COURSE DESCRIPTION

Examines how to develop animated multimedia projects using a time-based software package; covers how to program in the scripting language of the multimedia software.

REQUIREMENTS:

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Attendance is required.

MATERIALS:

Two zip disks

TEXT:

Director 8 Demystified by Gross and Roberts, Edition 1, PeachPit Press

CALENDAR:

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COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

1. develop cross-platform animated projects;
2. design storyboards for the layout of large projects;
3. create custom handlers for use in animation software;
4. build and utilize functions and variables;
5. work with multiple casts and digital movies;
6. control scripted sprites;
7. create "shocked" movies for the Internet;
8. use computer design concepts and apply them in critiques;
9. apply interface skills to enhance user interaction;
10. apply team concepts to large scale corporate style projects.

MAJOR TOPICS

I. Comparison of Multimedia Utilities
    A.  Card based
    B.  Icon based
    C.  Time synchronized
II.   Animation terminology and concepts
    A.   Windows
    B.   Behaviors
    C.   Messages
    D.   Scripting concepts
III.  Navigation
    A.   Commands, keywords, and functions
    B.   Score reconstruction
    C.   Using vector graphics
IV.  Digital Video
    A.   Control commands 
    B.   Using local and global variables
    C.   Scripting handlers
V.  Scripting
    A.   System functions
    B.   System properties and parameters
    C.   Customizing handlers
VI.  Programming Structures
    A.   Loops
    B.   Databases
    C.   Lists
VII.  Shockwave for the Internet

RATIONALE

This is a first course in computer programming, or an introduction to scripting for interactive multimedia--these descriptions overlap. Using graphical, object-oriented tools, students will be able to extend on the scripting learned in MULT 109 to create simple computer games and participate on a team to produce interactive multimedia programs for educational use in coordination with the MULT 221 Project Development students. MULT 201 is a second course in the Internet & Multimedia Program. In this program you may earn one of two associates of applied science degrees, or one of five certificates.

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• Complete all work on exams without assistance.
• Follow the professor's instructions when completing all class assignments.
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• Provide proper credit when quoting or paraphrasing.
• Submit only one's own work.

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