INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL MEDIA
What is Digital Media?
Digital Media in Multimedia Production
Audio Recording Industry
Multimedia & Web Design
Video Casting, Animation & Gaming
Communication - Handphone

INTRODUCTION TO MULTIMEDIA
What is multimedia?
Functions of multimedia.
Multimedia as an interactive medium.
MSC (Multimedia Super Corridor) & our local contents

STORY BOARD
What is a multimedia / interactive storyboard?
Interactive navigation flow
Visuals and texts (content story)
Audio/video

INTERACTIVE DESIGN & PRODUCTION PROCESS
Idea
Target consumer, time and budget
Authoring structure (flowchart) and story board
Preparation of design, concept and art work
Media Interactions and authoring
Product tested
Other consideration
Differentiate between interface (Website, Interactive Kiosk, Application, Game Design & Courseware)

WRITING AND EDITING OF CONTENT STORY
Sources of the contents
Writing and editing the content story
Content flows; intro, main and ending
Contents structure and sub contents

THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF WEBSITE / INTERACTIVE DESIGN
Interface design elements:
Top Panel
Navigation Pane l
Background
Buttons / arrow
Pictures & Graphics
Typhography & texts
Colour scheme
Hypertext
Logo
Title
Animated gif
Audio
Video

INTERFACE DESIGN AND PAGE SETUP
Preparing files using design software eg: Photoshop, Illustrators, or others (as an interface design tool).
Artwork and size
File format
Colours selection

PREPARING INTEGRATION MEDIA, EDITING & FILES FORMAT
Audio files (music/voice over/sound effect)
Video files
Animation files

AUTHORING STRUCTURE
Montage
Homepage / main page
Story pages
Navigation structure/links
Levels
Sub-story

Q1 : What will this course teach?
A1 : Interactive design, user interface and user experiences