312423 (v.1) Multi-Platform and Content Creation 222

Area:	Department of Film and Television
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This unit will locate contemporary New Media practices within a broader history of developments in technology and the traditional arts, tracing the evolution of digital media from the initial experiments in hypertext, animation and graphics to its current emergence as a new medium based on collaborative, distributed and interactive production modes. In the practical component, emphasis is placed on constructing and evaluating innovative form and content, and students will work with motion capture devices, blue screen technology and software to create virtual characters and worlds. The program will also allow for industry practitioners to contribute their expertise.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	100701 Audio Visual Studies
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External