Syllabus: B Sc IT (Semester Three) Multimedia Technology

TBI 305: Multimedia Technology and Animation

Unit-1
What is Multimedia? Multimedia systems, Characteristics, and Applications; Delivering Multimedia – Storage media or Networks;

Text in Multimedia -  Character Sets and Alphabets;Fonts and Faces; Using Text in Multimedia; Computers and Text; Font Editing and Design Tools; Hypermedia and Hypertext.

Unit-2

Images: Making Still Images- Bitmap, Bitmap Sources; Bitmap Software, Bitmap Software;  Vector Drawing - How Vector Drawing Works, Vector-Drawn Objects vs. Bitmaps; 3-D Drawing and Rendering – modelling, Shading, Rendering;Image File Formats;

Colors:Understanding Natural Light and Color, Computerized Color - Additive Color, Subtractive Color, Computer Color Models, Color Palettes;  

Unit-3

Sound - Power of Sound; Digital Audio;Making Digital Audio Files- Audio Recording; File Size vs. Quality:MIDI Audio – MIDI notation, sequencer software, sound Synthesizer; MIDI vs. Digital Audio;Audio File Formats;

Video - Video Working and display;Analog Video- NTSC, PAL, SECAM; Digital Video – HDTV;Displays - Interlacing and Progressive Scan; Digital Video Containers – Codecs, MPEG, Video Format Converters;Obtaining Video Clips; Shooting and Editing Video- The Shooting Platform, Storyboarding, Lighting, Nonlinear Editing (NLE);

Unit-4
Animation -  Principles of Animation; Animation by Computer- Animation Techniques - Cel Animation, Computer Animation, Animation File Formats; Making Animations- Creating an Animated Scene; 

Unit-5
Developing Multimedia Applications: Stages of a Multimedia Project;Multimedia skills; Multimedia requirements – Hardware, Software, Authoring Systems, Choosing an Authoring Tool; Multimedia team;Multimedia Planning and Costing, Designing and Producing; Delivering Multimedia;