Module Descriptors
WEB MULTIMEDIA
COWB50189
Key Facts
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Sciences
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Fiona Knight
Email: F.L.Knight@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • ASSIGNMENT weighted at 60%
  • EXAMINATION - UNSEEN IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS weighted at 40%
Module Details
Module Indicative Content
Design of multimedia projects for the web by including
- Creating animation
- Streaming Media
- Introduction to mobile multimedia
- Interactivity
- Introduction to a web multimedia scripting language such as action script
- Panoramas
- Multimedia Evaluation
- Managing media files for delivery to the web.
- Compression and optimisation
Module Additional Assessment Details
Assignment (70%) - Learning Outcome 1, 2, 4
Test in exam period, 45 minutes (30%) - Learning outdomes 1 and 3.
Module Learning Strategies
The lecture will support the two lab sessions. The lab seessions will run in groups of 70 with 2 members of staff in attendance. The lab sessions will support the underlying knowledge and skills required to complete the module, and will be facilitated with booklets, course texts (if any) and the internet. Group discussions will also take place in these sessions.
(1:n) (2:70)2
Module Texts
Directed reading will be given in lectures.

Background Reading

Foundation Macromedia Flash MX 2004
by Kristian Besley, Sham Bhangal, Sham Bhangal
Publisher: Apress ; (2003)
ISBN: 1590593030
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None.
Module Resources
Web server
Streaming server
Streaming encoders
Digital cameras / camcorders
Editors such as Macromedia Studio MX
The Internet
Software for web multimedia