Module Descriptors
ICON BASED MULTIMEDIA
FVFX50127
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Daniel Mccarthy
Email: D.J.McCarthy@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • ASSIGNMENT weighted at 30%
  • ASSIGNMENT - PRACTICAL weighted at 70%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
ASSIGNMENT Written length 2000 WORDS weighted at 30% covering Learning Outcomes 2, 3 and 4.
ASSIGNMENT Practical weighted at 70% covering Learning Outcomes 1 ,2, 3 and 4.
Module Indicative Content
Design of Icon Based multimedia projects which includes
Setting up interactive icons
navigation
moving objects
libraries
networking
Using variables, mathematical functions and expressions.

Creating interactivity using graphics, digital movies, drawings, text, hypermedia, motion and mathematical functions.
Module Learning Strategies
3 hours per week lecture/laboratory based tutorials and practical sessions providing 'hands on' experience of Icon Based Software.
(1:n)2 (1:40)2
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None.
Module Resources
Multimedia software, PC platforms.
Macromedia Authorware, user manual.
Macromedia Authorware, reference manual.
Macromedia Authorware, portfolio
Module Texts
Multimedia, Making It Work, 5th Edition, T Vaughan, Osborne McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-2190957
Authorware 5 Attain Authorized, Orson Kellogg, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-20-135411-X