Digital Media Essentials – ART 1800

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Calendar

January 11

  • Introduction to Class/Syllabus
  • Get to Know Each Other
  • File Management
  • What is Multimedia?
  • Assignment: Vocab Sheet 1 due next class

January 13

  • Basic Computer Parts & Terms
  • The 4 Stages of a Multimedia Project
  • Overview of Workspaces
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Vocab 1 Due
  • Assignment: Vocab Sheet 2 + Read Ref 1 and 2 by next class

January 18

  • Martin Luther King Day — No Class

January 20

January 25

  • Assignment 1 Goes Out
  • Research and Identify Your Project and Target Market
  • Photoshop:
    • The Workspace
    • Setting up a Print Project & Resolution
    • Basic Preferences
  • Illustrator:
    • The Workspace
    • Setting up a Project
    • Basic Preferences

January 27

  • Photoshop:
    • Destructive vs. Non-Destructive Editing
    • Working with Layers
    • Combining Multiple Images
    • Selections
  • Assignment: Vocab Sheet 3 due by next class

February 1

  • Illustrator:
    • Working with Layers
    • Creating Vector Shapes
    • Working with Type
  • Vocab 3 Due

February 3

  • Photoshop:
    • Working with Type
    • Color Corrections
    • Layer Effects
  • Assignment 1 Due

February 8

  • Assignment 2 Goes Out
  • CD Cover & Web Rollovers
  • Photoshop:
    • Setting up a Web Project

February 10

  • Photoshop:
    • Creative Filtration
    • Masks
    • Blending Modes

February 15

  • President's Day — No Class

February 17

  • Integration Between Photoshop & Illustrator
  • What is Placing
  • Links and What They Mean
  • End of Assignment 1 Grace Period

February 22

  • Preparing your final project for print or web

February 24

  • Full Lab Day
  • Assignment 2 Due
  • Assignment: Vocab Sheet 4 due by next class

March 1

  • Assignment 3 Goes Out (Website Animation)
  • Principles of Animation
  • Flash:
    • Workspace overview
    • Setting up your project
    • Creating Shapes
  • Vocab Sheet 4 Due

March 3

  • Flash:
    • Shape Tween
    • Motion Tween
    • Frame by Frame

March 8

  • Flash:
    • Basic Action Script
    • Saving and Exporting

March 10

  • Full Lab Day
  • Assignment 3 Due
  • Assignment: Vocab Sheet 5 due by next class
  • End of Assignment 2 Grace Period

March 15–19

  • Spring Break — No Class

March 22

  • Assignment 4 Goes Out (Class Video)
  • Overview of the stages of a video project
  • Preproduction for our project
  • Project position sign up
  • Make plans for production
  • Premiere:
    • Workspace
    • Setting up our project
  • Vocab Sheet 5 Due

March 24

  • Production for our video project
  • Premiere:
    • Log and Capture
    • Organizing Bins
  • End of Assignment 3 Grace Period

March 29

March 31

  • Premiere:
    • Transitions
    • Alpha Masks
    • Effects
    • Titles

April 5

  • Premiere:
    • Exporting
  • Assignment 4 Due
  • Assignment: Vocab Sheet 6 due by next class

April 7

  • Assignment 5 Goes Out (Creating a Sound Mix)
  • Sound principles
  • Premiere (Sound):
    • Audio Editing Windows
    • Importing Clips
    • Working with tracks
  • Vocab Sheet 6 Due

April 12

  • Premiere (Sound):
    • Keyframes
    • Effects
    • Exporting

April 14

  • Lab Day

April 19

  • Assignment 6 Goes Out (Your Promotional Website)
  • History of Web Design
  • Principles of Good Web Design
  • Planning a Website
  • Basic HTML
  • Dreamweaver:
    • Overview of the Workspace
    • Setting up a Project in Dreamweaver
  • Assignment 5 Due
  • Assignment: Vocab Sheet 7 due by next class
  • End of Assignment 4 Grace Period

April 21

  • Dreamweaver:
    • Tables
    • Basic Page Properties
    • Working with Text
    • Basic CSS
  • Vocab Sheet 7 Due

April 26

  • Dreamweaver:
    • Inserting Pictures
    • Rollovers
    • Inserting Flash Animations
    • Links
    • Uploading to a server
    • Burning to a disc

April 28

  • Lab Day
  • Assignment 6 Due End of Class
  • End of Assignment 5 & 6 Grace Period

May 3