Welcome to the Multimedia website for students at Box Elder High School. My goal is to provide all assignments online to create a paperless classroom. If you finish an assignment, you can come online and get information to begin the next.

Multimedia is a fun and exciting area that was implemented into the Business curriculum at Box Elder High school in 2000. In Multimedia-A, students learn the basic tools of a bitmap editor (Adobe Photoshop) to create and edit images and graphics. They learn how to use a vector based program (Adobe Illustrator) to manipulate text on specified paths. 2D animation is taught using Macromedia's Flash so students will learn a time-based environment. Students are also introduced to an authoring software (Tribeworks iShell) to pull all media together into an interactive project.

Multimedia-B teaches students how to work with an audio program (Cool Edit 2000) to create custom sounds and music to create a 30-second radio commercial, a 3D animation program (Cinema 4D) to build models and wireframe objects and apply skin, lighting, and animation to them and render them as Quicktime movies. Students learn how to use a video editing program (Adobe Premiere) to add motion and video effects to pictures and movie clips then put the movie to music and render it as a movie file. This class is a project-based course and a lot of fun.

The Advanced Multimedia Production A & B courses teach how to implement all of the above programs by building individual and team projects. These projects are submitted to the Utah Multimedia Arts Festival in April of each year. Students who attend this festival have the opportunity to see what is happening in multimedia in post-secondary institutions, and listen to industry speakers to hear and see new and inovative approaches to multimedia design & development in business and industry.

The main focus of the last class (Adv Prod-B) is to create the senior video and produce it on a DVD to sell to the student body at the end of the school year. This is one of the most exciting activites the students look forward to each year.