555 Multimedia Production Course Site

• Home
• Schedule
• Lectures
  • Week 1: 1/17-22
  • Week 2: 1/23-29
  • Week 3: 1/30-2/5
  • Week 4: 2/6-12
  • Week 5: 2/13-19
  • Week 6: 2/20-26
  • Week 7: 2/27-3/5
  • Week 8: 3/6-12
  • Week 9: 3/20-26
  • Week 10: 3/27-4/2
  • Week 11: 4/3-9
  • Week 12: 4/10-16
  • Week 13: 4/17-23
  • Week 14: 4/24-30
  • Week 15: 5/1-7
• Requirements
  • Textbooks
  • LyndaCampus
  • Software
  • Grading
• Exercises
  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
  • Exercise 4
  • Exercise 5
  • Project
  • Class Exercises
  • Class Projects
  • Project Highlights

Requirements for Multimedia Production

• Textbooks
• LyndaCampus
• Software
• Grading
• Exercises - 50%
• Project - 50%

Textbooks

Required - Castro : HTML, XHTML & CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide 6th Edition - OR - Castro + Hyslop: HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide 8th Edition

Textbooks Accessible for Free from Rutgers Libraries:

• HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies (2010 - 2nd Version; Wiley) Harris, Andy.
  

• Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (2010; Wiley) Duckett, Jon.

• HTML5 24-Hour Trainer (2011; Wiley) Lowery, Joseph; Fletcher, Mark.

• HTML5 (2011; Wiley) McDaniel, Adam.

LyndaCampus

• SC&I is subscribing to a service called LyndaCampus that is a school-wide version of lynda.com, an online training library of over 80,000 video based training movies on over 1400 software titles. LyndaCampus is available for free for students registered in SC&I courses and can be used to learn software, programming skills, video techniques, etc.  
  Titles include: all of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.), all of Adobe CS6 & CC (DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash = Animate, etc.), Fundamentals of Video, iMovie, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, SPSS, Google Docs, HTML5, CSS, MySQL, PHP, Python, C/C++/C#, WordPress, etc. Students can watch the videos, follow along with exercise files, and even print a certificate of completion upon completion of a course.
• Login to LyndaCampus (when you first log into lynda, you are given the opportunity to personalize your profile).
  
• Remember: you must be logged into LyndaCampus to be able to access the lynda.com videos included in the Lectures page of this course.
• For more information and access instructions, please see http://lynda.comminfo.rutgers.edu. For any difficulties accessing the content of lynda.com please contact SC&I IT Services at help@comminfo.rutgers.edu.

Software

Required: Adobe Creative Cloud / Suite: Dreamweaver, Fireworks / Photoshop, Flash, etc.

• Adobe Creative Cloud: Adobe is now only offering a monthly subscription model (academic price is $30/month for 1 year; sometimes there are offers for $20/month available from Adobe or Rutgers Software).
• You are able to access Adobe Creative Cloud for free via Adobe Cloud for Teams offered by SC&I IT for the duration of the course (inivitation email will be sent to you with instructions for how to activate your specific details will be posted shortly).
• You can of course decide to acquire your own Creative Clould subscription (after the end of the course) so that you will be able to use the software in other courses and to deepen your expertise: many MLIS students find it a worthwhile investment.
• Adobe Creative Suite: is the previous standalone software suite offered by Adobe.
• It may still possible to purchase Creative Suite 6 (CS6), but:
• Please keep in mind that Adobe has no plans for future releases of Creative Suite or other CS products, but you can use it forever.
• Please be aware the application interfaces and some of the functionality in the Creative Cloud applications are not the same as in the Creative Suite 6 applications.
• The SC&I and several Rutgers labs have the Adobe CC software installed.
• Adobe CS6, CS5 and CS4 are fine to use in the course if you already own them, but if you are about to purchase the software, make sure to purchase CS6.
• Adobe CS3 is okay to use if you already own it, however the CS4+ interface is different and certain CS3 features are not supported anymore in CS4+.
• Video Editing
• Premiere Elements (Windows / Mac; $120; available together with Photoshop Elements for less and you can use free 30 Day trial).
• Possible to use free iMovie (Mac) and Windows Movie Maker (Win) which have basic video editing capabilities.
• Adobe Cloud users can use Premiere Pro CC for free.

Grading

Exercises (50% of Course Grade)

There will be five exercises that you will be able to resubmit :

• Exercise 1 (10%) XHTML & CSS: Create Website Evaluation – Due Week 4 | Revision Due Week 7.
• Exercise 2 (10%) Project Outline: Create Outline of Your Project Site – Due Week 6 | Revision Due Week 9.
• Exercise 3 (10%) Visual Storytelling: Create Visual Collages – Due Week 8 | Revision Due Week 11.
• Exercise 4 (10%) Navigation Design: Create Interactive Navigation Structure – Due Week 10 | Revision Due Week 13.
• Exercise 5 (10%) Animation design: Create Flash Animations / Digital Video – Due Week 12 | Revision Due Week 14.

Project (50% of Course Grade)

The exercises will form the basis for the design and content of the project (no redo):

• Project (50%) Multimedia Design – Create Multimedia Website using HTML, CSS and Flash – Due Week 15.

Contact: Anselm Spoerri