Multimedia
S Y L L A B U S --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPROACHES TO MULTIMEDIA This course will allow students to became acquainted with digital and vector image editing, digital sound and video editing as well as animation and Web page development. Students will learn both the aesthetic and technical aspects of multimedia design and production using various software programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustrator, Adobe ImageReader, Gimp, Audacity, Windows MovieMaker and VirtulaDub. The students will explore advanced Photoshop techniques for collaging, color correction, palette adjustment, compression, layering, resolution and format adjustment, as well as movie construction, sound recording and editing. Students will obtain a broad understanding of the nature and application of multimedia components within interactive computer systems, namely graphics, animation, video (MPEG, AVI) and audio formats; fonts, colors and resolution, binary and vector graphics principles, approaches to animation, real-time requirements, sampling rates, mono/stereo/binaural, data compression. This course provides students with the skills needed to design, prepare and develop multimedia resources for various forms of multimedia publishing including Web pages. This class will conclude with the creation of two projects. We will use following applications: - Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Illustrator - Adobe ImageReady: - Macromedia Flash - AVS AudioUtilities - VirtualDub Projects for choice: 1. Collage image with filters and decorative text apply. 2. Baner i rollover effect apply to own WEB site. 3. Flash animation. 4. Musical composition. Theory: Digital graphic: bitmaps and vectors. Colorimetry fundamentals. Layers, masks, canals, path concepts. Tonal enchancement: levels and curves. Image formats and specifications. Compression formats and codecs of audio/wideo files. Recording, edition, conversion. Popular audio/wideo application. Bibliography: V. Osińska, G. Osiński. Multimedia, UMK, Toruń, 2005 (see the frame nearby) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evaluation: 20% Class Preparation and Participation 80% Final Projects Criteria for Grading: - Aesthetics in Design - Creativity/Originality - Effective Use of the Software Tools - Following Teacher’s Guidelines
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