The coursework will involve the creation of a practical artefact and a report of 2000 words. The artefact will involve creating a small 20 page application rich in media and interaction. A major focus of the artefact will be to produce an application that uses suitable and optimised media. Typically this could be something such as a brochure online to promote a product.
(Learning outcomes 1, 2, and 3)

Students will look at several elements of web multimedia. This will include the following
- Comparison of different uses of multimedia on the web
- Web Multimedia Design
- Streaming Media - setup, deployment, encoding and reasoning
- Advanced scripting for web multimedia - Action Script
- Web Multimedia Testing
- Technical Issues - compression and bandwidth.
- Scalable Vector Graphics, Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language, Panoramas, Flash video
- Live Broadcast
- Web Accessibility for multimedia web sites
- Multi-user distributed multimedia
- Mobile Multimedia applications
- Podcasts

The lectures 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, and Internet references. Lab sessions will involve tutorials on scripting, web media design, practical media development, and assembly of media into an application. Group discussions will also take place in the sessions.

Notes for all areas and referenced reading will be given by the teaching team.

Background reading
Flash Filmmaking 101 (1st edition), Da Silva, N, (2006), Publisher Course Technology Ptr, ISBN 1598632582
Writing for Multimedia and the Web, Third Edition : A Practical Guide to Content Development for Interactive Media, Garrand T, (2006), Publisher: Focal Press; 3 edition , ISBN: 0240808223

Notes on web.
Browsers, media resource software and editors.

None.