Mac Studio, Z Block 108B for 35 weeks
NCFE
Multimedia / Interactive Media
on Apple Macs B01162/0506/001
(Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Imageready, Photoshop, iMovie, Final Cut, Sound Studio, iDVD, Toast, Fireworks MX and perhaps a little After Effects, Premiere, iStopmotion and Director...)
Wednesday evenings
14th Sep 2005 to 28th June 2006
NCFE Level 2: 5.30pm – 9.00pm x 35 weeks
23 Nov 2005: iStopmotion Lego pirates
30 Nov 2005: Flash with Ben & Maja Hill
07 Dec 2005: Sound Studio and iTunes - edit song demo
14 Dec 2005: Sound Studio and iTunes - shorten song and censor Xmas exercise.
21 Dec 2005: Holiday
28 Dec 2005: Holiday
04 Jan 2006: Using CSS in place of HTML font tags. Accessibility issues. Common sense is a big part. Always use Alt text, which along with proper use of the <h1>Headline tag</h1> will also help with search engine ranking. Most sites improve for ALL users once the needs of some users are considered. Testing your site with online tools such as WebXACT (previously Bobby). Lynx text only browser. Lynx user guide.
11 Jan 2006: Search Engine Optimisation
Submit to Web directories. Add links to your own site at wikipedia.org or when leaving comments at an online forum. Making informed decisions about how many of your target audience can access a feature. Domain Names.
18 Jan 2006: Blue screen keying using Final Cut Express
25 Jan 2006: Unit 05 - INVESTIGATE AND USE MOVING IMAGES IN A MULTIMEDIA PRODUCT
Filming a short sequence for editing and putting it onto a DVD, CD or
Web site. This will be a group project, featuring a script by Joe Jenkins
- The Collective,
especially rewritten for our use. Final
Draft scripts
01 Feb 2006: Editing the film sequence in iMovie or Final Cut Express
08 Feb 2006: Creating a DVD using iDVD (or DVD Studio Pro)
15 Feb 2006: Holiday Half Term
22 Feb 2006: Putting Video online
01 Mar 2006: Navigation Bars in Library items and assets
08 Mar 2006: History of the Internet and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW - wikipedia entry. Imageready rollovers
15 Mar 2006: Favicons - the 16x16 pixel images in the address bar and bookmarked favourites list: best try html-kit which also creates animated gifs, plus favicon.co.uk MicroSoft guide and Photoshop plug-in from iconfactory.com Free CSS for MX chapter from the Quickstart guide as an Acrobat pdf file.
22 Mar 2006: Animated buttons in Flash MX
29 Mar 2006: Creating a Web gallery from a folder of images quickly using Photoshop. Example from Stone Arts Ltd. Google Toolbar for Mac Firefox
05 Apr 2006: Easter Holiday - NO SESSION
12 Apr 2006: Easter Holiday - NO SESSION
19 Apr 2006: Adding advertising to cover costs or make profits. For pointers about responsible advertising, try this from Jakob Nielsen. Google Toolbar for Firefox on Mac. Image map hot spots to create links on specific areas of a picture.
26 April 2006: Confirm individual projects. Classic, simple video games can be a good source of ideas. Flash games design - creating a Space Invaders interactive game to your own design.
3 May 2006: Continuing personal projects.
10 May 2006: More Flash games design. Continuing personal projects. Start group Web site.
17 May 2006: Continuing personal projects.
24 May 2006: Continuing personal projects.
31 May 2006: HALF TERM - NO SESSION
7 June 2006: Continuing personal projects. Putting Video online revisited. Creating html e-mails.
14 June 2006: Continuing personal projects.
21 June 2006: Continuing personal projects.
28 June 2006: Last session. Completing personal projects and paperwork. Image Map hotspots.
Individual project assistance will be available.
COURSE LEADER
Jed Gibbs – 07970 821 877 (orange mobile)
college e-mail: jed.gibbs@southampton-city.ac.uk
outside of college hours jednet@mac.com
Interactive Media
on Apple Macs B01162/0506/001
(Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Imageready, Photoshop, iMovie, Final Cut, Sound Studio, iDVD, Toast, Fireworks MX and perhaps a little After Effects, Premiere, iStopmotion and Director...)
NCFE LEVEL 2 CERTIFICATE IN MULTIMEDIA DESIGN - 100/2735/X
01 - INVESTIGATE IDEAS IN THE CONTEXT OF A DESIGN BRIEF
02 - EXPLORE MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES
03 - PLAN AND PRODUCE A MULTIMEDIA PRODUCT
(Units 01 - 03 are compulsory, plus unit 05 from 04 - 06)
05 - INVESTIGATE AND USE MOVING IMAGES IN A MULTIMEDIA PRODUCT
free online shopping cart systems :
www.oscommerce.org .php and MySQL system which can be run on Macs, Linux and Windows
www.comersus.com .asp system for Windows IIS servers and can be administered from Macs, Linux and Windows. Advanced features require purchase of a range of options.
recommended paid-for e-commerce solution :
http://www.easywebstore.co.uk good telephone support, cheap, £30 set up, £20 per month thereafter, no long contract. Flexible interface, well integrated with online merchant payment systems such as paypal or the better alternatives such as nochex and protx. No limit on web space or traffic.
alternatives include actinic.com1and1.com, ecommercetemplates.com and ekmpowershop.com
www.jednet.co.uk