. This course focuses on storytelling skills for time-based media. These include storyboarding conventions and techniques, the visual and auditory language of time- based media, design development, concept development, animatics, and story development. Storytelling is explored first with a traditional, "continuity style" approach, and subsequently with more experimental approaches. The principles and issues presented are relevant for animation, live action, film, and video. The course focuses on understanding and manipulating the graphic language of film, video, and animation to tell a story in coherent and compelling visual terms. Emphasis is placed on the process of refinement and iterations in the development of the story. Students participate in weekly class critiques and discussion of both their own work and of professional films.