Core Subjects
95563 Digital Media Development Process
Credit points: 6
Level: Postgraduate
Restrictions: availability: postgraduate degree students
Description: This subject examines the nature of the interactive multimedia development process. It explores job specifications, multimedia development teams and roles, interactive media project methods, costs associated with development, and significant environmental issues affecting digital media production such as government policies and legislation, including copyright and intellectual property.
95564 Digital Media Technologies
Credit points: 6
Level: Postgraduate
Restrictions: availability: postgraduate degree students
Description: This subject contributes to the core sequence as an overview of some of the software and hardware technologies utilised in the development and maintenance of moderately complex websites exhibiting sophisticated interactivity and which require a more systematic approach to management. It provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate an understanding of the skills and issues relevant to the creation and management of websites of moderate complexity. These skills may include simple HTML authoring, XHTML, cascading style sheets (CSS), browser scripting with Javascript, interaction with back-end database environments using scripting engines such as ColdFusion, PHP and WebObjects, and other skills as appropriate.
95565 Digital Graphics and the Still Image
Credit points: 6
Level: Postgraduate
Restrictions: availability: postgraduate degree students
Description: This subject introduces students to the production of screen-based graphics and visual literacy in the context of the online environment. Students are expected to produce projects for assessment demonstrating a high level of critical visual awareness. The subject aims to develop an appreciation of basic graphic design, typographic principles, audience awareness, visual research methods and processes particularly for web-based visual communication.
95566 Digital Information and Interaction Design
Credit points: 6
Level: Postgraduate
Restrictions: availability: postgraduate degree students
Description: This subject introduces students to the information and interaction design element of the multimedia production process. It encourages students to critically engage with interdisciplinary approaches to information and interaction design in a context of peer support and feedback, in order to forge their own unique personal theory. This theory is then applied to a real-world design project in which students work with a client, with advice and input from industry professionals.
95567 Digital Media in Social Context
Credit points: 6
Level: Postgraduate
Restrictions: availability: postgraduate degree students
Description: This subject uses the interdisciplinary approach of media studies to explore the debates around the role of the media in society, and the changes that digital media are reflecting and contributing to that role. It takes some of the common terms associated with new media – such as 'information revolution', 'global village', 'collapse of time and space', 'globalisation', 'constant change' and 'new forms of democracy' – and analyses their usage in a historical context to facilitate an informed and critical view of the issues.
95568 Digital Sound and the Moving Image
Credit points: 6
Level: Postgraduate
Restrictions: availability: postgraduate degree IML students only
Description: This subject introduces students to the uses of sound, moving image and interactivity in multimedia. Using practical and theoretical approaches, students are expected to examine the role of sound and the moving image in interactive media and refine the ability to make informed choices about using animation, audio and visual techniques in interactive contexts. The program used and supported in this class is Adobe Flash. Students gain basic skills in creating and applying sound and moving image for online products, together with programming skills in Flash's programming language Actionscript to increase interactivity.
95569 Digital Media Project
Credit points: 12
Level: Postgraduate
Restrictions: availability: postgraduate degree students
Description: This is a Capstone Project subject in which students consolidate the knowledge, skills and experience acquired in their studies. This is realised in the planning, development and production of a digital media product in a collaborative learning environment of a multimedia production team. Students are encouraged to critically innovate and experiment in their development process in the context of addressing a particular need as well as making an original contribution to the field of multimedia. The subject also provides students with the opportunity to explore possibilities for future development of their digital media product and careers in the multimedia industry.
