This course provides a detailed examination of screen based media in both popular cinema and interactive games. Principles of narrative structure are introduced, with a detailed examination of the roles of archetype, genre and myth in the development of narrative experience. Students undertake creative exercises in the development of scenarios based on these principles.

These concepts lead into a detailed examination of the games media its history and current developments in both technology and gameplay as they relate to use experience. Different games are explored from a theoretical point of view, while students develop original scenarios for their own games.