Digital Media

Program: BFA: DES 483 Electronic Imaging V: Multimedia

Professional skills for the construction of interactive multimedia presentations for CD-ROM and the Internet. Research, navigation, and interface design are emphasized. Central to the course is the development of technical proficiencies to author with image, text, animation, audio, and video. This course emphasizes the solving of a wide range of communication and technical problems as well as the development of each student's individual vision.

Concept/Method

1. Information design
2. Complex information systems
3. Navigation systems
4. Interaction design
5. Dynamic info systems
6. Presentation design
7. Target audience
8. Flexible systems
9. The internet
10. Heuristics
11. Research/documentation
12. Cognitive psychology
13. Problem solving
14. Media convergence
15. Teaching through interactivity
16. Editing
17. Sound
18. Using technology

Media/Technology

1. Flash
2. ActionScripting
3. Dreamweaver
4. HTML
5. CSS
6. Video capture, video codecs
7. Audio capture, mixing and effects
8. Troubleshooting
9. Sitemaps
10. Information mapping
11. Bandwidth & compressing schemes
12. Streaming media
13. Cross-platform issues
14. File management

Social & Ethical Issues

1. Professionalism
2. Appropriation
3. Copyright law/plagiarism
4. Censorship
5. Responsibility
6. Recognizing ethical dilemmas
7. Toleration/disagreement
8. Labels & stereotypes
9. Designing for diversity
10. Media filtering