Syllabus
No.
Lectures (45 minutes)
Workshops (45 minutes) 1
Introduction to Managing Multimedia and Project Cycle Management
Project Selection/ Project Scoping Questionnaire 2
Project Cycle Management I (Scoping, Brainstorming, Proposal, Testing, Analyzing, Archiving)
Brainstorming /Project Management Tools/Setting up a website 3
Human Oriented Design & User Interface, Writing for Multimedia (do’s, dont’s)
Multimedia Assignment 1 (text) 4
Budgets, Cost Monitoring, Risk Management, Reporting
Basics of shooting video 5
Team Management (selecting team members, interviews)
Multimedia Assignment 2 (graphics) 6
Management Styles (leadership, management styles, successful teams, motivation)
Video Editing Tools, Multimedia Assignment 3 (video) 7
Localization (adapting projects for other languages and cultures)
Multi Language sites 8
Legal Issues (contracts, copyright, privacy)
Privacy, Terms of use, Cookies 9
Business Travel (flights, per diems, meetings)Digital Security & Cryptography
Planning a virtual business journey 10
Relationships with customers and partners, presentations (Surveys)
Surveys 11
Project Cycle Management II
Project proposal, project pitch 12
Team Project Presentation
Workshop Evaluation
Workshops:At the beginning of the semester students will select a project on which they will work as a team for number of weeks. At the end of the semester each group will be required to show a semi-working prototype and present it to the rest of the class.
Sample of project for selection: section of newspaper website showing delays of main highways/train routes subsite of NGO website presenting cases of human rights abuses in a country subsection of a television site for a special event (Elections,Olympic Games etc) subsite of UN website presenting development of number of HIV in a continent students can suggest their project as well
Annotation
Many journalist today are required to work on multimedia projects. Any journalism graduate should have the basic information about how these projects are created and what are some of the basic principles around them.
Therefore this course introduces students to management of multimedia projects (websites, apps. etc.) and basic concepts of Project Cycle Management.