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Digital Courses Outline
From digital still photography and graphic design to animation, mobile and other digital media - at Vega, our industry consciousness and global competitiveness means we need to give our students the digital edge.
Courses Outline
All training is presented on the Apple Operating System platform. For complete newcomers, an Apple Basics course helps introduce the Apple interface and allows students to familiarise themselves with its operating system before tackling more complex applications. Photoshop is recommended as a beginner's course for all three Vega Orbit Digital Media streams:
For the latest product and version information, please visit www.apple.com and www.adobe.com. Vega Orbit makes a point of keeping up to date with the latest developments in software and hardware.
Photographic manipulation, graphic design, digital illustration, typesetting, page layout and PDF publication.
Photoshop is used to manipulate and prepare photographic material and create illustrations in the pixel format. Illustrator is a vector format tool which is used to generate intricate line drawings, illustrations and diagrammatic representations. Once a designer has prepared all their visual material in Photoshop and Illustrator, they will place their images in InDesign, incorporating visual material into a professional page layout design. InDesign is a professional typesetting and page layout tool. Once the layout is completed, a designer will export and publish their layout to the PDF format according to appropriate output settings. Acrobat specialises in PDF document manipulation and converts static layout pages into interactive content suitable for e-mail, web and device publication.
Who Should Apply?
Prospective students who wish to improve their digital skills in graphic design, illustration, typesetting, page layout and desktop publishing. Although the primary output focus is still print, the PDF platform has been extended over time to encompass all digital output media, including the internet and other delivery devices.
Interactive animated website and device content design, construction and manipulation.
As a powerful text editing tool, Dreamweaver facilitates website design and construction through an interface that is accessible to both designers and developers. Photoshop is a primary tool in preparing all pixel based imagery for the web, and Flash facilitates the delivery of multimedia content through the SWF and FLV formats. Internet and device content delivery requires an introduction to the coding environment. A basic understanding of how to generate, source and manipulate codes such as HTML and ActionScript is key. The PDF publishing format and Acrobat also provide a powerful interactive multimedia content delivery tool.
Animation, video editing, compression technology and interactive delivery of mass multimedia and broadcast quality content.
Adobe Flash, and an understanding of Adobe ActionScript, delivers interactive multimedia content to the internet, mobile and eLearning environments. Final Cut Pro, along with the Final Cut Studio tools, prepares audio visual content for both the broadcast and mass multimedia environments. Adobe After Effects is a popular and powerful multimedia compositing, special effects and animation tool for film, broadcast and mass multimedia output.
Who Should Apply?
Prospective students who wish to advance their multimedia skills in mass multimedia (rich media) content delivery, television broadcast, animation and special effects.
