1-4 Friday afternoon Eder 221
Convergent
Capstone is an advanced class that combines all of the knowledge, theory and
practical experience with the media and technology learned in previous
classes. This course is designed
for graduating seniors and serves to integrate elements of text, sound, video,
animations and graphics to produce professional-quality large projects for the
web.
Instructor
Instructor: Bob Bergland
email address:
bergland@missouriwestern.edu
Homepage:
staff.missouriwestern.edu/~bergland
Office:
Eder 221
Phone: 271-4446
Home
phone: 279-1699 (between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.) Office Hours: 11-12 MWF, 1-3 W
Required Materials
Readings, as
assigned
USB Flash Drive (Preferably 2+ GB), Mini-DV tape
Course Goals
The course is designed to help you
¥ 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
¥ Build upon the
familiarity with and knowledge of multimedia-related software
¥
Learn how to work with others to create one large multimedia project
¥
Produce one solo project which showcases your skills across the various media.
Groundrules
¥ Attendance: Regular attendance is required. Missing more than one class period can result in a lower
course grade.
¥ 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. Be sure to appropriately
credit any work done by others in your multimedia projects.
¥ Disabilities: Students with a disability that may
affect their performance in this class should contact me individually as soon
as possible.
Assignments
Group Project
The
group project will entail you working with the other members of the course to
produce one large multimedia project. The project should be one that could not be handled by
one person alone. Examples: Missouri Western 40th
anniversary, entertainment options in St. Joseph for college students, Chiefs
training camp.
Proposal Memo: 25
Individual
evaluative/Post-analysis memo: 25
Project: 450 (Individual portions:
200, overall group project: 250
Individual
project
The individual project
should be smaller in scope, but still more all-encompassing
than projects worked on in other classes.
You should pick something that could not be done overnight, or even in
the space of a week or two. The
project should include at least the following items: one written story, one
video package, one audio package, one slideshow and one interactive graphic
done in Flash. You should think of
these as minimums, however, as A projects will contain more multimedia
elements. Examples: Sports season
preview (such an overview of the spring sports teams), Series of features on
interesting classes/professors/students, semester-long series of related news
stories (construction, budget, etc.), full season package of a sport (complete
football or basketball season).
Proposal Memo: 25
Evaluative/Post-analysis
memo: 25
Project: 450
Grading scale: 90/80/70/60