| Week |
Dates |
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| 1 |
1.13/14 |
Introduction to Director |
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| 2 |
1.20/21 |
Course focus |
(concept, technique, design), examples, interactivity |
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Lingo |
dir environment: Director metaphors - casts, score, stage, scripts, etc.
, score script, movie script, sprites, locH, locV, the mouseH, the mouseV,
true/false |
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Project |
personal description with photo |
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1.23/26 |
Lingo |
random(), rollover(), if/then/else/end if condition, sprite properties:
blend, visible/not visible, text/fields, not, tool palette |
| 3 |
1.27/28 |
Theory |
syllogisms (<,>,<>, =, not,true,false), communication structure |
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Lingo |
frame to frame, markers, mousedown - text highlight, navigation, 4 different
scripts, local/global variables |
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Project |
8-item menu assign, map, interactive comic (metaphor.dir, archive menu) |
| |
1.30/2.2 |
Lab |
(completion of menu project) individual meetings |
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Text |
Computing Multimedia, chapter 4 |
| 4 |
2.3/4 |
Theory |
montage/mise-en-scene, non-linear narrative structure |
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Lingo |
sound, puppetsound, volume |
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Semester Project: Concept Development |
storyboard design/lay-out rough version |
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2.6/9 |
Lab |
web/library research/individual meetings |
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Text |
Section from Understanding Comics,
research |
| 5 |
2.10/11 |
Theory |
sequence, image/text relationships, comics, films
research - narrative, image/text, comics, cinematic structures |
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Lingo |
QuickTime |
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Semester Project: Concept Development |
storyboard design/lay-out clean version |
| |
2.13 |
Lab |
web/library research/individual meetings |
| 6 |
2.17/18 |
Presentation/discussion |
storyboard final project |
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Theory |
introduction to semiotics, signs |
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Lingo |
text handling |
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Semester Project |
Organize image/texts |
| |
2.20/23 |
Lab |
web/library research/individual meetings |
| 7 |
2.24/5 |
Theory |
image/text sequence - individual meetings |
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Lingo |
answers to questions |
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Semester Project |
score assembly |
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Lab |
web/library research/individual meetings |
| 8 |
3.3/4 |
Theory |
Metaphors |
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Lingo |
answers to questions |
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Semester Project |
Lingo scripting |
| 9 |
3.10/11 |
Individual Meetings |
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Lingo |
answers to questions |
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|
Semester Project |
finalize production/review |
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3.13/16 |
Lab |
web/library research/individual meetings |
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Final quiz/test |
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| 10 |
3.17/18 |
Final presentations: Semester Project |
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