Gavilan College
Course: DM/Art/CSIS 114: Digital Media Production
Instructor: Robert Beede. See instructor’s page for office hours.

Schedule: Fall '09

Free lab hours (open studio) can be found here.

September 1, 3 Lecture: Introduction to class and Studio DM. Discussion of syllabus, schedule, requirements, and equipment availability/checkout. Examples of student productions.
Assignment: Get the book and read chapter 1 and 2.

September 8, 9

 Lecture: Discuss main project and use of copyrighted material. Play Promotional video. Review and identify video weak points. Assign video sections.
Assignment: Refine critique of video.
September 15, 17

Lecture: Presentation and discussion of promotional video reviews. Production steps.

Team sections for project development:

  1. Assett acquisition (e.g., films, Flash and 3D animation, movies, photo slide shows, music and print /web designs that were done by DM students in Studio DM). This may involve recording new material.too.
  2. Sound design and interview acquisition.
  3. Motion graphics/effects
  4. Highly special Effects
  5. Project management

Assignment: Get working in teams, develop a production plan and schedule. Use the Gant chart on the Shared Plan web site.
September 22, 24

Work on presentation treatment or a digital media proposal. Here are links to forms and directions.
Presentation treatment--http://teachers.sduhsd.net/mraines/documents/TreatmentTemplate.pdf
DM Proposal--http://www.pct.edu/itdl/media/proposal.htm
Gant chart can be found here - sharedplan.com
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November 10, 12 Lecture: (Last day for Cr/NC and withdrawal without a grade) TBA
Assignment: Modify your Shared Plan project schedule.
November 17, 19

Lecture: Meet with groups.
Assignment: Work on assigned production sections

November 24

Lecture: Milestones, and alpha/beta testing.
Assigment: Continue development work.

 
December 1, 3 Give Project reports including signing by client for this milestone.
Assignment: work on final steps
December 8, 10 Work on project.

Wed.,
December 15,
10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.

Finals Day! Bring your project ready to demonstrate to class. Make a report of your process (e.g., signoffs, coordination with client, probles encountered, and actua l development). Also, prepare all assets for copying to a hard drive, burning as data to a DVD (preferred), or copying to the server.

There is a final! It will cover steps on your development process and ratings of the other projects.

Syllabus, R Beede, Gavilan