Background Reading:

Writing for Multimedia and the Web, Third Edition : A Practical Guide to Content Development for Interactive Media, Garrand, T, (2006), Publisher: Focal Press, ISBN: 0240808223
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Bible, Reinhardt, R et al (2007), John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Pap/Cdr edition, ISBN-10: 0470119373
WWW.W3.org - for web standards
WWW.Adobe.com

Adobe Flash Professional CS3
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe Flex builder 2
Web Server
Media Server
Web Cameras
Various Multimedia editing tools
Various encoder tools

Prior study of CE00354-2 Web Multimedia or equivalent

The lecture will support the two lab sessions. The lab sessions will support the underlying knowledge and skills required to complete the module, and will be facilitated with booklets, course texts, and the internet. Within the lab sessions the students will learn new and emerging technologies, focus on media resource creation, learn advanced scripting, and the process of design and evaluation. Group discussions will also take place in these sessions. (1:n) (1:20)2

Students will look at advanced areas of web multimedia including the following:
- Scalable Vector Graphics - production and practice
- Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language - production and practice
- Streaming Media - setup and reasoning
- Live Broadcast
- Web Accessibility
- Advanced scripting for web multimedia - Action Script, Flex and server side languages

100% assignment assessing Learning Outcomes 1 to 4.
- A practical artefact, being a high multimedia content web site. It is likely that the artefact will be based on a rich media case study
- A presentation and report to support a literature review and the created web site.