diploma in multimedia technology

12 months

The Diploma in Multimedia Technology program is designed to guide students using their talent in developing multimedia contents and maintain a creative mindset when managing and producing multimedia-related products. Students will learn the practical, creative and communication skills necessary to plan, design and construct interactive multimedia applications along with digital audio and video.

• Semester 1: Graphic Design (2 months)
  • Adobe Photoshop

    A popular high-end image editor for the Macintosh and Windows from Adobe. The original Mac versions were the first to bring affordable image editing down to the personal computer level in the late 1980s. Since then, Photoshop has become the de facto standard in image editing. Although it contains a large variety of image editing features, one of Photoshop's most powerful capabilities is layers, which allows images to be rearranged under and over each other for placement. Photoshop is designed to read from and convert to a raft of graphics formats, but uses its own native format for layers (.PSD extension).

  • Adobe Illustrator

    A full-featured drawing program for Windows and Macintosh from Adobe. It provides sophisticated tracing and text manipulation capabilities as well as color separations. Illustrator was originally developed for the Mac in 1987 and, up until Version 7.0, which was introduced in 1997, the Mac version included more features. The Macintosh version is the most widely used drawing and composition program for the Mac platform.

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 2: web design (3 months)
  • HTML

    HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page. The markup tells the Web browser how to display a Web page's words and images for the user. Each individual markup code is referred to as an element (but many people also refer to it as a tag). Some elements come in pairs that indicate when some display effect is to begin and when it is to end.

  • CSS

    A cascading style sheet (CSS) is a Web page derived from multiple sources with a defined order of precedence where the definitions of any style element conflict. The Cascading Style Sheet, level 1 (CSS1) recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is implemented in the latest versions of the Netscape and Microsoft Web browsers, specifies the possible style sheets or statements that may determine how a given element is presented in a Web page.

  • JavaScript

    A widely used programming language that is embedded in most Web pages. Supported by all Web browsers, it enables interactive functions to be added to Web pages, which are otherwise static. JavaScript evolved from Netscape's LiveScript language. JavaScript Is Plain Text JavaScript source code is plain text that resides between Begin-Script and End-Script HTML tags in the Web page. Along with myriad other functions, JavaScript is used to enable interactive page elements such as navigation buttons and drop-down menus. It is also used to identify the page to analytics servers that capture traffic statistics.

  • Adobe Dreamweaver

    A comprehensive Web site authoring program for Windows and Mac from Adobe. Dreamweaver is a sophisticated authoring package that enables the HTML programmer to build complex interactive Web sites using HTML, JavaScript and server-side programming languages. It is not a wizzywig program, allowing the user to drag and drop images on any part of the page. In fact, many common Web elements are best coded in HTML, and Dreamweaver immediately renders the code in a design window. Prebuilt templates provide rudimentary foundations for creating Web pages. Dreamweaver was originally developed by Macromedia, which was acquired by Adobe in 2005.

  • Adobe Flash

    A multimedia authoring and playback system from Adobe. Flash content is created in authoring applications, such as Flash MX and Flash Professional, and viewed in any computer that has the Adobe Flash Player installed. Flash animations support space-efficient vector images, which download quickly; a feature that helped catapult Flash to success when dial-up access was the norm

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 3: 2D Animation (2 months)
  • Toon Boom

    Toon Boom is an innovative piece of software that allows you to create animation and storyboarding. Toon Boom's software lets you design and create professional, industry-grade graphics. ... Animation, among others.

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 4: Non Linear Editing & VFX (3 months)
  • Adobe Premiere

    Adobe Premiere is a video editing software package suitable for both amateur enthusiasts and professionals. It can be purchased and used alone, or alongside other applications such as Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, etc.

  • Adobe After Effects

    Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, rotoscoping, compositing and animation. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor and media transcoder.

  • Chroma Keying

    In graphics and digital video editing programs, chroma key is a function that renders a specific color in a layer transparent. In television and film, it's the technique of using a monochromatic background for the purpose of replacing it with a different image or scene in post-production. In the film industry it's called blue screen.

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 5: Digital Audio Production (1 months)
  • Sony Sound Forge

    Sony Sound Forge is a digital audio editing software that includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for manipulating audio. Sound Forge software allows you to edit, record, encode, and master nearly any form of digital audio including WAV, AIFF, and MP3.

  • Adobe Audition

    Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro) is a digital audio workstation from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view.

  • Project Work

    Project Work refers to all of the assignments, products, and projects that students complete to demonstrate what they have learned. Student work could include creative designs, research papers, essays, presentations, tests, videos, and portfolios, among many other potential products.

• Semester 6: Project & Portfolio (1 Month)