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New - 06/06 - Ian's lecture notes are now available from the relevant lecture page.

Week Lect Date Who Lecture Topic Reading Practical
Graham Hillman
1 1 27-Feb * Introduction - How to do well in CP2010     none, but you can do the Director Curriculum
2 1-Mar   Authoring tools (Director& drawing), general MM    
2 3 6-Mar Ian Overview/Multimedia Design 1   Remember Director? Drawing Tools (All)
4 8-Mar Ian Information Design & Authoring Tools    
3 5 13-Mar Marilyn
Harris 		Multimedia Development Process 2, 7, 8 8, 12 VA - Freehand, making storyboards & flowcharts
6 15-Mar   Flash    
4 7 20-Mar Ian Design for Interaction 3   Flash & ACID - making a rocking website intro
8 22-Mar   Dreamweaver & Fireworks    
5 9 27-Mar Ian Architecture of Multimedia 4   DreamWeaver & Fireworks - Interactive site design
10 29-Mar Ian Graphic Production Strategies (& Freehand)    
6 11 3-Apr Ashton
Ward 		ACID & Audio 6 6 VA -Freehand Illustration
12 5-Apr Ian Colour and Colour Palettes (& Photoshop) 4  
7 13 10-Apr   Flash - navigation, audio, movie clips     VA - Freehand & Photoshop
14 12-Apr Karen Interface and Navigation Design    
8 15 17-Apr   HTML, JavaScript & Web Programming     VA - Interface and Navigation Design - Photoshop
16 19-Apr   Lingo - games programming 1    
Lecture Recess
9 17 1-May   Flash Preloaders & Navigation (in Dreamweaver)     Flash pre-loaders & web navigation
18 3-May   Lingo - games programming    
10 19 8-May   Shockwave     Director - Games (Lingo)
20 10-May   Bitmap graphics (JPG vs GIF)    5
11 21 15-May
 
Remedial Director     Director - Games (Lingo)
22 17-May   Vector graphics (understanding SWF)   5
12 23 22-May   Digital Video -encoding/compression 6 7 Putting it all together (Project Work)
24 24-May  Karen Photoshop & Good Design    
13 25 29-May   Network/Bandwidth issues for multimedia   10  More Photoshop, Flash
26 31-May   Exam Review / New Technologies    

*Unless otherwise specified, Lindsay will be giving the lecture.
Lectures (or lecturers) and pracs in yellow will be coordinated by Visual Arts (Ian White)
Lectures in bold are on applications (software)

  
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You should not rely on these notes only!
If you miss a lecture and you do not understand something in the notes, you should consult (in this order) other students, the tutors, or the lecturer to try to work it out.

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