NM3401 - Interactive Media Design

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

In this subject students will work in a collaborative environment with students from information technology to create an interactive multimedia application with advanced new media functionalities. This project will use a media rich approach, a variety of software applications encompassing 2D computer graphics, computer animation techniques, and digital audio. Advanced navigation concepts and original interactive new media applications will be studied as exemplars of good practice. Creative-strategic design concepts will be examined in context of contemporary issues of web culture and technologies.

Learning Outcomes

• ability to construct advanced multimedia products that effectively communicate visual, aural and textual aesthetics in an interactive context;
• ability to conduct collaborative projects using web based technologies;
• ability to integrate efficiently and effectively a range of media- image, text, graphic into new media projects;
• ability to engage in collaborative and team-based projects demonstrated high levels of professional autonomy and inter personal skill sets and understanding of contemporary issues related to interactive project development and commercial settings.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Prerequisites:	NM2301 OR NM3901
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CP3003

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coordinator:	Ms Katja Fleischmann
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (30%); collaborative workshop project (70%).

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