Course Content and Details

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Course Content and Details

• Induction 2007

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Overview

• Timetable info
• Personal Issues
• Plagiarism
• Programme Leader info
• Course details
• Exercise
• Q and A

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Timetable

• You will all get a hard copy of your TT
• Please make sure you have the correct one!
• If you have a job, let them know, to make sure
  you can attend all your lectures
• Questions?

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Personal Issues

• If you have any problems
• Consider who you should speak to
• Personal tutor,
• Student support,
• are your first ports of call

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Plagiarism

• You will get a lecture that covers this in due
  course,
• but for now
• You must never pass someone elses work off as
  your own
• NEVER copy work (internet, books, friends etc)
  without REFERENCE
• This means PICTURES and TEXT
• If you are unsure please ask
• Will incur sever penalties
• BAD for references, when we have to write one!

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Course Specific Info

• Ryan Flynn - Games specific
• Nigel Newbutt / Alison Cross - Animation specific
• Julie Watkins - Film specific
• Tony Ackroyd - Multimedia specific
• Richard Jones - Entertainment specific

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Games

• Multimedia Games Design and Development 1
• Games design
• Develop games in Flash (actionscript)
• Computing Programming 1
• Program using Java
• Theory and practical issues

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Animation, Film and Games

• Concepts of Animation
• Drawing
• Stop-motion animation
• Flash animation
• Explore some history related to animation
• Assessed through 100 coursework / portfolio

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Film and TV

• Television Production
• Language of framing and editing
• Video editing
• Production roles
• Screen narrative
• Assessment 100 coursework

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Multimedia Tech Internet Tech Web Tech

• System Analysis at Work
• Information gathering skills
• Data modeling
• Design and specification concepts
• Data processing
• 50 exam and 50 coursework

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Entertainment Technologies and Music Production

• Music Production 1
• Hard disk recording and sequencing
• Virtual instruments
• Combining samples, midi and audio recording
• 40 exam and 60 coursework

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Core Courses

• You will all study the following
• Visual Studies and Web Media (not games)
• Multimedia Computing and Programming (not games,
  not film)
• Multimedia Production 1
• PDP

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Core Courses

• Visual Studies and Web Media
• Graphic design work
• Creating mixed media work
• HTML and CSS
• Production of web graphics
• Web accessibility tools
• 100 coursework

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Core Courses

• Multimedia Computing and Programming
• Computer software and hardware
• Operating systems
• Internet development
• Computers and the law
• OOP
• Java
• 50 exam, 50 coursework

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Core Courses

• Multimedia Production 1
• DTP work
• Flash portfolio
• Basic video work
• Basic editing work
• Sound recording
• Image manipulation
• 100 coursework

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Core Courses

• PDP 1
• Personal Development Portfolio
• Working in teams
• Company Survival Game
• Make money (not real of course!)
• Develop presenting skills, team working,
  decision making skills, communication skills.

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Dont forget!

• 14.00 -15.30 Registration go to School Office
  QM345
• Make sure you have relevant documents (ID,
  payment, qualifications, etc.)
• Phoned bank if paying by card

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DVLA Task

• As a quick exercise we want you to form into your
  programme groups and tackle an exercise
• The DVLA require an interactive training product
  that will teach new drivers how to drive on the
  road
• They want you to come up with ideas of what could
  be done
• You need to propose what you would do, based on
  you programme (film people might make some sort
  of training film, web people might produce a web
  site, or example)
• How will you make it interactive?
• You will need to propose more than just one idea!
• Work in groups of 5-10 and discuss how you might
  go about advising on this product
• Take 20 mins to discuss and then report back to
  the group
• http//www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/index.
  cfm?featureID1505

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Team exercise

• Get into programme groups
• You are new graduate consultants
• Read handout and discuss
• What would you recommend?

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Questions

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