Interactive Animated Movie Project: Digital Media Coursework

This project requires students to develop an interactive animated movie with a minimum duration of one minute, focusing on a chosen topic from a provided list. The goal is to create an informative or educational tool for the general public. Students are expected to utilize text, animated text, graphics, audio, and animation within their application, choosing from tools like Flash or Director. The project involves both a multimedia application (in *.swf format on CD-ROM) and a project report. The report must include sections such as objectives, target users, concepts, storyboard, and references (using Harvard style). Assessment criteria include documentation (40%) and implementation (60%), evaluating factors like content, originality, animation, sound, technicality, and presentation. Students must adhere to academic integrity and plagiarism regulations. Planning is emphasized, and students can choose from various multimedia tools for development. The project contributes to the students' practical abilities to implement and document multimedia applications, and introduces students to the current technical issues in the area of multimedia.

B.SC (HONS) IN COMPUTING / ELECTRONIC COMMERCE / BUSINESS
MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
IN – COURSE ASSESSMENT
Intake :
Lecturer : Hamzah Mohd Kharir
Date assigned : 19th January 2015
Due date : 17th April 2015-Submission
13th April 2015-Presentation
1.0 THE PROJECT OVERVIEW
 Develop an interactive animated movie that contains specified title and story. The minimum
duration of the video is ONE minute. You are given the freedom of choosing the titles
specified in Section 4.0. The focus of this multimedia application is to help the general
public to be aware or to be educated about the current issue, or fields of interest you have
chosen. The animated movie that you are yet to develop is to be used as an informative or
educational tool. The scope and contents of the title chosen are to be entirely determined by
the students.
2.0 OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT:
 Develop the students’ practical ability to implement and document multimedia application.
 Introduce student to the current technical issues in the area of multimedia.
3.0 LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of this project, the students should be able to:
 Develop multimedia presentation relating to a specific topic using the multimedia tools.
 Distinguish the difference between effective and ineffective use of multimedia.
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 Have an impressive portfolio piece, and a thorough understanding of multimedia
fundamentals
4.0 PROJECT TITLE:
 List of project topics for you to choose are as follows:
Title
Albert Einstein Stephen Hawking The life of DaVincci
President Lincoln President Kennedy President George
Washington
Thomas Edinson Apollo 13 Political system in any
country
French Revolution Greatest Invention in
Malaysia
Prime Minister in any
country
Robot Terrorism Richest man in the world
About the great artist, Picasso Russian Revolution Story about police
Van Gogh Micheal Angelo Queen Elizabeth of England
Human cloning Any Fairy Tales The greatest artists in
Malaysia
William Shakespeare Nielson Mandela Story about diamond
The greatest literature of
England
Story about firemen Story about FBI
Living beings in the sea Living beings in the desert Great Philosopher in the
world
5.0 TYPE:
 Individual work
6.0 REGISTRATION
 You need to register the chosen titles with your lecturer, and get these approved. A proposal
form of the project chosen is to be handed to me two weeks from today
7.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
 Your application must have significant use of the following elements so that you get some
practice with them:
Element
1 Text and animated text
2 Graphic
3 Audio
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4 Animation
 All elements mentioned above might not be able to be covered in lecture before the submission
due date, therefore you must learn yourself first so that you can apply them on your application.
No doubt there will be further clarifications as the days progress!
8.0 DELIVERABLES:
 The documents (project report in printed form; Assignment 1) and Multimedia Application
(animated movie) in the form of a CD-ROM (assignment 2).
8.1 MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION IN CD FORM:
 The completed animated movie must be compiled into an (*.swf) executable file and burned
into a CD-ROM. Do not submit some other format like *.html, *.dir, etc.
 The CD-ROM should also consist of raw media files (e.g. *.jpg, *.gif, *.psd, .mov etc.) and all
Flash working files (*.fla).
