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Finals Week - April 28
Final Exam (a presentation of your site & projects) for this course, today : Thursday, April 28, 10:30am - 1pm. All work must be turned in by that time (I don't give in completes).
Week 15 - April 21
Did you get your responsive portfolio to work? Here's my page so far. (P.S. it's pretty straightforward, so I'm taking down the link to the HTML4 non-responsive slideshow - that's so 2010! Here's the slideshow, also a node_modules folder (not critical). My Portfolio page.
Week 14 - April 14
Events of interest in Boca over the next few days:
Housekeeping:
- Final Exam (a presentation of your site & projects) for this course : Thursday, April 28, 10:30am - 1pm. If you can't make it, you need to see me about presenting next week.
Today:
- Bringing Processing, PureData, and your smart phone all together in one tutorial.
Sidebar:
Week 13 - April 7
Processing Plus - Extending Processing through Libraries . We installed Video, Minim, OscP5, and NetP5.
Week 12 - March 31
The Real HipHop - lecture at U Miami.
Today, classes in Processing.
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So, here's what I want in terms of your Processing:
1) Static Sketch: variations on MonkeyBear, or an original visual design. Screenshot and .zip of .pde file on your site.
2) Mouse Interaction: variation on the centipede sketch. Screenshot and .zip of .pde file on your site.
3) Mouse Interaction Plus Primitives: variation on the random primitive sketch. Screenshot and .zip of .pde file on your site.
4) KeyPress: variation on keypress sketch - your own 9 sketches, key press interaction, plus stop, clear.Screenshot and .zip of .pde file on your site.
5) Classes: variation on VideoJam Lite — your own animated .gif (.png actually), plus a random image hose. Screenshot and .zip of sketch folder on your site.
6) Sketch using sound or video or OSC, and/or tweaking a sketch from Generative Design. Screenshot and .zip of sketch folder on your site.
7) ANNOTATION: discuss your work with Processing - what you enjoyed about it, what gave you headaches, etc.
Week 11 - March 24
Thursday, March 24 - Nayland Blake Artist Talk GS-119, Boca Campus, 6pm - 7pm, followed by Annual Juried Student Exhibition Opening Reception, 7pm - 9pm Ritter Art Gallery.
Friday, March 23 - Lecture: Documentary Filmmaking and the (Re)production of Meaning. 2pm, Culture and Society Building, Room 222. 1% EXTRA CREDIT (added to your attendance grade) if you attend!
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Your Feedback is current.
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Today, putting your Processing sketches on your site.
1) Required - Screenshot, annotation, zip file of sketch.
2) Optional - copy code to Processing 2.X, export as Javascript, embed in page
Building a Keypress environment for playing random visuals.
Week 10 - March 16
P.S. Trying to find our way back into Javascript mode in processing. Go here, and try this. How to add modes to the contributed libraries here.
Welcome back from Spring Break. Broward Career Fair next Tuesday (Mar. 22, 3pm-7pm)
And welcome to the world of Processing. Here's what we need to do to begin:
- Download and install Processing 3.02 , latest version, on your home computer and on your workstation in the lab.
- Introduction to the basics of Processing: setup, filenames, folder conventions, interface.
- Introduction to visual coding. Creating the MonkeyBear, and then creating your own version (or some other static sketch).
- This term, I want us to be able to post our Processing sketches right away. So, we need to discuss how to convert our Processing sketches to Javascript and embed them in our website (remember that?).
Next part of the Processing process is creating interaction, with a centipede (bottom of page), and if time permits, drawing Random Primitives (we'll see how far we get).
Week 8 - March 3
Mostly Studio Time today, finishing your sound salads and ambient tracks.
More work with SoundHack. Today, working with VST plugins. Some vocal source files to work with.
Preview of Creative Coding and Processing.
Week 7 - Feb 25
Wrapping up PureData, because we may need a little more time for making all our patches work! Plus, a demo on using Kinect with PureData.
Remainder of the class, working with your sample library, and working with SoundHack.
DUE NEXT TIME:
• Two sound salads and two ambient tracks. Here's the details on that.
• Your Second Post/Review
Week 6 - Feb 18
DIRT Gallery Talk, Thursday, Feb. 18 @ 6:30pm. Ritter Art Gallery, FAU Boca Campus. Also, continuing, the Jay Critchley exhibition and related events tomorrow night.
Suncoast Student TV Awards of Excellence, Call for Entries (Deadline, March 4)
BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica (Student) Short Film Festival - Call for Entries (Deadline May 31)
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Today, we wrap up with PureData (creating an interface with sub-patches), although we will still be using the projects we created as electronic sound sources.
So, ultimately, you need these to complete your PureData assignments:
- 09 - AM Synth Patch
- 12 - FM Synth Patch
- 11b - Ring Modulator Patch
- 14 - Sequencer Patch
- Basic Sampler Patch (17_3-4-2-3-sampler3)
- Sampler Patch with Sub-Patch Interface and Recording Capability (duplicate previous patch, add interface). And here's that:
You'll need to NAME all these files correctly, with your initials (09_AM_synth_JB.pde, etc.). Next, you'll need to ZIP all these files together, and UPLOAD (Put) the zip archive onto your website, and link to it on you Sound Projects page (or your PureData page, if you've broken your site down to these).
