Web Design Course - Resources for web page design, Erdington

Resources and links for Erdington Multimedia Design classes

Term 3: Thursdays - April to July 2004

Week / date	Subjects covered	Relevant resources
Wk1 22/04/04	Completion of Web Design assignment and module	(prep - fill in web design log books)	www.city-and-guilds.co.uk/e-quals
Wk2 29/04/04	Multimedia - Introduction to Flash MX Modifying the main movie, drawing, illustrating, changing the colours, how the tools and objects behave	Introduction to interface, lessons, tutorials and on/offline resources, Simple animation exercise	see: help > lessons in Flash MX work as quickly as you can through these - a quick scan through at first. Complete the 'Getting started with Flash MX' then move on.
Wk2 29/04/04		Loads and loads and loads... of developer resources and tutorials	www.flashkit.com
Wk3 06/05/04	What is multimedia? 1) Complete tweening exercise 2) Import / trigger audio from Tue 3) Analyse television adverts 4) Analyse media content of example multimedia web sites and CDROMs.	Source of UK tv adverts	www.uktvadverts.com - click on the "Multimedia" link.
		Source of UK tv adverts	www.visit4info.com
		Real Alternative - alternative to Real Player (tm)	Use Google - FileForum seems to be safe. Be careful with the download sites, say NO to pop-ups that you do not trust.
		QuickTime Alternative	Use Google. FileForum seems to be safe. Be careful with the download sites, say NO to pop-ups that you do not trust.
		Flash lessons:	help > lessons Should have finished as far as: 'Adding and editing text'
Wk4 13/05/04	Techniques: 1) Copyright, Designs and Patents 2) What knowledge or skills do we need - what do we need to know? 3 ) What features does Flash MX have that will enable us to do this? - An overview of what is needed	Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988	www.hmso.gov.uk
		B'ham City Council summary	www.birmingham.gov.uk
		Read through assignment & establish techniques required	www.city-and-guilds.co.uk/e-quals
		Loads and loads and loads... of developer resources and tutorials	www.flashkit.com
		Flash lessons:	help > lessons Should have finished as far as: 'Understanding layers'
Wk5 20/05/04	Moving pictures – an introduction to the timeline 1) scenes and frames. 2) Layers – what’s in front of what, grouping objects. 3) Tweening– what you can and what you can’t. 4) Buttons	Flash lessons:	help > lessons Should have finished as far as: 'Buttons'
Wk6 27/05/04	Storyboarding Multimedia: 1) making a simple presentation storyboard 2) jumping to frames and scenes	Movie template	multimedia/storyboard.pdf
		Flash lessons:	help > lessons Skip the next two and go straight on to: 'For Fireworks and Photoshop users'
		Tutorials:	help > Tutorials: Introduction to Flash MX - start the exercise
Whitsun 03/06/04	Video camera workshop: shooting to a storyboard transfering video - Video camera acquired
Wk7 10/06/04	Adding a movie and controls - to a Flash MX presentation: Symbols and the Library: graphics, buttons, movies, images, movies and sounds	Loads and loads and loads... of developer resources and tutorials	www.flashkit.com
Wk8 17/06/04	Multiple timelines! Some neat tricks to make things easier – controlling the flow (buttons)ActionScript – making a little bit of programming, attaching sounds	Tutorials:	help > Tutorials: should have pretty much finished the exercise and be on with the ActionScript tutorial
Wk8 17/06/04
Wk9 24/06/04	Plan project: Storyboards and implementation in Flash MX. Production machine spec, & peripherals needed.	Tutorials:	help > Tutorials: Try to have finished off as far as Components
Wk9 24/06/04		Terms of Reference (example)	multimedia/Terms of Reference.doc
Wk10 01/07/04	Projects, with individual and class-wide tutorials
Wk11 08/07/04	Projects, with individual and class-wide tutorials
Wk12 15/07/04	Finish projects, deploy and create documentation / tidy presentation, final assessment. Students will be marked on planning, implementation – technical and style, functionality & testing, presentation.
Wk13 22/07/04	Other finishing off
Wk14 29/07/04

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