Exploring
Digital Multimedia for CDROM and the Web
Professor: Terry Towery (terryt@lehman.cuny.edu)
Office Hours
Prerequisites: Macintosh and Adobe Photoshop skills
Online Resources
Description:
This course is designed to give you a fundamental working knowledge of the tools
available for producing multimedia projects in the digital realm. You will become
proficient with the tools necessary to successfully complete a multimedia project.
Current uses of this material can be found in: business presentations, interactive
CDROMs, educational titles, commercial consumer titles and the fine art world.
The advent of the World Wide Web and CDROM will continue to have a profound
effect on the way that artists disseminate their images. Hands on assignments
will be given to familiarize you with the tools necessary to create a multimedia
presentation. Since the technology is changing so rapidly, the course will
be flexible in its content and structure. Since much of the classroom time will
consist of demonstrations and lectures, I will expect the student to spend time
outside of class preparing their projects and doing research. However, there
will be many class periods when I will have lab times on certain class days
so students should come prepared to work to all classes. Failure to do so may
be considered an absence from class.
Materials required:
at least 2 100 mb Zip disk (for this class only!)
1-3 CDROM Recordable discs (discussion forthcoming)
Textbook:
Director Demystified. By Jason Roberts Peachpit Press
OPTIONAL advanced book: Lingo Sorcery : The Magic of Lists, Objects and Intelligent Agents by Peter Small
Class participation and in class assignments are 10% of the grade. In class discussion and critique of outside class projects will be stressed.
Oral presentation is 10%
Midterm project is 30% of the grade
Final project is 50% of the grade
Calendar:
| week 1 | Course goals set out. Introductory lecture. Demonstration of existing multimedia titles. A working definition of multimedia | First assignment:DUE AS MIDTERM Create a halloween animation |
| week 2 | Introduction to Macromedias Director. Preparing files for your projects. Planning projects. Storyboards and platform considerations. | Submit a design document/proposal for your midterm next class. |
| week 3 | Photoshop and ImageReady for multimedia.Pallettes (CLUTs) introduced. Resolution considerations, bit depth discussed, gamma. Continue with Director. Animation. | Create your own elements for animation |
| week 4 | Adding interactivity. Continue with Director. Shockwave discussed. | Make an online interactive widget. Send me the URL! |
| week 5 | SoundEdit 16 introduced. Stupid sound tricks. Using audio in director. Continue with Director. | Add sounds to your halloween project |
| week 6 | Adobe Premiere introduced. Video editing concepts. | Edit together provided clips into short video |
| week 7 | Using video in director. Continue with Director | |
| week 8 | MIDTERM CRITIQUE - ASSIGNMENT DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS! | Submit proposals for final project |
| week 9 | Continue with Director. | |
| week 10 | Lingo | TBA |
| week 11 | More Lingo | TBA |
| week 12 | More Lingo | |
| week 13 | Oral Presentations | TBA |
| week 14 | Final considerations e.g.; packaging, compression, and delivery. | |
| week 15 | FINAL PROJECTS DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS! NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED! |