Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Word Processing Facilities or equivalent

Disqualified Combination - CE00012-1 Digital Image Production

Student learning is centred around 6 one hour lectures and 9 two hour laboratory session. plus directed tutorial sessions All aspects of the content will be facilitated by lectures and tutorials, problem solving exercises and student centred learning.
Practical assignments using laboratory equipment and a simulation package will support the learning.

1. To develop skills in graphics technology and the relevant underlying mathematics
2. To Techniques and skills to develop interfaces for television titles and captions.
3. Knowledge of colour modes, image, acquisition, basic compression and image manipulation.

Individual technical report (30%) assessing learning outcomes 1 & 2.
Practical design based assessment (70%) for the creation of imagery which will assess learning outcome 3 & 4

Lea Derek - Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, Covering Photoshop CS3 (Digital Workflow) (Focal Press 2007) ISBN:978-0240520469
Williams Robin, DVD Design Workshop: A designers introduction to DVD menu design and DVD authoring, (Peachpit Press 2004) ISBN: 0-321-13628-4
After Effects and Photoshop: Animation and Production Effects for DV and Film, Jeff Foster, John Wiley and Sons Ltd (USA) (2006) ISBN:9780782144550
Curran Steve, Motion Graphics: graphic design for broadcast and film (Rockport Publishers Inc 2001 ISBN: 1-56496-838-3
Jury David, What is Typography? (Rotovision 2006) ISBN: 2-88046-822-1
Berger Arthur Asa, Seeing is Believing: An introduction to Visual Communication 2nd Ed (Mayfield Publishing 1997)