CTV4033

Course Descriptions

The internet provides wonderful access to film/video makers of all kinds, enabling them to reach a vast potential audience cheaply and easily. This course explores concepts and structures of online communication, employing interactive digital media. A variety of tools and procedures will be employed. Students will learn the history and aesthetics of online media and use tools and techniques learned in class to create a well-designed, interactive web page to convey their idea and concept as well as produce a high-quality video to be distributed across the internet. Topics like HTML, user interface, design, internet history, users’ navigation habits, graphic processing, file transfers, internet access, and movie streaming will be covered. Emphases will be put on how to compress the movie without sacrificing playback speed and sharp, crisp detail, as well as incorporate interactive scripts to set up an interface that controls the movie clips through behaviour and action.

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