Advance Multimedia & Video Course

Course Description

Semester 1: Desktop Designing and Imaging

The course offers comprehensive training in tool technologies that are critical to a successful career in multimedia. Knowledge of graphics and graphics tools will provide you with a plethora of creative possibilities to showcase your abilities and potential as a graphic artist.

Visual elements such as line art, photographs, drawings, graphs used in spreadsheets and images used in CD-ROMs help students in visualizing and conceptualizing illustrated image projections on digital formats. The software packages you will learn during this semester will help you to develop a clear understanding of design concepts and application, texture, design and image editing.

Software packages you will learn include:

• Corel Draw

• Corel Paint

• Photo Shop

• Image Ready

• Scanning Under PhotoShop

In addition to tools training, the course provides a holistic introduction to graphics theory and applications to boost your independent creativity. Learn how to use line art and effects when crafting digital art. Graphics is the backbone to animation, web and video in addition to all multimedia disciplines. The course provides a blended approach to both theory and practice to prepare you for exciting careers in digital multimedia designing.

Semester 2: 2D and 3D Animation

Caba's comprehensive course in 2D and 3D animation is designed not only to help you grasp the concepts behind animation but also build live applications using animation. Cartoons and the animation technologies that create them have become industry standards for communication with both the young and the old. Learn frame-by-frame animation using digital writing instruments. 3D animation training at Caba focuses on realistic animation and the depiction of virtual reality in three dimensions. You will also learn how to create and embed special effects and digitally replicate events in 3D. Learn how to artistically and persuasively recreate experiential reality such as space travel, inter-stellar dynamics and super terrestrial action through 3D. We also provide instruction in using the command line. Software tools and technologies you will learn include:

• Adobe Flash with cartooning

• AutoDesk 3D Studio Max

Through live projects and assignments, you will also learn how to create:

• 2D Animation Concepts

• 2D Interactive Animation

• Cell Animation

• Animation for Gaming

• 3D Product Modeling

• 3D Architecture Modeling

• 3D human Modeling

• 3D Special Effects

• 3D Animation

Semester 3: Digital Sound and Video Editing

Digital audio and special audio effects are truly inseparable from the wide gamut of multimedia animation. It is sound and fury that signifies everything in today's digital age. Learn how to create, edit, manipulate and innovate with digital audio in our industry-focused course on digital audio by receiving qualifying instruction from veterans of the multimedia industry. Tools training in this course involves the following software solutions:

• Adobe Premiere

• Sound Forge

• After Effects

• Combustion

• Elastic Reality

The course also serves as a launching pad in which the instruction and training you have received in semesters 3 and semester 4 in graphics and animation merge with digital audio production and editing to provide you with a well rounded skills set to independently apply your knowledge to live projects in real time. Learn how to title and sub-title video footage as well as how to create and trigger flame effects. We will also teach you how to eliminate rough shots and merge all the various elements and components of digital multimedia into a cohesive whole. The news channels are currently using these knowledge assets in a big way today thus adding to your marketability and career potential.

The course teaches you how to create a new dimension to reality through digital sound and special effects in which your imagination and creativity know no bounds. It prepares you for robust and lucrative careers in post production and sound editing with major industry segments such as broadcast television, ad film making, motion pictures, digital audio recording, audio publishing, media houses and many other related industries where demand for industry professionals is on the rise constantly.

Semester 4: Project and Portfolio

Students enrolled in professional courses are typically evaluated during job interviews on the basis of their portfolio and project work. With a view to recognizing this key element in the pedagogical process, Caba has constituted a fully functional internship program in which students receive direct industry exposure by working as an intern. We help you organize both your online and offline live projects into an impressive portfolio. The end-semester project is your platform to showcase and even show off all the cutting-edge training you have received from Caba in a controlled and instructor-led environment.

Course Outcomes

Caba Innovatives Multimedia Institute is one of India's first multimedia training and certification institutes. It has been serving the industry since 1994. Our 15-month master's diploma program is an industry-recognized qualification and our most popular course with hundreds of graduates serving all industry segments and verticals including print, broadcast and digital media, software and production houses.

When you graduate from one of our diploma programs, chances are high that there is a Caba graduate and alumni waiting to conduct a job interview with you on behalf of the employer. The course content which we have expertly researched and included in our curriculum is not only specific and relevant but also responsive to industry needs.

The Master's Diploma in Multimedia, Animation and Advertising provides a minimum of five different career tracks:

• Graphic Designing for a complete range of industry segments

• Multimedia Animation

• Post-Production (both audio and video)

As the job market continues to become more demanding and competitive, It has become necessary to acquire advanced-level working knowledge of all the various aspects and focus areas within multimedia so that you can qualify for jobs that require you to multi-task and perform different functions within multimedia. Please call us or use our handy contact form to get in touch with us for more information. Enrollment is currently open for the 2009-10 academic year so please get in touch with Caba at your earliest convenience for exciting careers in multimedia.