Learning Outcomes
The course is an introduction to digital media technology (image, sound, text) and available digital creation and editing tools. Upon completion of the course students will have advanced knowledge, skills and competencies related to the digitization of analogue media, the specificities of digital media and their compression and storage requirements, digital formats for managing, editing, reusing and delivering content and digital photography core editing concepts.
General Competences
- Applying knowledge to practice
- Search, analyze and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
- Adaptation to new situations and decision making
- Independent work
- Teamwork
- Working in an international environment
- Working in an interdisciplinary environment
- Project planning and management
- Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
Course Outline
Course Content
Digital Media — Basic concepts and principles, From analog information to digital data – Digitization, Media representation, Digital images and graphics, Resolution, Compression, File formats, image editing, tone and color – color models, color spaces, color management, text and digital typography, digital text, tagging, type character sets, hypertext, HTML and webpages.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Kolokythas, K., 2015. Digital media in the audiovisual arts. Athens: Association of Greek Academic Libraries.
- Nigel Chapman, Jenny Chapman. Digital Multimedia. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2009.
- Deligiannis G., 2007. Interactive Multimedia and Digital Technology in the Arts. Athens: Fagotto
- Kokkonis M., Paschalidis G., Bandimaroudis F., 2010. Digital Media. Athens: Critique Ed
- Course notes
- Online resources
Course bibliography is dynamically formulated and is always available at the beginning of the semester through the Foundation’s asynchronous education platform.