2. CD-book, CD-magazine, multimedia  title (such as computer slide show) and document: they are electronic files authored by various types of software and stored in CD-based or mass storage media.

3. Web Publishing, webpage, website, and web community: they are not necessary to have a local storage; they are virtual interaction in the cyber world.

However, there are new growing extended forms from web-based media, such as E-book, E-magazine, which use specific player instead of PC, and mobile media.

The second semester of this course will focus on the third application, animated and 3-D media. Prerequisite of the training of the previous two applications, static and 2-D media in the first semester is required for the students who want to take this course. (*Students who miss the first semester must study the fundamental skills by themselves.)

The studies of this course support a triple post area: design, technology and management.

DESIGN. The teacher will introduce ‘TX’s theory on Media Aesthetics’ to explore what are the tips of successful media design. The answer will be ‘Style and Formation’. The class also will learn ‘TX’s theory on Process Engineering’ to accomplish the media design practice in professional, longitudinal, large-scaled, portable and group work requirements.

TECHNOLOGY. This course will illuminate the concept of ‘tool independency’. We will explain and reason the technology more than demonstrate the techniques. The knowledge of this course can be applied to any software. However, under the concerns of the popularity, availability, future usability and price of the tools, we have to adopt Microsoft and Ulead families’ tools including platform and application. The teacher will guide to use tools in editing text, graphic, image, animation, video, sound, music and web. This course also will employ peripherals and production equipment such as scanner, digital camera, digital video recorder, MIDI…etc. The teaching of advanced tools will be decided by the progress of students’ assignment.

MANAGEMENT. Management is works more than words. Students will have good opportunity to experience the implication of goal, method, and action in management during the assignment of this course. They can learn what is planning and implementation, teamwork and integration, production and marketing. During the group work they will really touch what is communication and negotiation, one for all and all for one, incentive and checking assessment, leadership and the preparation from a team player. The teacher will also emphasize the ideas of market, risk, budgeting, profit and the media as business.

This course will lead students entering this promising interdisciplinary territory or getting ready for further research. It is an interactive place for students form pluralistic majors to enlighten and encourage each other. This course is engaging students who can take care of the whole thing and can look out the future.

Enjoy the course!

二、 授課方式 Meeting and Counseling

1.     Class meeting and Hand-on practice. Since this course has a thorough continuity in course design, students should avoid to miss any topic of the learning chain.

2.     Individual counseling: Tue.-Thur. afternoon by appointment. Extra-hour counseling may be available, if it is for volunteering learning activity.

3.     Telephone counseling: (02)2236-8225 Ext.63347, 0921807365

4.     Email counseling: txwu@ntu.edu.tw

5.     Online counseling: Sean TX Wu

三、教學大綱與進度Course Outline