Introduction
Students attending this course are taught a range of skills such as how to produce interactive presentations incorporating video, audio, animation and graphics. Subjects are taught on Apple Mac computers.
Students are taught on a one to one basis as much as possible. The majority of work on the course is practical rather than theory based, therefore students on this course produce varied and substantial portfolios.
Multimedia Production Level 5 Application Form
Minimum Entry Requirements
- Leaving Certificate or equivalent
- Sucessful completion of interview
- Applications from mature students will be considered
Multimedia Room
Duration:
This is a one year daytime course. Students attend three and a half days per week and are given course work to complete outside of classtime.
Course Modules
Mandatory modules
- Multimedia Authoring
- Multimedia Project Development
- Design
- Image Processing
- Communications
- Work Experience
- Media Analysis
Elective Modules (one of the following to be chosen)
- Animation
- Computer 3D Modelling & Animation
- Digital Movie Processing
- Graphic Design Skills
Career Opportunities / Further Studies
This full level 5 certificate facilities entry to the Multimedia , Level 6 course in Kinsale. It also facilities entry on a competitive basis to a range of third level colleges.
As part of the work experience module each student spends ten days working for a company or organisation. Marcin Pikula, (who completed the course in 2010), spent his ten days of work experience working for ’Walsh Printers ‘, in Clonakilty. Walsh Printers, offered Marcin a full time job as a graphic designer, once he had completed his level 5 certificate.
Facilities in this Department
This department contains the most up to date hardware and software. Students on this course are assigned their individual Apple Mac computer, which they can work at all day everyday that they are in class.
Facilities include wireless Apple Mac, wide screen G5s, a range of digital video cameras, still cameras, scanners, sound recording equipment, music/soundtrack production equipment, colour and black & white laser printers and ink jet printers. We have a green screen animation room, in which students can produce stop-motion animations, with the option of mixing them with live video. 3D computer animations can also be produced using Cinema 4D.
Software includes; Cinema 4D, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Microsoft Office.