We move on to more traditional audio editing, but as always, with a twist. We'll be using Audacity and Soundhack to manipulate sound files, and we will be creating mixable media for out class project.
Here's the guidelines for building your sample library.
Week 5 - Feb. 11
We continue exploring PureData through recreating simple projects. You should have completed at least an AM synth, an FM synth, and a Ring Modulator, and we will work on the sequencer in class, if you need an assist with that.
We'll also start working on the sound file reading and writing process, and start creating the sampler. We should be able to finish one today, and also work with multiple windows to build an interface.
Week 4 - Feb. 4
This week, we start moving the course toward the exploration of sound from an acoustic point of view (here's how I organize sound-- this is created in Flash, so it won't work on tablets or mobile phones), and we begin working in procedural audio with PureData. We will build a few synthesizers and a sequencer the first day!
Floss Manual: intro, graphical programming, digital audio
And here's a PureData sketch that illustrates changes in sound parameters (first draft)
Week 3 - Jan. 28
ANNOUNCEMENTS/HOUSE KEEPING: Office Hours Change: My office hours are now 10am - 1pm, Tuesday and Thursday
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Next week, check out the Jay Critchley Events and Earth Ethics lecture by Dr. Kelly Oliver
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The College of Engineering and Computer Science is looking for a student that would be interested in working ~20 hours per week in the Dean's ofc. on the Boca Raton campus doing graphic design work and possibly some video. The hours are flexible around the student's schedule.
They would like candidates to have a knowledge of
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
If interested please send Cheryl Halle (Director, Communications and Web Design) your resume at challe@fau.edu.
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Interested in doing undergraduate research? Apply for an undergraduate research grant ($2000 tuition waiver). Deadline Feb.19; Details.
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Planning to study abroad? Scholarships available. Deadline Mar. 14. Details
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Some videos for adapting from PC to Mac:
Really basic and short, 15-minute good overview, 1-hour really comprehensive
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IN CLASS TODAY:
• Make multiple pages based on templates
• Make a consistent navigation to those pages
• Understand paths, jumping into and out of folders
• Updating/Editing your Local Site and Syncing to your Remote site
• Image Optimization for the Web
My Site Root Structure:
my navigation:
Week 2
More info on the Dirt exhibition here.
Position available for Student Owl TV Production Co-ordinator. Details here.
Summer Study Abroad Informative Session here.
Two upcoming music events: Student Composition Concert (FAU), and New Music Concert (FIU)
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Today, review of tags, attributes, etc. Review of Photoshop and optimizing visuals for the web. Hosting your site with an ISP, and starting to understand the differences between local and remote sites.
We'll also talk a little about your web posts/reviews (3 over the course of the semester).
Week 1
Basics of HTML Review the basics at W3Schools--a really good course, goes into a lot more detail than we got through today.
For next time, swap out the banner image on your template site, get familiar with the different sections in the HTML code of the index.html page. We will work on the Navigation next time, and also spend more time working with images and optimizing them for the web,
But, the big thing will be hosting your site remotely, so have a PayPal account with $2-$5 on it (or a credit card) so we can set up your account. Tutorial on hosting is forthcoming.
Welcome to Interactive Multimedia!
MMC 3711: INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA (4 Cr. Hrs.): An introduction to the basics of interactive multimedia production. Class projects explore the potential of interactive media to communicate, express and challenge cultural ideas. The course seeks to develop a combination of critical, technical and design skills.
In the course of this class you will:
- expand and consolidate your visual design skills as applied to interactive multimedia,
- become proficient in coding and programming of interactive multimedia, especially HTML5/CSS3, Processing, and PureData,
- become proficient in sound editing and manipulation, using Audacity, SoundHack, and PureData.
- become more familiar with new and emerging developments in areas of interest to you in multimedia and digital culture, and discuss these developments in a series of web posts/reviews
- document your work as an online HTML5-based website that showcases all you’ve accomplished for this course.
While contemporary interactive media is made with a multiplicity of technologies, we will introduce sound software and production to help integrate all aspects of media into our work. Like any mature media production environment, the software we’ll be using (Dreamweaver, Processing, Audacity, SoundHack, and PureData) 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 too intimidating. I am most interested that you achieve a BALANCE among your visual/sonic design skills, your technical/coding abilities and your conceptual / aesthetic intentions.
What exactly do we mean when we say Digital Media, Multimedia, Interactive Media?
My little overview of interactive multimedia. If you want everything in one larger screen, check out this version.
Operating System (OS) Issues
For those of you adapting to working in a Mac lab, a couple of short videos: PC to Mac Basics, Finder Basics, Exposé Basics. Also, if you just bought a Mac and want to RUN ALL YOUR WINDOWS PROGRAMS on it, check out this tutorial (No, you can't run Mac programs on a PC, although many applications like the Adobe Suites—Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Flash—are cross-platform)
SUCCESS IN THIS CLASS. . .
. . . seems to be directly proportional to how comfortable you are with Dreamweaver, Processing, Audacity, Soundhack, and to a lesser extent, Photoshop and Illustrator. So, USE THE LABS! Work with each program we're studying EVERY DAY! PRACTICE!!
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