MIDTERM: None.

FINAL: Students will create an Interactive Multimedia CDROM / DVDROM Portfolio; This portfolio (1024 x 768 max stage size) will be delivered via a Hybrid Interactive CDROM /DVDROM that runs equally as well on MAC as on Windows systems. The student will balance the issues of delivering ALL work 2D, 3D models/ animations, videos, sounds, etc with both high bandwidth static media and low band dynamic media delivery, without the use of a browser. Both forms will be required to give the end user a complete dynamic multimedia experience. Minimum sections: main menu, contact, portfolio. All major sections must have an intro and exit animation. At least one button that opens a local cdrom file (i.e. resume.pdf)..

INSTRUCTOR:

• Jervis Thompson: st966rc2@drexel.edu

GRADING:

• 20% Class attendance & participation
• 35% Homework (functionality, content, creativity)
• 45% Final (functionality, content, creativity) [15, 15, 15]

EQUIPMENT:

• Macromedia Director 11.5 Bible
• Flash CS3 for Windows and Macintosh : Visual QuickStart Guide.. Optional
• At least two forms of backup media (flash drive, server storage, etc)
• Headphones (If you want to listen to music during lab time)
• Stack of blank CDROMs (CD-R)

Academic Honesty Policy

Drexel University is committed to a learning environment that embraces academic honesty. Faculty, students, and administrators share responsibility for maintaining this environment of academic honesty and integrity, accepting individual responsibility for all actions, personal and academic. Each member of our community is expected to read, understand, and uphold the values identified and described in our “Academic Polices, Procedures and Regulations” as written in the official student handbook. Instances of academic dishonesty, such as cheating and plagiarism, will be dealt with appropriately.

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E-mail: disability@drexel.edu

Acknowledging Conditions and Obligations in Syllabus

The student acknowledges receipt of this syllabus and the information herein contained by continuing to attend classes and turn in assignments. This syllabus is intended as a guideline. The instructor reserves the right to change from it in interest of responding to individual class need.

Lecture:

“Welcome… Time to play with the BIG DOGS 8-)”

Topics:

• Course Overview

• What this course is about
  • Interface preparation
  • Storyboarding and assets preparation
  • Images, Sounds, Animations, Videos, Text, etc.
  • Director 11.5 review

Homework:

• Due midnight the night before next class:
  • Adobe Flash and Director Resource Center
  • Terminology chart
  • Director Video Tutorials

Lecture:

“Digital Media Hubs”

Topics:

• DMX 2004 Interface Overview
• Cross Platform Hybrid vs. CDROM/Internet Hybrid
• Burning cross platform CDROMs with autorun feature
• Advance Intro/Exit Director Navigation
  • View sample
  • Download raw media

Homework:

• Watch “Director – Putting it all together” presentation
• HWK01 – Come to class with your first draft director movie. This movie should contain ALL of your media content in it’s cast library (MAC/WIN cdrom)
  • Interface images
  • Buttons
  • Images
  • Sounds
  • Videos (always link too external files)
  • Text

Lecture:

“Director Power”

Topics:

• Using photoshop cast member with layers
• Checking for available RAM, plus other goodies via Lingo
  • freeBytes()
  • _system.shutDown()
• Creating custom behaviors with Lingo.
  • View sample
  • Download raw media
  • Download “hotspot” sample movie
• Flash swf buttons:
  • Make sure stage size is the same size as button
  • Publish to 7 AS2

Homework:

• HWK02 – Come to class with your second draft director movie. (MAC/WIN cdrom)
  • This movie should contain your actual size major screen layouts
  • Navigation buttons on screens should have rollover functionality
    • Cursor change on mouse rollover
    • Member change on mouse rollover
    • Member change on mouse down
  • All major sections MAY have functional introduction and exit animations (optional)

Lecture:

“Traditional Art Tools vs. Internet art tools”

Topics:

• Homework review
• Dynamically loading and processing text from the Internet
  • Download working MAC/WIN executables
  • Download raw contact downloader

Homework:

• HWK03 – Come to class with your third draft director movie. (MAC/WIN cdrom optional)
  • This movie should contain your actual size major screen layouts
  • Navigation buttons on screens should have rollover functionality
    • Cursor change on mouse rollover
    • Member change on mouse rollover
    • Member change on mouse down
  • All major sections MUST have functional introduction and exit animations

Lecture:

“Advantages/Disadvantages of CDROM media”

Topics:

• NOTE: Next weeks class starts at 5:00 pm
• Main Navigation – troubleshooting
• Dynamically Downloading Text – troubleshooting

Lecture:

Is high bandwidth internet faster than CDROMs?

Topics:

• Class starts at 5:00 pm today
• Dynamically loading and processing images from the Internet
• Download raw background image downloader
• View burning a MAC/WIN CDROM

Homework:

• HWK04 – Come to class with your fourth draft director movie. (MAC/WIN cdrom required with *.dir file)
  • This movie should contain your actual size major screen layouts
  • Navigation buttons on screens should have rollover functionality
    • Cursor change on mouse rollover
    • Member change on mouse rollover
    • Member change on mouse down
  • All major sections MUST have functional introduction and exit animations
  • Text (i.e. contact info) that is dynamically downloaded and integrated into a screen
    • Alert required (with error number) on end user systems NOT connected to the internet
  • Image that is dynamically downloaded and integrated into a screen
    • Alert required (with error number) on end user systems NOT connected to the internet

Lecture:

Flash vs. Director

Topics:

• Intro/Exit animations with sub-navigation
  • How to naviagte within a main section
  • How to jump to an exit animation marker with sub-markers
  • Download raw Director file
• Flash movies within Director
  • Flash movie that send Director movie commands
  • Director movie that send Flash movie commands
  • Download a working sample of Flash and Director “talking” to each other

Homework:

• NONE

Lecture:

Advantages/Disadvantages of Quicktime movies within Director

Topics:

• Quicktime
  • Detection alert and quit using Lingo
  • Direct to stage
  • Built-in controller
  • Control with lingo commands
  • Limitations
• Director movies in a window Download
• Identifying unused cast members in cast library
• Disable keyboard Quit
• Download sample “autorun.inf” file
• Essential xtra for system access
  • Buddy API
  • Open external pdf file with native application .. sample
  • Install instructions

Homework:

• HWK05 – Come to class with your alpha draft final project. (MAC/WIN cdrom required with *.dir file and executables)
  • This movie should contain your actual size major screens
  • Navigation buttons on screens should have rollover functionality
    • Cursor change on mouse rollover
    • Member change on mouse rollover
    • Member change on mouse down
  • All major sections MUST have functional introduction and exit animations
  • Text (i.e. contact info) that is dynamically downloaded and integrated into a screen
    • Alert required (with error number) on end user systems NOT connected to the internet
  • Image that is dynamically downloaded and integrated into a screen with caption/description
    • Alert required (with error number) on end user systems NOT connected to the internet

Lecture:

Tricks of the Trade

Topics:

• Saving and retrieving user information on local hard drive
• Dynamically loading and processing text from user hard drive
• Download sample hard drive read/write files
• Homework 05 – CDROM reviews

Homework:

• Add meaningful content to your final project CDROM

Lecture:

CDROM’s let you do more, faster

Topics:

• Last call for trouble shooting

Homework – Submit via cross platform CDROM at the start (first 30 minutes) of next class during finals week

• Your final project MAC/WIN Hybrid CDROM
• CDROM must be labled “digm445finals###jwt23″ & Your Full Name
• [replace ### with your class section number, replace jwt23 with your drexel email account prefix]
  • Mac OSX and Window Projectors
  • Any externally linked files
  • Director *.dir file(s)