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Archived Version 2007 - 2008

Module Title Digital Imaging 2
Module Code CM240
School School of Communications

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Level 2 Credit Rating 10
Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Module Aims
  • To establish competence in the advanced use of the digital camera.
  • To introduce lighting, external flash, and the photographic studio as pertains to the digital experience.
  • To continue investigations into the complexities of compositional layered image making in the Photoshop, Image Ready, In-Design and Illustrator applications.
  • To investigate Print as a primary area of concern in the Digital domain.
  • To introduce and integrate the graphic image with multimedia practice.
  • To further investigate project concept building and content.
  • To define the relationship between the client and designer in commercial art.
  • To develop design strategies and rationales.
  • To contextualise multimedia production within the traditions of practice and critical-studies in visual culture.
  • To relate all areas of contemporary image making to the history of art, advertising, and media studies.

Assessment:

100% Continuous Assessment

Studio critique is the main form of assessment.



Learning Outcomes


Indicative Time Allowances
Hours
Lectures 0
Tutorials 0
Laboratories 24
Seminars 12
Independent Learning Time 114

Total 150
Placements
Assignments
NOTE
Assume that a 10 credit module load represents approximately 150 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module.

Indicative Syllabus
  • Weeks 1 - 3 : Photoshop Review -- Advanced Techniques in Layered- Image Making - Introduction to Illustrator -Print & Web-based Vector graphics -- Logos
  • Weeks 4 - 7 : Introduction to Gif Animation and Image Ready Weeks
  • 8 - 11: Commercial Packaging - Writing Design Briefs -- Developing a Project - Constructing Mood & Story Boards - Selling the Client Introduction to In-Design
  • Week 12 : Critiques
Assessment
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Indicative Reading List
  • Amelunxen, Iglhaut, & Rotzer (Ed.) Photography After Photography, G&B Arts, 1996
  • Beaumont, M. An Introduction to Typograph , Apple Press, London, 1990
  • Darley, A. Visual Digital Culture, Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres, Routledge. London, 2000.
  • Jones, S. (Ed.) Virtual Culture, Identity and Communication in CyberSociety, Sage, California, 1997
  • Laurel, B. Computers as Theatre, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1991
  • Lister, M. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture Routledge, NY, 1995
  • Marien, M. W. Photgraphy, A Cultural History, Lawrence & King, 2002
  • Mirzoeff, N. Visual Culture Reader Routledge, NY, 1998
  • Paul, C. Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, 2003
  • Tolsen, A. Mediations, Arnold, London, 1996
  • Traub C. & Lipkin J. In The Realm of the Circuit, Pearson-Prentice Hall,
  • Weinman, E. & Lourekas, P. Photoshop Peachpit Press, CA , 2004
  • Winston, B. Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television, BFI, London, 1996
Programme or List of Programmes
MMABSc in Multimedia
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