Sunday, 30 June 2013

Work placement progress

I've been on work placement with Digilogue for the past three weeks. My role is a varied supporting role, covering the majority of modules studied during the Higher Diploma in Creative Multimedia Programming. Digilogue is a web development company specialising in, but not limited to, educational services. I have had the chance to work on web development and multimedia projects. Below is the list of what I've done so far:

  • Video and sound editing with Sony Vegas
    • Video editing
    • Greenscreening - making use of Chroma Keying
    • Audio editing
    • Visual effects
  • Web development using Joomla! content management system
    • Creating articles, menus and categories
    • Changing the language of a website
    • Uploading images and files
    • Publishing articles
    • Creating and publishing Twitter modules
    • Creating restrictions on certain categories/articles, to be accessed through logging in
  • Microsoft Paint/Adobe Photoshop
    • Manipulating images for web publication
  • Animoto
    • Created animated presentation, importing images and sound for use at property auction
  • Articulate/Powerpoint
    • Imported sound to Powerpoint presentation
    • Created dynamic presentation, added logos, and image and information on the presenter, to be used for online training course
  • Moodle
    • Added page to Moodle modules so that Articulate presentations could be accessed from the server
    • Added links to Vimeo videos (which I had previously uploaded for this purpose)
  • Wirecast
    • Inserted images and graphics to webcasting programme
    • Assisted with webcast, adding information on current bids and withdrawals of properties as they happened
    • Assisted in broadcasting this over the web to be seen by interested parties through the Galway Advertiser website
  • Paypal
    • Added PayPal button to website with specific settings and headings relevant to customers of this particular site
  • Technical writing
    • Created simple-to-follow instructions for customers to create Paypal buttons without assistance
    • Created content for Digilogue website
    • Created blog posts for Digilogue website
  • Sound editing
    • Transferred audio from cassette to MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats using Audacity
    • Cut audio into short tracks to be included in a HTML5 audio player
  • HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
    • Created audio player for above audio files using the MooTools JavaScript library
We've covered quite a lot so far, and a lot of it has been new. I'm learning a lot and it's a great environment to work in; everybody is very willing to help. Next week, I am expecting to do some SEO work, and possibly help with some web development work, as well as completing work on the audio player - the CSS needs to be altered slightly.

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