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Unit of Study COMP6003 - Contemporary Multimedia Resources (2022)

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Unit description

Provides students with methods, skills and tools to analyse, contextualise, develop, optimise and manage contemporary multimedia resources for enhancing user experience. It takes students through the creative production of multimedia resources to build functional interactive applications. Students also examine issues related to performance, privacy, security and cultural aspects of multimedia products.

Unit content

Module 1: Introduction to digital media, animation and graphics
Module 2: Audio and video effects and encoding
Module 3: Designing for multi-modal interactivity
Module 4: Storage and delivery of multimedia products
Module 5: Managing multimedia production
Module 6: Performance, privacy, security and cultural aspects of multimedia products

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Gold Coast
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Melbourne N/A
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Online
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Perth N/A
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Sydney N/A
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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

analyse various types of contemporary multimedia resources and distinguish their characteristics.

contextualise, develop and optimise contemporary multimedia resources for interactive applications.

manage team-based creative production.

evaluate and propose solutions to performance, security, privacy and cultural aspects of multimedia resources.

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Vaughan, T, 2014, Multimedia: Making It Work, 9th edn, McGraw Hill Education.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.