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COMM 300 Introduction to Multimedia (Section 03)

Schedule

Class meets Room 119, 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Week	Day	Topics
Week 1	Mon, Jan 9	Introduction to the class. Final Cut X basics The interface Importing footage Organizing footage files Making a rough cut In and Out points Favorites
Week 2	Mon, Jan 16	No class (MLK Day)
Week 3	Mon, Jan 23	Final Cut (continues) Replacing clips Keywords Markers Trimming Precision Editor Attaching clips Splitting tracks Storylines Compound clips
Week 4	Mon, Jan 30	Final Cut (continues) Transitions Titles Retiming and Transforming clips Effects Corrections Sharing Begin exercise: Edit to Audio
Week 5	Mon, Feb 6	Camera use Class time to finish exercise
Week 6	Mon, Feb 13	Edit to Audio exercise due Shooting video footage Camera shots Begin video project
Week 7	Mon, Feb 20	After Effects—an introduction
Week 8	Mon, Feb 27	Lab day
Spring Break
Week 9	Mon, Mar 12	An intro to the World Wide Web HTML, XHTML and HTML 5 Creating a Web page Tags and attributes. Skeletal tags Headings & paragraphs Useful text tags
Week 10	Mon, Mar 19	* Video project (Portrait using 9 shots) due Lists Links Directory structure Exercsie: HTML translate
Week 11	Mon, Mar 26	Using Photoshop to create Web images Image formats Saving images for the Web Adding images to Web pages Exercise: Web images
Week 12	Mon, Apr 2	Page structure Conventions Headers, footers, sections and other containers ID's and classes Using Dreamweaver Begin Web project: Diversity group
Week 13	Mon, Apr 9	Adding design to Web pages with CSS Tag selectors Class styles ID styles
Week 14	Mon, Apr 16	CSS (continues) Floats and positioning Media on the Web Embedding video and other media
Week 15	Mon, Apr 23	Review Web project due by week's end
Week 16	Mon, Apr 30 *6:30pm	Final exam