SI 553: Multimedia Production

Teaches students how to express themselves in terms of integrated media, develops skill and expertise in nonlinear writing, teaches how to engage audiences in the ongoing action, and embodies their creations in rich visual imagery that entertains as well as instructs.

Learn the foundations and theory of the various image systems that together form integrated media. Create basic, integrated media presentations using current off-the-shelf commercial software for desktop machines. Librarians, archivists, school media specialists, aspiring writers, collectors, and anyone else who owns the rights to or who is affiliated with an organization that owns and publishes content -- especially content with unique visual and/or auditory characteristics -- want to bring this content to life using integrated media, one of the newest and most exciting forms of human communication.

A first step for students who want to become a player in the fledgling business of integrated media publishing as a creative director, interface designer, editor, content expert, writer, animator, or evaluator of new products. Follow-on courses might include an intermediate integrated media course that includes additional techniques, such as three-dimensional animation and Quicktime VR; one that is connected with SI practical engagement activities; and those in virtual reality and video communications that are currently taught in the College of Engineering.

Integrated media productions and techniques for processing digital artifacts (e.g., audio, video, animation) are extensible to the World-Wide Web. Students who enroll in this course are not expected to have outstanding artistic skills or prior knowledge of integrated media tools. Although students will be expected to create simple animations, illustrations, or collages, and capture stills, video or audio shorts, they will be members of teams on which students will pool their talents to create a unique integrated media production.