3:30-6:20 Wednesday evening FA
204
Multimedia
Authoring is an advanced class
which outlines the history, principles and theories of multimedia. This course examines how elements
of text, sound, video, animations and graphics work together to produce
electronic products for the web, CD/DVD and other distribution formats. Students learn appropriate multimedia
software to create individual or small group multimedia projects.
Instructor
Instructor:
Bob Bergland
email
address:
bergland@missouriwestern.edu
Homepage:
staff.missouriwestern.edu/~bergland
Office:
EDER 221a
Phone: 271-4446
Home
phone: 279-1699 (between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.)
Office Hours: 11-12 MWF; 1-3 MW
Required Materials
Flash drive, preferably 2 MB or above. Mini-DV tape.
Course Goals
The course is designed to help you
¥ Learn about the
history, present and possible future of multimedia, especially as it relates to
journalism, public relations and technical communication
¥ Understand
the theories of multimedia design/authoring
¥ Analyze
professional examples of multimedia projects and learn how to employ those
"best practices" in your own work
¥ Increase your portfolio size, diversity and quality
¥ Hone your
rhetorical and technical skills in creating and manipulating and combining
various individual media (photos, graphics, text, sound, video, animation,
etc.)
¥ Improve your
computer skills in general and your knowledge of multimedia-related programs in
particular
Groundrules
¥ Attendance: Regular attendance is required. Much of the learning and work in a
class such as this happens in the classroom, and whatever you miss cannot be
made up or obtained from notes.
Consequently, missing more than
five hours will lower your course grade by 50 points for each hour missed. This is a night class, and each
class period is the equivalent of one week of class time, so it is imperative
you be in class as much as possible. Excessive tardiness or leaving early
without prior notice may also be considered an absence of an hour. If you miss more than five course
hours, then to have an excused absence you must both call me beforehand and
provide documentation for the excuse by the next class period. It is a good
idea to inform me of planned absences; at the very least, be sure to
talk to a classmate about what you missed.
¥ Assignments. Because of the nature of
multimedia, you will need to turn
in your documents electronically, either through a CD, the web or USB drive
¥
Plagiarism: An
act of plagiarism or other academic dishonesty usually results in an F for the
course.
¥ Disabilities: Students with a disability that may
affect their performance in this class should contact me individually as soon
as possible.
Assignments
Short projects 100
points
These assignments are small in scope and designed to
help you learn individual media components before venturing into larger-scale
projects which combine the various media.
These are graded on a pass-fail basis, with a 25-pt deduction for each
project not completed
--Creating a Flash animation
--Digitizing and editing video
--Digitizing and editing sound
--Photoshop manipulation/improvement of a photo
--Creating and altering graphics
--Reading essays
Print documentation on a multimedia application 200
points
Documentation (100),
Presentation (50)
Proposal and
analysis/revision memos (25 each)
Video documentation project 150
Motion Screen capture document project 150
Flash Explanatory project 150
Presentation on multimedia use in industry 100
Analysis of professional multimedia project 50
Web portfolio of projects 50
2 critiques @25 pts each 50
Total:
1000 points. Grading
Scale: 90/80/70/60
Schedule
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Jan. 14 |
Intro to Multimedia |
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Jan. 21 |
Sound Editing, critique of MM project |
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Jan. 28 |
Photo shooting and editing, print documentation |
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Feb. 4 |
Print documention work |
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Feb. 11 |
Video shooting |
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Feb. 18 |
Video editing |
Print documentation project |
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Feb. 25 |
Web page design and creation |
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March 4 |
Creating graphics |
Video documentation project |
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March 18 |
Flash I-Animation |
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March 25 |
Flash II-Interactive |
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April 1 |
Interactive graphics, presentations |
Motion screen capture |
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April 8 |
Conferences, work on final project |
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April 15 |
Presentations, Work on final project |
Presentations |
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April 22 |
Show and tell |
Flash project |
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April 25? |
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