Description:

This course is a hands-on workshop which offers a graduate level foundation in digital media production. Image acquisition, creation and editing; video editing and encoding; simple HTML and Flash are technologies and delivery platforms explored through short conceptual exercises. The curriculum in this class emphasizes problem solving and an integrated and creative approach to digital media production. It is designed to give students a basic introduction to begin working fluidly across the tools and techniques used in the Integrated Media Graduate program. Each student will be expected to grow from his or her starting level; therefore students familiar with some tools will be expected to develop in areas related design and/or programming. All students will organize and backup work and turn in cd/dvd of their collected archive for the final class. Attendance at several media related arts events will be required. Students must own at least a 128 MB pen drive and have their work tested and functioning on Hunter computers before class begins. The book Digital Art by Christiane Paul and Kimberly Elam's Grid Systems are required reading, and can be purchased at the bookstore or online. This course may be counted towards the VISIONS or CHANNELS cluster requirement.

Syllabus: here

Links:

Conceptual:

Semiotics for Beginners
--http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/

Image Composition
--http://www.worldforge.org/media/documents/docs3d/tutorials/composition

Cognitive Perception
--http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/blink/

Design

--current web styles http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm
--wikipedia design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_design
--visual language of graphic design http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Graphic-Design/Expert-Design/Expert-Design.html
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Digital Imaging basics

--Digital Imaging Tutorial http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/intro/intro-01.html
--http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/graphics/digital/

Type

Thinking with Type
--http://graphicdesign.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=graphicdesign&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thinkingwithtype.com%2F

Letter Styles
--http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/fontsandtypography/tp/categories.htm

Photoshop

Basic Concepts in Digital Imaging
--http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/graphics/digital/

Cutting images out
--http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/blrbps_4abfly.htm

Pen Tool
--http://members.aol.com/clehan/tips/pentool.pdf

Curves
--http://www.websitetips.com/info/ps5.5/pschannels.html
--http://www.digitalsecrets.net/secrets/curves.html
--http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/curves1.html

Channels
--http://www.arraich.com/ps6_tips_channels1.htm

Digital Camera Stuff ISO and Digital Grain - --http://www.betterdigitalonline.com/HTML%20Files/isocontrol.html
--http://www.dansdata.com/digicam.htm#Sensitivity

http://www.mccannas.com/pshop/photosh0.htm [excellent, mf]

http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html [mf]

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/ Online Photoshop News, Tips, and Tutorials Photoshop Roadmap: Photoshop Informational Resource Webmonkey: A web developer's resource page including guides and "cheetsheets" for html, javascript, and more. Adobe Support Forums: Adobe's user to user support forums.

Web Development

--Online Web tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/

General great tutorial site http://www.good-tutorials.com/

http://www.webmonkey.com Web developer's resource site with tutorials and information on graphics software

Dreamweaver

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/authoring/html_basics/ [mf] HTML cheat sheet http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/[mf] HTML primer http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/basics.html [mf]

http://www.udel.edu/learn/dreamweaver/ Dreamweaver Handouts from the University of Delaware

FLASH
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_guide_05.html

student examples
http://fmfileserver.hunter.cuny.edu/~ovallej/

Flash basic tutorials (tweening, visuals, etc) http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/default.asp

http://www.flashdeveloper.nl/g_flash_Tutorials.html {mf} macromedia actionscript support center http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts.html

http://www.actionscript.org

http://www.w3schools.com/flash/default.asp

http://www.kirupa.com/

Video Compression

take a look see at: http://www.sorenson.com/support/faq.php

http://www.csuchico.edu/atec/projects/tigers/video_test/compression.html

http://www.synthetic-ap.com/qt/codec2.html