UFCFY5-30-1Multimedia Studio An Introduction to the Module.

UFCFY5-30-1Multimedia Studio

Multimedia Studio

An Introduction to the Module


Multimedia Studio

Module Team

Barry Dean (Module Leader)

Lindsey Howell


Agenda

Themes Overview of Content Software Assessment Essential Reading


Module Themes

Moving Image Multimedia Sound Production Coding for Interactive Media Graphics and Still Image Capture File Devices and Deployment


Moving Image

Use and application of 3D Modelling and Animation systems for the generation of multimedia content and associated development scenarios.

Video capture and editing, video formats, post- production effects, planning, storyboarding, setup and connectivity.


Multimedia Sound Production

Creating and editing sound for multimedia scenarios Hardware associated with sound production Software applications used in sound production Connectivity aspects of using hardware and software

devices Copyright aspects and digital rights management


Coding for Interactive Media

Programming fundamentals: variables, data types, logic control structures, testing and debugging. deployment emulation.

Designing and coding programs, processing data, handling program events and user interaction.

Object-Oriented Programming concepts and implementation.


Graphics and Image Capture

Text and font characteristics Image editing techniques: scaling, transforming,

applying filters, optimizing, composite images, vector graphics.

Various graphics file formats, e.g. JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA

Photographic technologies and related equipment


File Devices and Deployment

File formats, storage media: CDROM, DVD, Flash Memory, current and device connectivity: Blue Tooth, Firewire, USB3

Deployment technologies: HTML5, Web GL, CSS3, Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, Java, AS3 and other formats.


Module Software

The module will feature the following software applications: Adobe Master Collection

Flash (interactive content development with Action Script 3.0), Fireworks (web-friendly graphics application) Photoshop (de-facto industry-standard graphics studio) Premiere (video editing and compositing) After Effects (post production editing and effects)

Autodesk Maya (3D modelling and animation studio) ProTools (Digital Audio Workstation ‘DAW’ for creating, editing

and arranging for sound-track compositions) Audacity (free open-source cross-platform audio editor) Various utility applications e.g. zip file extractors


Autodesk Student Licences

Autodesk currently provides three-year licences for students.

Register with your UWE email at: http://students.autodesk.com (there is a link on the programme homepage)

Once registered you can access a range of free software including Maya, Sketchbook and many other industry-standard software applications.


Module Assessment

Your assessment for this module consists of the followingcomponents:

Multimedia assignment with supporting documentation Website portfolio with supporting documentation Examination (2 hours duration)

Component weightings:

Multimedia Assignment (35%)

Website Portfolio (35%)

Exam (30%)


UWE Student Website

As a UWE student you have a student website hosted on the department’s Unix server

Your website homepage URL is: http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~yourusername e.g. my username is bk2-dean and my homepage is

at: http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~bk2-dean Students’ websites are not externally visible by

default, but this provides a cover when using copyrighted artwork and media for assignments etc.


Website Portfolio

You will be expected to carry out four tutorial

activities which will contribute to your portfolio assessment component.

Each activity will be awarded a mark for its completion and web deployment where appropriate.


Essential Reading

Savage, T.M, Vogel, K.E. (2013)

An Introduction to Digital Multimedia, Second Edition, Jones and Bartlett

[ISBN 144968839X]

Priced around £35 less 25% UWE negotiated

discount from publisher = £26.25

See www.uwedigitalmedia.com

UFCFY5-30-1Multimedia Studio An Introduction to the Module.

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