Digital Media Production [17:194:507]
Course Description
This course gives students hands-on instruction in how to use digital media tools to produce interactive and media rich online stories. Students will learn key concepts and design principles in Web technologies & programming (e.g., XHTML, CSS, JavaScript), Video editing and Animation. Students will develop a website that presents a digital multimedia story, using slideshows, videos and animations. Students will learn how to capture engaging photo & video footage to create an effective multimedia experience in post-production.
Instructional Objectives
- Plan and develop multi-part digital multimedia story.
- Design and construct website that uses standard compliant XHTML, HTML5 and CSS.
- Apply video editing principles to produce concise video pieces.
- Apply animation design principles to create interactive animations.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- Plan and develop a multi-part multimedia story that is well researched.
- Capture photo & video footage that is visually engaging.
- Create storyboard of video story to be produced.
- Create and upload XHTML Web pages that are standards compliant and contain relative and absolute links, tables, images and embedded video.
- Design external Cascading Style Sheets that control the layout and visual appearance of a set of Web pages.
- Understand the Basics of JavaScript to create interactive slideshow with concise captions.
- Edit video footage to produce well structured video in post-production.
- Create animation that presents information in a well timed and interactive way.