T452 Topical Seminar in Design and Production

Topic: Transmedia Flash Design: Mobile, Broadcast, Kiosk, and Beyond.

Prerequisite: permission of Instructor

Online Authorization Required.  Contact Instructor
(ecwatral@indiana.edu) for more information.

Course Description and Objectives

As one of the most popular and versatile applications for creating
digital multimedia, Macromedia Flash wears (and has worn) many hats.
Flash has always been at the cutting edge of technology for the
delivery of compelling animated content. And, as a vector-based
medium, Flash is able to deliver the goods at a fraction of the
bandwidth required by other animated media. What many people don’t
realize is that Flash can do much more that simply create bandwidth-
efficient vector animation. As the application continues to evolve,
its scope broadens more and more. Flash is now one of the most
flexible interactive digital media authoring tools available,
offering the capabilities to run not only on the Internet and
desktop computer platforms, but on game consoles and mobile devices
as well. It is truly, multimedia.

In this class, students will explore the tools and techniques
necessary to bring Flash to non traditional platforms such as mobile
devices, broadcast media, kiosk, consumer devices, gaming consoles,
and iTV.  In addition, students will explore non-traditional web
based manifestations of Flash such as edutainment, educational
applications, and digital storytelling.  Ultimately, the point of
this course is to empower students to think “out of the box” when it
comes to interactive Macromedia Flash applications,  and direct
their creative energies to authoring “real world” products that
stretch the boundaries of their talents and the traditional ideas
of “what Flash is.”


Course Format

The course will be broken into dynamic lectures, hands on exercises,
group production, and student concept presentations/pitches.


Texts

No assigned texts.  electronic copied of assigned readings will be
placed on e-reserve (http:// http://ereserves.indiana.edu).


Meeting Times

Monday/Wednesday, 11:15-12:30, RTV 250