MULTIMEDIA SPECIALIST CERTIFICATE - Schedule | Course | Notes
Today, every type of business is looking to branch out onto the Web and other communication mediums using Multimedia to promote and ultimately sell their products and services to a much wider audience. Our Multimedia Specialist Course is a combination of visual communication design used with sound, movement, and interactivity to create new immersed media or websites. Consulting Solutions.Net's Multimedia Design Course is for people interested in developing, publishing, or presenting digital media and interactive websites. Students will learn the design and interface skills necessary to apply to a website, CD-Rom, intranet, and other emerging communication mediums.

Course Description

Multi-Media Specialists transform usually static visual communication and advertisements into dynamic, interactive immersed media with sound and movement utilizing computers. In this course, the student will learn document conversion from paper to electronic media, perform website animation utilizing Flash technology, and produce computer based advertising compact discs. Students will also learn: creation of desktop movies and videos, achieving the correct camera shot, writing storyboards, and editing videos. At the end of this course the student will have a working knowledge of Fireworks 8, Dreamweaver 8, Adobe Acrobat Pro CS2, Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, Sony DV300 Professional DVCAM, Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, and will have an intermediate knowledge level of Flash 8. Students will create the following deliverables for themselves or a chosen business:

1.Complete print identity package (logo, business cards, letterhead, envelopes)

2.Complete promotional website

3.Complete promotional CD-Rom including CD label layout

4.Complete promotional digital commercial

After completion of this course, students will be prepared to work in the following occupations: Court Videographer, Video editor, Advertising technician, Multimedia Artist, Computer Animator. Multi-Media specialists are found in a wide range of work settings such as: in a court room televising the proceedings; in a company preparing training media for new hires; at a crime scene taking photos for evidence; at a production studio creating animated short stories for kids; or in a large advertising agency creating the entire ad campaign from print ads to websites for a major client.

Admission Requirements

1.Individuals applying for this course are required to interview with an Academic Advisor

2.Present proof of education (high school diploma or GED certificate)

3.Achieve a passing score on the CSN Basic Skills Test for this particular course

Class Session

MultiMedia Specialist Certificate: 168 hours : 14 weeks                                                

Course Schedule: Tues & Thur (or Mon & Wed) 5:30pm - 9:30pm,
Sat 9:00am - 4:30pm

Normal Class Size: up to 12 students