You will learn about historical developments in Music and be shown how the industry has constantly embraced technology in many forms to become the vibrant industry it has become today.
You will learn about:
- Music Globalisation
- Cultural changes
- Live performance developments
- The evolution of Music Technology.

One of the key topics will be the influence that multimedia and the Web have had on the Music industry, with this in mind you will study the technology behind the creation, development and distribution of multimedia assets with a particular focus on their use on the Web. Topics covered will include:
- Media asset creation
- Introduction to compression technologies for image and video assets
- Formatting media assets for specific purpose
- Web design and development from first principles of HTML as well as utilising integrated software solutions
- Navigational design strategies
- Positioning Objects
- Web Media
- Managing websites

100% In course assessment to cover all learning outcomes.

Portfolio to include design documents, multimedia assets, websites and logbook with milestones and final technical report.

24 x 1 hour lecture
24 x 2 hour practicals (groups of 20)

Drop in surgery (30 mins pw)

Technical Instruction on use of Digital Video Cameras

Disqualifying combination - any other Level 4 Web Development modules. See module or award tutors for clarification.

The Web Collection Revealed Premium Edition: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Flash CS5 and Photoshop CS5 [Paperback]
Sherry Bishop (Author), James E. Shuman (Author), Elizabeth Eisner Reding (Author)
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 1 edition (September 3, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1111130736

Available on Safari:
Introducing HTML5
By: Bruce Lawson; Remy Sharp
Publisher: New Riders
Pub. Date: July 11, 2010
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-68729-9

Any HTML5, CSS textbooks
www.w3schools.com

Adobe creative suite or equivalent
Digital Video cameras