 The running time of your movie should not less than 1 minutes
8.2 DOCUMENTS: PROJECT REPORT
 As part of your assessment, you will have to submit the project report in printed form which
include the followings:
 Table of contents
 Acknowledgement Section
 Objectives of your animated movie
 Targeted users’ background
 Targeted users’ requirements
 Concepts art and character design
 Abstract
 Application structure
 Storyboard
 Creative and unique features in your movie
 References (Use Harvard Naming Convention; Refer notes below)
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Note:
 You may source pictures and information from the Internet. If you have accessed the Internet,
reference the resources used carefully in your document.
 All references must be made using the Harvard Naming Convention as shown below:
The theory was first propounded in 1970 (Larsen, A.E. 1971), but since then has been refuted;
M.K. Larsen (1983) is among those most energetic in their opposition……….
List of references at the end of your document must be specified in the following format:
Larsen, A.E. 1971, A Guide to the Aquatic Science Literature, McGraw-Hill, London.
Larsen, M.K. 1983, British Medical Journal (Online), Available World Wide Web: URL:
http://libinfor.ume.maine.edu/acquatic.htm
(Accessed 19 November 1995)
Further information on other type of citation is available in Li, X. and Crane (1993), Electronic
Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information, Meckler, Westport.
 Total number of pages for the documents is in the range of 20 to 40 pages
9.0 PROJECT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 Criteria for assessment will be based on:
 Documentation (Assignment 1):
Criteria Marks
Allocated
1 Objectives 10
2 Target users’ background and their requirements 20
3 Concepts Art and character design 20
4 Storyboard (Inclusive of abstract, application structure and layout of
application)
30
5 Creative and unique features in your movie 15
6 Originality (Reflected from Referencing of materials and Summary of
what you have created or what effects have you made on multimedia
elements)
5
Total 100
 Implementation (Assignment 2):
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Criteria Marks
Allocated
1 Title and content:
 Implementation suitable for intended audience?
 Interesting?
 Unique?
 Clear?
 Originality
5
2 Level of originality and innovation of graphics:
 Amount of graphics self developed
 Amount of graphics extracted directly from external
source.
 Amount of graphics extracted from external source and
further innovated (like adding special effects added on the
graphics)
 Graphics quality
 Quality of effects and innovation
20
3 Animations:
 Amount of animations self developed
 Amount of animations extracted directly from external
source.
 Amount of animations extracted from external source and
further innovated (like adding special effects added on the
graphics)
 Depth and quality of animations
20
4 Sound:
 Sound effect used?
 Voice recorded?
 Music used?
 Sound quality
20
5 Technicality:
 Level of interactivity (full interactivity? Or merely click
and display)
 Special Effects done on the system
 Use of ActionScripts (ActionScript is strongly encouraged
to use. If you have done so, remember to put the full script
in your document. However, absent of ActionScript will
not deduct your marks)
 Full screen?
 Able to run smoothly?
20
6 System development (compliant with the documents e.g. storyboard
submitted earlier)
5
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7 Presentation:
 Professional style
 Good use of language
 Capability in answering questions addressed by lecturer
 Proper referencing and citations.
10
Total 100%
 Documentation contributes 40% and Implementation contributes 60% of the overall marks.
10.0 FRONT COVER OF PORJECT:
 All reports must be prepared with a front cover. A protective transparent plastic sheet can be
placed in front of the report to protect the front cover. The front cover should be presented with
the following details:
a) Names.
b) Intake code.
c) Subject.
d) Project Title.
e) Date Assigned (the date the report was handed out).
f) Date Completed (the date the report is due to be handed in).
11.0 PLANNING:
 You are advised to analyse your audience and survey the existing materials before starting out.
Then, brainstorm, flowchart your ideas to see the general flow and finally, develop. Planning
saves you a tot of heartache and headache later on.
12.0 MULTIMEDIA TOOLS
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 You have the options of developing the multimedia application using one of the following
multimedia tools for your project:
Element Tools
1 Text and animated text Win Word, Notepad
2 Graphic Editing Photoshop
3 Audio Any Sound editing tools like Audacity
4 Video (Optional) Windows Movie Maker
5 Animation Macromedia Suite (Flash, Director)
13.0 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
 You are expected to maintain the utmost level of academic integrity during the duration of the
course.
 Plagiarism is a serious offence and will be dealt with according to APIIT’s regulations on
plagiarism.
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