COMM 103 - Electronically Generated Imaging

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description

This course provides the skills necessary to produce stop motion photography film tracks. This type of photography is used in movie special effects.

Prerequisite COMM 101, COMM 102, and COMM 114 or COMM 116.

Text
No text required.

Objectives
A. Layer multiple images (scanned or photographically generated) to produce a single, professional image.

B. Utilize color-manipulating techniques on scanned or photographically generated images.

C. Process captured images in professional digital files.

D. Maintain organized images for future use.

E. Create professional marketable imagery.

Student Evaluation
A. Digital imaging aesthetics

B. Digital enhancement

C. Digital editing

D. Professional scanned images

E. Manipulation of digital cameras and scanner imagery

F. Creative treatments of professional images that sell

G. Creative output: Making digital files into high quality products

Bibliography
Chapman, Nigel and Jenny Chapman. Digital Multimedia. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Wiley, 2004.

Costanzo, William. The Writer’s Eye. New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.

Finn, David. How to Look At Everything. New York: Abrams, 2000.

International Museum of Photography from 1839 toToday: George Eastman. Photography at George Eastman House. Rochester: Taschen, 2000.

Rush, Michael. Video Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003.

Stevenson, George. Graphics Arts Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Vaughan, Tay. Multimedia: Making It Work. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008.

Wilde, Richard. Problems, Solutions: Visual Thinking for Graphic Communicators. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986.

Williams, Robin. The Non-Designer’s Design Book. 2nd ed. Berkeley: Peachpit, 2004.

Wixel, Suzanne, Jennifer Fulton, et al. Multimedia Basics. Boston: Thomson, 2004.