Many of the tools used to created and delivered digital media products are digital tools. Digital tools are rather new tools for media people. It was only 5 to 10 years ago that we began editing video on a computer. Web pages have only been popular for about 10 years. These new tools have brought about a revolution in the way that products are created and delivered. The computer is the main tools of people creating digital media, but there is also digital cameras, digital tapes, CD-ROM's, scanners, printers, and others.
The Computer is
the main tool for creating digital media. The computer uses digital
data to process information for the creation of media. The computer
uses "digital"- binary code to process data.
This binary code is a series of 1 and 0 that are processed mathematically
by the computer to represent images, text, sound, video, etc.
Note. The Video display card seem to be the most impiortant part for the new Adobe suite. Make ssure to have a video card that 256MB or more if you want to use the latest Adobe Suite.
Purpose: Discover
the types of computers that are needed to create Digital Media.
In addition, how much the computer and parts cost. This assignment is to search computer manufactures to find a good computer
for Digital Media. It can be a dream computer.
Due: May 9
Requirements: e-mail instructor with
a quote "price"of a computer that would be good to
produce digital media. Make sure to send to jrascov2@yahoo.com
Steps:
Find a company "this
could be a local company within your community" that allows
for custom build computers. Some Big name companies that sell
computers on the Internet are: Apple
Computers Dell
Computers HP
Computers
Choose the custom
configuration section
It can be a dream computer. Yes I have had some students send me $12,000
Change and alter
different configuration to
see how much the different parts of computer cost.
E-mail instructor
with results
When you customize a computer. You choose different parts and the price usually changes. Choose parts like different Processors, RAM, Harddrive, Etc.
