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For Today:

 

The future of TV journalism is here! Yay!

Final for the course is 

T (Dec 8) 10:30 - 1:00 PM, in AT415. 

ALL WORK MUST BE COMPLETED BY THAT TIME! 

 

You will present your final site design, sort of walk us through it and through your essay. You don't (and shouldn't) have to READ us your essay verbatim. (word-for-word), but you should be able to summarize the key points of it, as you page through it. Your site should either be LINKED to your page in this wiki site, or burned to a disc we can read in the lab on any Mac (CD-R format or DVD-UDF).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previously -

 

 The first step in Flash is working with media you embed (and animations you tween). The next step is dynamic media (media you load as you need it), and animations done with Actionscript. Here's your first crack at loadMovie script.

 

Learning 'programming' - -  some helpful ideas here.

 

Faculty Art Show at Schmidt Gallery on Friday.

 

Prof. Shane Eason's talk Erosion and Emulsion: Processing Memory, Processing Film, Friday, Boca campus GS 210, at 1pm. 

 

Artopia artsy party on Saturday!

 

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Check your FEEDBACK - and fix what's not there:

 

Remember, I can only grade what I can see (hear)! Do you have the following?:

 

__1) Your hosted site (http://yourLoginName.nfshost.com) (FUND YOUR ACCOUNT!)

__2) Your own wiki page on this site

__3) A Link to your wiki page on the YOUR PAGES page of the wiki

 

On Your WIKI page:

 

__4) A Link to your hosted site

 

__5) Your SOUND FILES

     ___Ambient

     ___Rhythmic

     ___Sonic Essay

 

__6) NEW - - the TEXT part of your little Flash interface

 

     (6 paragraphs of an ESSAY - one paragraph per page, on DIGITAL IDENTITY)

 

Previously

 

 Actionpaintings

 

Now with extra spiffyness: Experimental Media (pdf, 2.2MB)

 

FAU Faculty Biennial Show - Schmidt  Gallery, Fri Nov 13 - 7pm (runs through January).

 

PUBLISHING IN FLASH, .fla file here.  Galaxy Graphic here, and finished, displaced background here.

 

Flash Tutorials, being re-worked. PUH-LEEZE, if you don't understand what's happening in Flash, WORK THROUGH THESE TUTORIALS! Remember, you need to PRACTICE Flash every day!

 

And also, remember that your Flash experience is CUMULATIVE - - every little bit helps further understanding, and if you miss a step somewhere along the way, try to find it! I think just about everything we've discussed in  class in the last two weeks are here in the following 6 tutorials:

 

An Introduction to Flash 

 

Getting familiar with Flash's user interface, and making your own workspace

 

Making a Graphic Symbol

 

Making a Button Symbol

 

Making an Interface in a Movie Clip, Part 1  and Part 2 .

 

Also, Image Masks

 

(also,  a Preloader scene, which is a little more advanced)

 

OK, that's about as clear and as simple as I can make it for you . . .

 

And here's an .fla file that has a preloader and an image mask, for your next challenges in Flash world (and a version with the 3D robo-balls and final html page).

 

Previously,

Make sure you have:

 

1) A wiki page (instructions here) that's

2) linked to Your Pages, and has

3) a link to your site, as well as

4) your audio files.

 

Hey, don't do it for me, do it for Chuck Norris!  

 

Check to see if the Feedback page works for you: enter your Z number (UPPER CASE Z followed by eight digits), and hit return. No feedback at the moment - - that's coming soon.

 

The Little 20-Second Sound Essay: Instructions here. 

 

• Open Source Challenge, by Oct. 27 (Flash files from feature film Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley). Here's a sample.

What we're trying to do with sound: here's previous class work, and here's another one.

 

Adventures in Audio: Watch this by next tuesday, and be ready to discuss - - may be helpful to review this neat little chart.

 

For the next couple of weeks, bring your own earphones or headphones.

 

VOICE OVERS: We can start doing our voice-over participations. Upload the text here: (word doc or online) and pick two or three you'd like to read (or sing).  (Remember, you're not required to do a voice over. You can also participate in the November performance - - dates and times to be announced soon!) 

