominent inhabitants. Include some details of the most significant buildings and describe some of the domiciles of the important townfolk. Use at least one character from the canon to help populate the village but make sure it contains some orginal characters that you invent. Don't use a specific place already described in the books, do some building out of the canonical Oz World.
Here is a link to several accepted maps along with backgrounds on them
http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Maps_of_Oz
At the top of the page are navigation buttons and search bar to access the knowledge base of the Oz wiki which includes information on the books and on the canon as well as a wide diversity of Oziana of all types and media.
Please bring your laptop or tablet to class with a copy of your map and description files on it. In class we will create a blog on which you will post your work for this semester and we will post your map and travelogue entry then.
Please bring your laptop or tablet to class with a copy of your map and description files on it. In class we will create a blog on which you will post your work for this semester and we will post your map and travelogue entry then.
Check the course resource page in the Course Links box for this week's reading to help you complete this assignment. Look under the resources for week 2.
Summary of Course Information:
The purpose of this course is to provide you with an introduction to some of the basic concepts from the liberal arts that are used to create believable narrative worlds. Projects in the course are designed to help you apply the concepts you learn.
Attendance Policy is the Ringling Institutional Policy.
There will be three projects for this course. The first project involves the creation of an exo-planet in the "goldilocks" zone of a distant star. The planet will have its own planetary ecosystem and carbon-based biota. Suitable in some way for human habitation. This project will take place over the first third of the course. Each student will be required to create a planet skin (in photoshop or other software program) together with a 360 degree panorama of the planet's surface showing some of its physical features and biota. You will complete this project by creating a title slide for your planet and an audio .wav file of 1 minute or less that will introduce your planet and its features. We will visit the Bishop Planetarium where the images you have created will be modeled and viewed in the dome theater. These images will be accompanied by a brief description of your planet's physical and biota characteristics in an entry you construct for the Encyclopedia Galactica.
In the second third of the course, the entry you have created for your planet, together with reduced size image files for your planetskin and panorama will form the starting point for a more detailed entry in the Encyclopedia Galactica, a Twine2 hypertext environment that you will help construct and which details a utopian culture/society that inhabits your planet. The work for this section of the course will be modeled in Twine2, an open source program.
The third segment of the course will focus on the conceptual planning of a theme park experience. This project will conclude with a presentation to the group of your concept for the park.
In addition to the completion of the three projects you are welcome to maintain a process blog on which you will post process documents each week, work completed in class, as well as any comments you want to make about the ongoing work of the semester.
The mid-term grade will be based on your work for the planetarium and a review of the process blog. The three grades for the course will be posted on the course gradebook on Canvas. The final grade will be based on a portfolio review of the three projects and the process blog during a personal conference with the student.
The purpose of this course is to provide you with an introduction to some of the basic concepts from the liberal arts that are used to create believable narrative worlds. Projects in the course are designed to help you apply the concepts you learn.
Attendance Policy is the Ringling Institutional Policy.
There will be three projects for this course. The first project involves the creation of an exo-planet in the "goldilocks" zone of a distant star. The planet will have its own planetary ecosystem and carbon-based biota. Suitable in some way for human habitation. This project will take place over the first third of the course. Each student will be required to create a planet skin (in photoshop or other software program) together with a 360 degree panorama of the planet's surface showing some of its physical features and biota. You will complete this project by creating a title slide for your planet and an audio .wav file of 1 minute or less that will introduce your planet and its features. We will visit the Bishop Planetarium where the images you have created will be modeled and viewed in the dome theater. These images will be accompanied by a brief description of your planet's physical and biota characteristics in an entry you construct for the Encyclopedia Galactica.
In the second third of the course, the entry you have created for your planet, together with reduced size image files for your planetskin and panorama will form the starting point for a more detailed entry in the Encyclopedia Galactica, a Twine2 hypertext environment that you will help construct and which details a utopian culture/society that inhabits your planet. The work for this section of the course will be modeled in Twine2, an open source program.
The third segment of the course will focus on the conceptual planning of a theme park experience. This project will conclude with a presentation to the group of your concept for the park.
In addition to the completion of the three projects you are welcome to maintain a process blog on which you will post process documents each week, work completed in class, as well as any comments you want to make about the ongoing work of the semester.
The mid-term grade will be based on your work for the planetarium and a review of the process blog. The three grades for the course will be posted on the course gradebook on Canvas. The final grade will be based on a portfolio review of the three projects and the process blog during a personal conference with the student.
