Digital Media
Program: BFA: DES 483 Digital Media 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
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- Information design
- Complex information systems
- Navigation systems
- Interaction design
- Dynamic info systems
- Presentation design
- Target audience
- Flexible systems
- The internet
- Heuristics
- Research/documentation
- Cognitive psychology
- Problem solving
- Media convergence
- Teaching through interactivity
- Editing
- Sound
- Using technology
- Media/Technology
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- Flash
- ActionScripting
- Dreamweaver
- HTML
- CSS
- Video capture, video codecs
- Audio capture, mixing and effects
- Troubleshooting
- Sitemaps
- Information mapping
- Bandwidth & compressing schemes
- Streaming media
- Cross-platform issues
- File management
- Social & Ethical Issues
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- Professionalism
- Appropriation
- Copyright law/plagiarism
- Censorship
- Responsibility
- Recognizing ethical dilemmas
- Toleration/disagreement
- Labels & stereotypes
- Designing for diversity
- Media filtering
