Course discusses the emerging aesthetic of computer-based interactive multimedia. It seeks to identify the aural, visual, rhetorical, and dramatic aesthetic traditions that preceded and pervade multimedia. Through demonstration and discussion, traditions are analyzed in relation to this new mediums unique organizing featurethe user interface. This includes exploration of the elements of line, shape, tone, texture, volume-filling systems, as well as the use of color in design.
Students acquire fundamental photography skills including optics, chemistry, and aesthetics.
Special emphasis given to the connection between film and digital formats. The production of visually effective images and the creative use of photographs within the electronic multimedia environment is the main objective of the course. Course concentrates on creative application of sound and music for implementation in computer-based multimedia presentations. Students learn basic principles of digitized sound and Macintosh architecture. Students acquire skills necessary to create compelling and technically proficient sound tracks for computer presentations.