MultiMedia Engineer - MME

MultiMedia Engineer (MME) is the education for web and interaction design. It's the largest education that College of MultiMedia (CMM) offers. After succesfull completion of MME you are able to work as a professional web designer and/or interaction designer.

The MME education is build up from modules.

Modules MultiMedia Engineer - MME

• Web Development
• Web Development Advanced
• Interactive Media

Curriculum

The MME education can be undertaken in either two ways, part-time or full-time. The part-time course is build up from three modules of half a year each, namely Web Development, Web Development Advanced and Interactive Media.

The full-time course combines these three modules into a one year program.

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Structure MultiMedia Engineer education.

Web Development

The first module Web Development teaches you the fundamental disciplines necessary for professional web authoring. This includes project planning (concepting), Graphical User Interface design, audio, video and graphics production, and web authoring by typing the source code manually, as well as using wysiwyg editors like DreamWeaver™ from Macromedia. Your graduation project is a complete web site.

Web Development Advanced

In the module Web Develoment Advanced your knowledge is expanded with skills that will allow you to construct web sites with a higher level of interaction. These skills include publishing of online (streaming) video and audio, desiging three dimensional models and animations, management and control of your visual design via Cascading Style Sheets, adding interaction to your website with the JavaScript programmming language, and producing interactive animations and small applications with Flash and its programming language called ActionScript. As in Web Development you finish this module with a graduation project in the form of a complete interactive web site.

Interactive Media

The third module called Interactive Media is focussed on the production of rich interactie media like cd/dvd-roms. This module includes subjects like cd/dvd-rom authoring with industrial standard software called Director and its programming language called Lingo, the technology and production skills of dvd videos, building a complete Flash website with a high level of interaction programmed with the language called Actionscript, publishing ShockWave productions, and projectmanagement and communication skills for presenting yourself or your product. At the end of this module you have created a dvd and a Flash website, and a graduation project in the form of an interactive cd-rom.

During all three modules, next to your graduation projects, you will also undertake different exercises and assignments like building a 3D model and editing audio and video. your theory knowledge is tested with what we call progression tests. These contain multiple choice and open questions as does the final theory exam which you undertake at the end of each module.

Onderwerpen

The curriculum is based upon the integration of five major subjects called concept, audio, video, graphics and authoring. These subjects are covered extensively in theory as well as in practice.

Concept

In the subject called concept, you learn the the entire proces of creating a concept, from setting up a brainstorm session to creating a style book and storyboard. After finishing your concept you can start the production of audio visual content.

Audio

In the subject called audio, we teach you what sound is, how you should record sound with microphones in a studio, how you can edit and create special effects, and everything on file formats and compression techniques to publish your audioproduction on the internet or a cd-rom or dvd-rom.

Video

Video is the subject in which we cover the difference between all the international video standards, how to digitize (capture) video with professionel equipment, how to edit and create special effects and compositions with your footage. Furthermore you learn everything on compression and file formats to publish your video content streaming or non-streaming on the internet, a cd-rom or dvd.

Graphics

The subject graphics covers the design of Graphical User Interfaces, scanning and retouching of images, producing bitmap and vector graphics, modelling and animating 3D objects, and everything about file formats and compression techniques to use your images on the web or in interactive media.

Authoring

Authoring is combining audio visual content into an interactive application by using special software and programming languages. To learn this we teach you xhtml, Flash and Director(ShockWave) as well as programming skills in JavaScript, ActionScript (language of Flash) and Lingo (language of Director). During the courses your programming skills grow to a professional level.

All the mentioned subjects are covered repeatedly and in a logical order during all modules with an increasing level.

Beside all these subjects you also learn about projectplanning and projectmanagement and how to utilize industry standard software like Photoshop and Dreamweaver for the production of all your projects.

Facilities

During your study at CMM you can use our professional facilities like a complete audiostudio, a videostudio with green-screen wall and spacial workstations for video-editing, dvd-authoring and 3D-modelling. During the practice lessons you will be working on workstations with all the latest versions of the used software.

Also outside the regular lesson hours it is possible to book a workstation in our practice area to work on school excersis and exam projects.

For an impression of all the facilities at College of MultiMedia visit our picture gallery.

Toelatingseisen

Toelatingseisen voor de opleiding zijn:

• Goede computervaardigheden zoals met het besturingssysteem
• Bij voorkeur wiskunde in het vooropleidingspakket
• Goed begrip van de Engelse taal. (Een deel van het lesmateriaal, de boeken en de software is in het Engels.)

Inschrijfprocedure

Na het inleveren van een compleet ingevuld inschrijfformulier en een recent curriculum vitae volgt een persoonlijk intake-gesprek met een van de docenten. Hierin wordt naast je kennis en achtergrond, ook je motivatie bekeken. (Voor mensen die in het buitenland verblijven bestaat er de mogelijkheid om het intakegesprek op een van tevoren vastgesteld tijdstip telefonisch uit te voeren.)

Verder studeren?

De drie modules binnen de MultiMedia Engineer opleiding zijn complete en op zichzelf staande modules. Bij successvolle afronding van alle drie de modules Web Develpment, Web Development Advanced en Interactive Media ontvang je het diploma MultiMedia Engineer.

Na het behalen van het diploma MultiMedia Engineer kun je (met een verplichte additionele PHP/MySQL cursus) doorstuderen aan Staffordshire University in Engeland voor een Bachelor's degree of Arts of Bachelor's degree of Science.