INTERMEDIATED: The ’74s — Intermedia production stream, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University

Print zine

December 14, 2009

Students wrote excellent articles about the intermedia-based projects exhibited at this year’s FNC lab at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema. The vector illustrations are well worth a look. After flipping through this zine you would never guess that most of the students have not used Photoshop or Illustrator before. The 30 page full colour print [...]

1st Year Intermedia Fall 2009 Zine

December 3, 2009

We are almost finished with the fall Intermedia 274 class. (The last class is next week). Students in the class produced some stunning designs for a print and ezine assignment. It’s hard to believe that many of the students had no experience with Photoshop and Illustrator when they began in September. For this zine project, [...]

[ ] SCAPE

May 5, 2009

[ ] SCAPE is an outstanding zine all about cultural life in Montreal, entirely produced by three students in this year’s COMS374 Intermedia II class (Myriam Descormiers, Guillaume Dubois, and Gabrielle Savoie). Full pdf available here.

Database Narrative Films (COMS374)

April 18, 2009

Last semester, the students in Intermedia II created some remarkable database narrative films using the Korsakow System. This is a piece of software that allows the user to assemble non-linear, often interactive, stories in any genre. The class met with Florian Thalhofer, the Berlin-based creator of Korsakow, and then worked in teams to develop ‘K-Films’ [...]

Storytelling assignment – Intermedia I

April 1, 2009

This year’s Intermedia I students were tasked with telling a story in four frames – using a public photobooth. A great way to think about framing, composition, performance, pacing, economical storytelling – and residual media. Lots more here and here.

Open assignment – Intermedia I

November 25, 2008

A creative response to the Biennale de Montreal 2009 ‘Open Design‘ brief. Participants are being asked for creative interpretations of a sentence provided by graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister. Watch closely! Created by Valentina Cean, Sophie Genin-Charette, Stephanie Larocque, and Pauline Béraud for COMS274 Intermedia I, Fall ’08. Instructor: Matt Soar. TAs: Shiva Majidi, Alan West.