Web Macromedia Design/Multimedia :: Business and Information Technology

Web Macromedia Design/Multimedia

This course will cover basic multimedia designs including text, graphics, animation, audio, video as it relates to publishing in both web and print development. Yearly project includes a video presentation of THS in digital format, personal webpage and expansion/maintenance of the THS Website. Utilizes: Flash, Dreamweaver, Movie Maker, Premiere, and Photoshop*.

Presentation in design is everything. It's the tool that you have that communicates what it is that you're thinking.

Week 1	Introduction – PowerPoint on Multimedia/ Web Design Understanding web Design Webby Awards Webby Assignment
Week 2	Webby Choices Favorite Websites Understanding theme, design and mission Saving on the jump drives
Week 3	Begin Photoshop – what it is Photoshop workspace Saving and editing photos Tools
Week 4	Borders/Printing Selection tools/Marquee tool/move tool/transform commands Guides Color Theory
Week 5	Magic Wand tool File format Understanding Layers Assignment – Their Design
Week 6	Layer masks Eraser tools Clone stamp Flattening an image – image size
Week 7	Color – RGB/CMYK Drawing with color Gradients Selecting color/swatches The color palette
Week 8	Text Painting - Pumpkins
Week 9	Brush tool Eyedropper tool Brushes Palette
Week 10	Shapes – Mapping in Photoshop
Week 11	Paint bucket Ellipse too Pens and paths and lines
Week 12	Project - 10 Things that Make me Happy collage
Week 13	Project - 10 Things that Make me Happy collage
Week 14	Working for a client – Wedding Invite
Week 15	Intro to Dreamweaver Workspace Design and define Home page Create and view a site map
Week 16	Develop a webpage Create head content and set page properties Create /import and format text Navigation Links
Week 17	History Panel Modify and test web pages Working with text and images Lists Graphics
Week 18	CSS
Week 19	Layout with Layers and CSS

Spring Semester 2009-10

Week 1 1/4-1/8	Layout with Layers, Working with Links Create external and internal page links Named anchors, Insert Rollovers with Flash Create and modify a navigation bar, Create an image map
Week 2 1/11-1/15	Manage web site links, Begin Blooms and Bulbs Skills Review -Working with Links Continue - Working with Links Work on personal site Personal site work Personal site work
Week 3 1/19-1/22	Show Personal page work/ HTML Tables Create a table Resize, split and merge cells Align images/Text/Skill Review -Blooms and Bulbs Skill Review continued
Week 4 1/25-1/29	Work on personal site
Week 5 2/1-2/5	Using styles and style sheets embedded and external styles Skill review Personal site Personal site - Print
Week 6 2/8-2/12	Personal site Personal site Personal site Dreamweaver Final -test Personal site
President's Week
Week 7 2/22-2/26	Personal Site - Finish
Week 8 3/1-3/5	personal Site -Due Introduce Flash – workspace Timelines and planning Timeline
Week 9 3/8-3/12	Flash animation Drawing tools/Objects and colors/Text and text objects
Week 10 3/15 -3/19	Symbols/Instances/Action Libraries/Frames Motion tweens/Motion Guides Effects/ Break apart Text
Week 11 3/22-3/26	Web Site Discussion Shape tweens/Masks/Sound/Scenes Navigation bar Action Script
Week 12 3/29 -4/2	Frame by frame animation Detail animation Motion tweens/guides Onion skins Fun Friday
Spring Break
Week 13 4/12-4/16	Timeline effects Animated text Skill review -Animations 4 Website fixes Website fixes
Week 14 4/19-4/23	STAR Testing Website fixes
Week 15 4/26-4/30	Drop down buttons Actions Rollovers, mask Skills review - Creating Special Effects 5
Week 16 5/3-5/7	Using Action script Actions panel Frame labels Script assist Movie clip symbols
Week 17 5/10-5/14	Variables -containers Stings and math variables Copying action script Skills Review - Action Script 9 Skills Review Action Scriopt 9
Week 18 5/17-5/21	Flash Final Video production Intro to Movie Maker
Week 19 5/24-5/28	Working with Movie Maker Final Project - Simple Video
Week 20 6/1-6/4	Final Project - Simple Video
Week 21 - Final6/9	Final Project due - Screening
* Subject to change based on class considerations and just-in-time evaluations