Supplies students should provide:

1. Students are expected to maintain current backups of their files. Students can use media in any of the following formats:

2. Students may need a digital camera for field assignments. SmartMedia and CompactFlash are the supported formats. And students may also need a camcorder for field work. MiniDV, VHS, and SVHS tapes are supported.

3. A pad of grid paper may be useful for sketching, taking notes, etc.

4. Students should also upgrade their home PC's with multimedia plug-ins for their web browser:

http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/
(download the Flash player and the Shockwave player)

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
(QuickTime player)

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html
(Acrobat reader)

Applications training:

334 course work requires the use of many software applications. Independently acquiring skill in the use of these tools is the student's responsibility. The following resources are available in the CS department:

The training CD titles available in the lab for 364 students are:

AppleScript, and AppleScript Studio

Director MX

Many of the SINC site labs maintained by Instructional Computing run the same software as the CS Multimedia lab:
http://moya.ic.sunysb.edu/Sinc/

Additionally, there are free-of-charge internet training resources:

Director:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/tutorial_index.html

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/index.html

To further supplement their training students may choose to consider:

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/index.asp
Lynda.com is a provider of multimedia applications traning CD's.
For $25 users can view all of the training archives on-line for one month.

http://www.vtc.com/
Video Training Courses (VTC) offers lower-cost training CD's.

http://www.macacademy.com/indexmac.html
MacAcademy is the oldest provider of software training CD's.

The following links are provided to facilitate independent research by students:

Multimedia and Authoring Resources on the Internet
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/media/resources/multimedia.html

Communication Arts magazine on-line
http://www.commarts.com/CA/

Advertising Age magazine on-line
http://www.adage.com/

CLICKZ - a new media marketing newsletter
http://www.clickz.com/

HotWired (Wired magazine on-line)
http://hotwired.lycos.com/

Webmonkey - web developer site
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

Graphic Artist's Guild
http://www.gag.org/

World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/

The MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu/

ACM SIGGRAPH: HyperGraph home page
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/toc.htm

ACM MMSIG: Multimedia Special Interest Group
http://www.acm.org/sigmm/

ACM SIGCHI: Interactions journal on-line
http://www.acm.org/interactions/

Links to exemplary multimedia production studios:

PIXAR: The 3D animation company that created Toy Story (and many other feature-length movies, such as Bug's Life and Monsters Inc.), and the venerable rendering software, Renderman
http://www.pixar.com/

Rythm & Hues: Digital media production studio
http://www.rhythm.com/

Voyager: Documentary CD ROM producer
http://voyager.learntech.com/cdrom/

Industrial Light and Magic (LucasArts): The special-effects team behind Star Wars and many other movies
http://www.ILM.com/

Flipside Studios: QuickTimeVR and digital photography
http://www.flipsidestudios.com/