Schedule
| Week |
Monday Lecture |
Wednesday Lecture |
Friday Lab |
| 1 |
JAN 21: First Day of Class Course Intro 1.1.1 Relevance of Binary to Digital Media 1.2 Analog vs. Digital Representations Chapter 1.pptx Chapter 1.ppt |
JAN 23: Lab 0 We are going to meet for 45 minutes to make sure your accounts work, the applications work, and downloading video works. |
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2 |
JAN 26: 1.3-1.7 Review of Bits and Bytes |
JAN 28: 1.8-1.9 Overview of files sizes and file compression |
JAN 30: Lab 1 - Digital Images Concepts: Image resolution, color depth, file sizes, file types, and general image compression strategies. Practical: Using pixels per inch to optimize printed images, and using resolution to optimize images for the web. |
3 |
FEB 2: 2.1-2.6 Bitmaps vs. Vectors Chapter 2.pptx Chapter 2.ppt |
FEB 4: 2.1-2.6 Bitmaps vs. Vectors continued... |
FEB 6: Lab 2 - Bitmaps vs.Vectors Concepts: Pros and cons of representing images and animations using bitmap and vector formats. Practical: Creating animated gifs with Fireworks and creating basic vector animations with Flash. |
4 |
FEB 9: 2.7-2.9 Representing Color |
FEB 11: 2.7-2.9 Representing Color continued... |
FEB 13: Lab 3 - Fun with Colors Concepts: Color manipulation and color depth. Practical: Techniques for extracting colors from photos and creating custom color palettes for web page designs. |
5 |
FEB 16: 3.1-3.8 Capturing and Editing Images continued... |
FEB 18: EXAM #1 |
FEB 20: No Lab |
6 |
FEB 23: No Class | FEB 25: No Class | FEB 27: No Lab |
7 |
MAR 2: 6.1 - 6.5 Digital Video Fundamentals Chapter 6.pptx Chapter 6.ppt |
MAR 4: 6.1 - 6.5 Digital Video Fundamentals continued... |
MAR 6: Lab 4 - Digital Video I Concepts: Timeline editing, slicing, video compression, composition Practical: Downloading video from youTube and mashing it up with iMovie. |
8 |
MAR 9: Text, audio, and moving pictures composed and synchronized together are often more valuable than the sum of the individual parts. |
MAR 11: 6.5 - 6.11 Digital Video continued... |
MAR 13: Lab 5 - Digital Video II Concepts: Integration of video, audio, still images, text, and animation. Practical: Creating a high quality multimedia production (the Spring Break project) |
9 |
MAR 16: Interesting Composition Presentation - briefly present an interesting composition of text, audio, or moving pictures. |
Mar: 18: Interesting Composition Presentation - briefly present an interesting composition of text, audio, or moving pictures. |
MAR 20: Lab 6 - Fun with Animation Concepts: Frame-by-frame animation and synchronization concepts Practical: Creating a frame-by-frame animation from still photographic images (Lego Minifigures). |
10 |
MAR 23: |
MAR 25: Chapter 6 Review.pptx Chapter 6 Review.ppt |
MAR 27: Lab 7 - Frame-based vs Tweened Animation Concepts: Frame-by-frame animation vs. vector-based tweened animation. Practical: Using Flash to add tweened animation effects to your frame-by-frame animations (Lego mini-figure project continued...) |
11 |
MAR 30: EXAM #2 |
APR 1: Introducing digital audio How MP3 format change the world of music... |
APR 3: Lab 8 - Final Project... |
12 |
APR 6: 4.1 - 4.6 Digital Audio |
APR 8: 4.6 - 4.8 Digital Audio continued... |
APR 10: No Lab |
13 |
APR 13: No Class | APR 15: 4.6 - 4.8 Digital Audio continued... |
APR 17: Lab 9 - Interactive Media |
14 |
APR 20: |
APR 22: 8.1 - 8.3 Flash and interactive media |
APR 24: No Lab |
15 |
APR 27: Future of Multimedia |
APR 29: No Class |
MAY 1: Lab 10 - DVD production of final project |
16 |
MAY 4: Last Day of Class Please fill out your evaluations on line: http://studentevals.com/login.aspx?s=siena Final Exam Review |
May 6: Final Exam RB328 8:30-10:30AM |