 

 

           Some more web designs I like: a-website, and John Bleaney Portfolio

 

Don't have Photoshop? Try Aviary Phoenix - web based, and free. Doesn't do everything, but does a lot.

Here's the site root! site_root.zip

 

• Have your navigation bar and background image on your HTML page - - we'll add other images and the navbar to the other pages and link them up Thursday through image maps. Review the following tutorials: Site Root, Background images in Photoshop, Navigation Bar in Illustrator and Image Maps in HTML. Remember, it helps to PRACTICE a little every day!

 

LAB TIMES for the fall: 

 

Monday (AT 414) 2pm - 9pm

Tuesday (AT 414) 4pm - 9pm

Wednesday (AT 415) 2pm - 9pm

Friday (AT 415) 10am - 10pm

• Make sure you've created a SITE_ROOT, a folder with an HTML page (index.html) and five folders (HTML, GRAPHICS, FLASH, CSS, and Resources). And make sure you bring your Thumb Drive (2GB or so).

• Think about your BIG BUCKETS: the main navigational divisions of your site. Suggested ones: home, projects (for this class), blog, contact (email link). Maybe up to three more, but they need to be functionally distinct from the main four (like, perhaps, store, archives, and social network).
• Read the Site Root tutorial, and the HTML basic outline. 

 

 

Welcome to Interactive Multimedia!

The principle challenge in this course is to develop fluency in the vocabularies of interactive media materials: sonic, visual, and narrative/interactive. The second challenge is to develop a clear sense of craft in working in those vocabularies, and in developing strategies for combining and integrating these vocabularies through contemporary interactive media. We will construct a meaningful aesthetic, historical, and theoretical context in which to place your own interactive media work.

 

While contemporary interactive media is made with a multiplicity of technologies, we will focus on Adobe (Macromedia) Flash as a rich and deep environment for creating interactive multimedia. Like any mature media production tool, Flash can be a bit overwhelming at times, but I plan to present the technical portion of this course in a way that is organic, thoughtful, and not intimidating. I am ,most interested that you achieve a BALANCE among your design and technical abilities and your conceptual and aesthetic intentions. There are many ways to do this, but ultimately you’ve got to find your own way.

 

What exactly do we mean when we say Digital Media, Multimedia, Interactive Media?

A very preliminary overview,  an earlier way of thinking about all this, and some more speculative and personal thoughts from my forthcoming book. And here is a more august article from The Internet Encyclopedia (PDF, 3.7MB), which is perhaps showing its age, and I would have some long arguments with its author now!!

 

More links (in case the ones in the presentation don't work): 

•  Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, and Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson/Philip Glass (musical excerpt).

•  And instead of Music Balls, go with Web Symphony.

•  Plus, the best article on Value vs. Meaning , and a great article on Dada Photomontage and Sitemaps

 

 

 

Big Ideas In This Course:

 

Vocabularies:

 

Image – still (web layout), motion

Sound – Digital sound and music software

Text — linear/non-linear

 

 

Histories:

 

Digital media/Web.

Check out my timeline, as well as this site.

And a great book for this, although published in the last century.

 

 

Orientations:

 

Form:  Structure v. Spontaneity  (control v. madness)

Intention: Value v. Meaning

 

 

 

AND WELCOME TO THE MMC 3711 WIKI

This is a WIKI, part of the world of Web 2.0 (see image below) and you can add to and edit anything here. But, look at the videos below to see some very sane-looking people using wiki, and start thinking about how you want to use this site as a resource and as a jumping-off point for your investigation of interactive multimedia. 

 

 

 

 

Learn to Make Edits in this Wiki by going through this tutorial.

 

 

 

A B O U T   Y O U R   P R O F -

 

I've been working in digital multimedia for about a dozen years,  from both the expressive, artistic side and the client-driven, commercial side. Most of my work as digital media artist is gathered under the storm-damaged umbrella of meaning I call BAD MIND TIME(tm). My DVDs are available on Amazon. Here's some other commercial work: a CARE presentation on girls' education, a travel site for one of their major donors, and a site for my sister-in-law's independent film.