Digital Media Arts

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Course description:  A course that offers students an opportunity to explore the fundamentals of both digital photography and the media arts.  Students will use digital cameras and computer software while exploring the many different art genres that technology offers.  Design will be the core emphasis of this course while using technology to experiment and make art.  Specific areas of study: photography (Photoshop), film (Adobe Premier and/or IMovie), animation (assorted software), and illustration (Adobe Illustrator).  Students will create an electronic portfolio (CD format) upon completion of the course.

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Grading: Grading will be based on production of assigned work, attendance, class participation, critiques, and homework. 
The semester grade will be 50% assigned projects (#1-4), 30% final project, and 20% classroom participation.  Grades will be made available online at: http://www.eclassinfo.com/home.asp?id=zimmer.

 
Fascinating Flash movie (above) created to help explain the evolution and history of the Internet.
The animation (above)  is not only informative, but also serves as a wonderful example of what can be
achieved using basic Flash functions (import raster graphic to stage, tween movement, orient object to path, synchronize sound to action, imbedded actions, etc.

Samples and inspirational images (educational use only!):
(Please note: These images are not approved for publication.  They are intended for motivational and sample use by Digital Art and Web design students only.)

Fine art print	Fine art print	Graphic design (vector image)
Corporate graphics (vector image) business package	Corporate graphic (vector image)	Independent project (image produced by student using CS4)
	We will create: Digitally generated fine art prints (large!) (Photoshop 7 and Painter 8) Business packages  (card, letter head, envelope, etc. -- Adobe Illustrator 10) A professional looking web site (DreamweaverMX, FrontPage, etc.)

Please note: These images (listed above) are not approved for publication.  They are intended
for motivational and sample use by Digital Art and Web design students only.