Lesson Plan for Digital Media Course at Hopeworks 2002

Introduction to Hardware and Concepts

a. Basic Mac Hardware and OS
b. Use of Macs in the Graphic Arts
c. The Digital Difference - advantages of digital technologies

1. Explain analog vs. Digital
2. Explain what this means to them and the possibilities

d. Digital Still Cameras - types, features and resolutions

1. How Autofocus works
2. What you get in different price ranges

e. Digital Video Cameras - types, formats, prices, uses

1. Explain DV video as compared to other/film, etc.
2. Wide screeen, 4:3 and other formats
3. What you get for your money when buying a DV

f. Demo of video, still, pano and object photography for online and offline.
g. Tripods, panoramic heads, turntables explained.

Putting the Equipment to use

a. Using the digital still camera
b. Importing and editing stills for use on and offline
c. Digital Still formats, resolution and priniting explained - Photoshop refresher
d. Creating a web gallery - Using stand-alone FTP clients to upload pics/video
e. Basics of UNIX web server accounts including command line access.
f. Using a DV camcorder
g. Planning a video shoot - storyboarding
h. Using iMovie to import and edit DV Video
i. Consider ideas for shoot in lesson 3.

Create

a. Plan and shoot video of Hopeworks or street scenes, etc for use in creating mock commercial, music video or interviews.
b. Create project in iMovie and edit video
c. Create object photography samples using turntable

a. Video Output for the web/ for CD / For DVD / for VHS
b. Embedding Video in web pages
c. Best practices for using video online
d. Explanations of professional video programs- Final Cut, Adobe Premeir, AVID.
e. Marketing and Job Ideas for Graphic and Video Skills.