I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Interactive Design & Production

2. Course Prefix & Number:
VPRO 2120

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 1

Lab Hours: 4

4. Course Description:

This course provides practical experience in authoring and managing visual media to various formats. Students will learn techniques in DVD authoring and menu controls, uploading to social media sites and web or presentation placement. Students will develop their portfolio reels.

5. Placement Tests Required:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):

Videography Production, AAS Degree
Videography Production, Diploma

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations	Process the transfer of raw video files to authoring media
Utilize appropriate technology	Manipulate multiple projects to distribution

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Create a menu DVD
• Produce a kiosk DVD
• Develop motion graphics
• Animate 2D graphics
• Understand tweening
• Create symbol movies
• Create shape movies
• Design web sites
• Create Splash pages
• Develop an E-folio
• Collect video projects
• Enhance video movies
• Converting movie codecs
• Develop portfolio reel
• Develop a digital portfolio

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. DVD authoring concepts
• Kiosking
• Menu driven
• Portfolio discussion
2. Compression
• Selecting codecs
• Streaming and webcasting
• E-mailing movies
3. Website design
• Importing graphics
• Importing video
• Linking buttons
• Understanding CSS
• Selecting a host
• Choosing a domain name
• Uploading website
4. Develop animation
• Work with symbols
• Work with shapes
• export files
• Importing to web
• Create a splash page
5. Develop an E-folio
6. Develop a digital portfolio

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions

1. DVD creation projects
• Kiosk
• Menu
• Chapter tags
2. Compression projects
• Codecs
• website
• DVD
3. Updating past projects
• Upgrade videos
4. 2D animations
• Button controls
• Symbol movies
• Shape movies
• Scripting
5. Motion graphics
• Develop 2D
• Develop 3D
• Typography
6. Web site construction
• Domains
• Linking
• FTP
7. E-folio
• Write up
• Development
8. Reel development
• Portfolio
• Website Management