Subjects in the Bachelor of Multimedia

During my study in the Bachelor of Multimedia, I enrolled in the following subjects:

• Digital Video Production

This subject included production skills for further application within multimedia production, including video camera work, microphone techniques, lighting, script writing, non-linear video editing. Results are a short movie and a webpage incorporating RealVideo.

• Multimedia II

This subject taught me a comprehensive understanding of multimedia technology and its associated nature, language and genres. It emphasised the project management side of the production process, but also covered topics on effective design and interface principles. In an interdisciplinary environment, my group developed a CD-ROM application for the "Graduate Certificate of Multimedia".

• Professional Practice

This subject gave me further experience in business and management skills, like accounting, ethical and legal practices. I majored in "one-to-one web marketing" and my assignment investigated the usage of personalized webpages.

• Multimedia Project

This subject required analyses of a complex multimedia system problem to design, implement, install and test a high-quality solution. It gave an in-depth insight into software engineering and project management of large information technology projects. During this one year subject, my group "Übermedia" designed and implemented the Intranet based Induction Program for Blake Dawson Waldron, a major Australian law firm.

• Cognition and Computation

This subject gave me an in-depth insight into neural networks. The knowledge I gained on how people think and learn is valuable for my work on instructional design. As a result of the subject, I developed a neural network in Javascript.

• Multimedia

In this subject I learned how to integrate elements of multimedia to achieve effective interaction strategies and communications objectives. We also had many guest lectures from people in the multimedia business which made it possible for me to compare German and Australian use of new technology.

• Media Culture

This subject examined the history and context of contemporary mass media through notions of consumer culture, audience participation and cultural politics. I did a presentation on "How new media will affect television" and also investigated "Interactive games for large audiences".

• Additional subjects

  I also did the following extracurricular subjects:

  Distributed Multimedia Systems, Computer Animation and Multimedia Authoring