Laboratory Instruction in multimedia development employs an icon-based development tool. Laboratory Students develop skills in the interface design process including selecting interfaces that are meaningful to users and relative to a project's content and delivery system. The emphasis is on aesthetic issues such as iconography, screen composition, colors, and typography. Laboratory Students learn to digitize sound and incorporate it into multimedia titles for various delivery systems.
Emphasis is on compression issues, sampling, synchronizing, and resource management.
Laboratory Students develop skills in producing and editing video and sound for multimedia productions. Emphasis is on the capture, editing, and outputting of video using a desktop digital video workstation. Topics include digital image editing, digital sound and video editing, animation, web page development, and interactive presentations. Emphasis is on conceptualizing and producing effective multimedia presentations. This introduction to the multimedia planning process includes costing, preparation, production legal issues, and guidelines for pre-production preparation and creation of a comprehensive design document including target audience analysis, purpose and goals, objectives, content outline, flow chart, and storyboard.