Digital Multimedia
Digital Multimedia provides studio experience in multimedia concepts and techniques including video editing, compositing, motion graphic design, sound editing, and multimedia interface design through the creation of time-based works of art.
SYLLABUS:
MAJOR ASSIGNMENT LIST:
| # |
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Due: |
| 1 |
Still Image Assignment |
Week 3 |
| 2 |
Documentary Project |
Week 6 |
| 4 |
Time-based Multimedia Project + DVD Interface - [FINAL} |
Week 17 |
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WEEKLY SCHEDULE + DIGITAL ASSETS:
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Assignment: Still Image AssignmentDue: Week 3
- Set up your class web page.
- View the Adobe.com video lessons posted above.
- Skim the Adobe DV primer posted above.
- Start gathering images and music for your Still Image Assignment project.
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Assignment: Still Image AssignmentDue: Week 3
- Work on your Still Image Assignment project.
- Consider custom motion/animation for image.
- Consider syncing the timing of your transitions with the audio.
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Assignment: Video Editing ProjectDue: Week 6
- Familiarize yourself with the NMA stock video collection and audio library.
- Begin planning your documentary video. Start by writing down potential ideas, then come up with a concept to execute. Prepare to shoot your own video.
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Assignment: Video Editing ProjectDue: Week 6
- You should be shooting video and capturing it this week.
- Start your Premiere project, and try to put together a rough cut/1st draft.
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Assignment: Video Editing ProjectDue: Week 6
- Watch all of the above video lessons on After Effects.
- By now you should be done with principal production (gathering music + video, shooting video, recording audio, etc.) and working on your editing.
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia Project [MIDTERM]Due: Week 10
- Start thinking of project ideas for your midterm.
- Write up a film treatment - consider including standard pre-production elements such as a brief project description/synopsis, sketches, a written script, storyboard, etc.).
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia Project [MIDTERM]Due: Week 10
- Watch the video lessons on 3D in After Effects, conduct a few 3D tests in After Effects, then place 320x240 FLV versions of your tests into an html page using SWFObject. See John Doe's 3D AE Tests for an example.
- Continue working on your midterm project. Be prepared to show a first draft to me next week.
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia ProjectDue: Week 10
- Watch the video lesson on Cut-out animation in After Effects (Guinness Commercial), conduct a quick test in After Effects, then place a 320x240 FLV version of your test into an html page using SWFObject. See John Doe's Cut-out AE Test for an example.
- Convert your previous assignments to FLV format and post them onto your UH website using SWFObject.
- Continue working on your midterm project. Be prepared to show a second draft to me next week.
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia ProjectDue: Week 10
- Change of plans for Art 222 Digital Multimedia for the rest of the semester! You have the option to either (choose one):
- continue working on what started as your midterm project and now it will be your final project - in this case a draft is due next week and this single/large project will be worth 200 points, or
- stop working on the midterm altogether right away, and start a completely new project for the final (200pts) - in this case an animatic/story reel (ie. animated storyboard in motion set to time/audio) would be due next week, or
- stay the course as originally planned by finishing the midterm for next week (100pts) and then beginning the final project afterward (100pts).
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia ProjectDue: Week 17
- Over the break make, continue working on your final project and consider making changes to your project that were suggested during the midterm critique.
- Begin working on your first drafts.
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia ProjectDue: Week 17
- Continue working on your final project.
- Be prepared to show a draft in class next week.
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia ProjectDue: Week 17
- Continue working on your final project.
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia ProjectDue: Week 17
- Continue working on your final project.
- Be prepared to show a draft in class next week.
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia ProjectDue: Week 17
- If you haven't done so already, you should be thinking about your DVD and web interface that will display your video(s).
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Assignment: Time-based Multimedia ProjectDue: Week 17
- At this point you should be done or putting the final touches on your final video and working on your DVD and web interfaces.
