Digital Media 2: Advanced Video/Audio

Subject 760-542 (2009)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2009.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 9 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject is not offered in 2009.
Time Commitment: Total Time Commitment: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial/computer laboratory session per week contact hours/week , Four hours computer-based work and three hours reading/research per week additional hours/week. Total of Ten hours per week hours per week.
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements:

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Contact

Peter Morse
Phone: 8344 8358
Objectives:
  • be able to develop complex visual effects using a variety of software packages;
  • be able to prepare video material for multiple delivery vectors for DVD, broadband broadcast, and web based delivery;
  • be able to understand the principles and possibilities of digital video and the creative analytical thought required to author works in the medium;
  • be able to demonstrate creativity and innovation in the development of unique visual effects and presentation possibilities for digital video;
  • be able to demonstrate research skills, software skills, analytical skills concerning technical and aesthetic issues, conceptual skills and creative thinking.
Prescribed Texts:
Recommended Texts: Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Volume 1: The Essentials (2nd Edition, Version 5.5) by Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer. Publisher: CMP Books; 2nd Book and CD-ROM edition (September 2002). ISBN: 1578201144 Andrey Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema by Andrey Tarkovsky, Kitty Hunter-Blair (Translator), Andrei Tarkovsky. #Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr; Reprint edition (May 1989). ISBN: 0292776241 The Art and Science of Digital Compositing by Ron Brinkmann. Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; Book and CD-ROM edition (June 15, 1999) ISBN: 0121339602
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills:

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