Equipment
Readings
Links by Course Topics
- Typefaces and Graphics
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/type.html - Preproduction and Presentations Graphics
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/preproduction.html - Desktop Publishing
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/dtp.html - Production Planning and Design
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/prodplanning.html - User Interface Design & Graphics II
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/userinterface.html- Color Theory
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/colortheory.html
- Color Theory
- WYSIWYG Web Page Editors
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/webeditors.html- Dreamweaver Resources
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/dreamweaver.html
- Dreamweaver Resources
- Web Page Authoring and HTML
http://itwebmaster.iit.edu/resources/ - Multimedia Sound
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/audio.html - Television Production and Technology
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/tvproduction.html - Digital Video
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/digitalvideo.html - Computer Animation
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/companimation.html - HTML
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/html.html - More resources will be added on a lesson-by-lesson basis; they should be online a week before the lesson.
Software We will demonstrate a variety of applications common to today's multimedia producer. Some packages are shareware; others will be the same packages found in a successful multimedia studio. A multimedia authoring package, Multimedia Fusion from Clickteam, is included in the textbook but if you do not desire to use this one, I strongly suggest you obtain an authoring package in the first few weeks, especially if you have access to a computer off-campus. I'll give you list of titles and prices on Week 2. THIS IS NOT REQUIRED, but you'll get more out of the course if you do...
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Multimedia Authoring
Software
http://multimedia.rice.iit.edu/software.html
Links
- The
Multimedia Authoring Web (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/index.html)
from the Maricopa Center
for Learning and Instruction at Maricopa Community College in California
is a very complete resource for online multimedia information; they also
have produced the Studio
1151 Guidebook at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu
/authoring/studio/guidebook/index.html, detailed guidelines for preparing a Multimedia production from start to finish. - The Institute for Interactive Multimedia at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) at http://www.iim.uts.edu.au/ has a very nice section on Greating Interactive Multimedia at http://www.iim.uts.edu.au/creating/creating.shtml; the University of Queensland has a good set of Multimedia Authoring Guidelines at http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/mas/. (They seem to take multimedia pretty seriously down under!)
- The Multimedia Authoring Systems FAQ, a comprehensive examination of multimedia authoring tools, is at http://www.tiac.net/users/jasiglar/MMASFAQ.HTML.
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Index to Multimedia Information Sources at http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo/ is an old but good source of multimedia information on the Web.
- Cisco Systems' Designing Internetworks
for Multimedia: Multimedia Basics at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/idg4/
nd2013.htm#xtocid129351 is a very solid introduction to computer-based audio and video. - The PCWebopaedia at http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/m/multimedia.html a really useful multimedia page including a good definition of multimedia.
- New Frontiers of Learning is aimed specifically at educational multimedia production but the lessons, at http://ibis.nott.ac.uk/guidelines/index.html, are universal for most cases, especially the project management sections.
- Of course there's always plenty of stuff at Yahoo: http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/;
authoring tools are at http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business
/Computers/Multimedia/Software/Authoring_Tools/ and from the Open Directory Project at http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Multimedia/ - Clip Art can be found in abundance from The Clip Art Connection at http://www.clipartconnection.com/.
- Aiden O'Rourke's Infopages on Digital Photography are the best reference I've found on digital photography, at http://www.anamaria.u-net.com/DPM/DPM.html
- For information on MP3 audio (the best!) see http://www.mp3.com/.
- Digital Video Magazine at http://www.liveDV.com/ is a good source of info on digital video. And of course there's the Apple Quicktime site at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/, Microsoft's Interactive Media site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/default.asp, and the Intel Indeo site at http://developer.intel.com/ial/indeo/index.htm.
