Courses

Digital media production is the study of media creation and display through online and interactive experiences. This includes audio and video steaming in online contexts, but it also covers other types of new media that are hybrids of the two. Using various multimedia systems and formats, you will explore the foundations of development, content creation and distribution across multiple platforms. Focusing on multi-platform digital media, you will have the opportunity to write, produce and edit your own digital media content for online distribution.

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Discuss various digital media production workflows from concept to distribution.
• Differentiate between media formats and choose appropriate actions for initiating and completing media projects.
• Produce, design, record and edit original content for websites, podcasts, and video.
• Identify various software and hardware interface items and define their function.
• Develop, organize, and create content optimized for various media distribution formats.

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 multi-part investigative 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.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Plan and develop investigative 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.