About
Interactive Multimedia focuses on designing digital environments in which end users can create content, not just navigate through content. This leads to a unique feeling of engagement. Interactive Multimedia encapsulates games and puzzles; tools and applications; artistic and experimental work; and simulations for education and entertainment for installations, desktop and mobile devices.
:: our program ::
The Sheridan Interactive Multimedia one year post grad college program in Oakville, Ontario, Canada (greater Toronto) has a mandate to train designers, programmers and managers in all three of these disciplines with an overall push towards creativity. Skills are learned to use the most current software such as Adobe Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere and audio video. Data is handled using PHP, ASP, MySQL and others.
Please enjoy the sample links and stories in this blog as well as industry tips and tutorials. Sheridan is at the forefront of technology so you are welcome to subscribe to this blog for inspiration and knowledge. We are always looking for the best of applicants which might be you – or a friend or colleague. Please tell them about the site and the opportunity to train for this exciting field.
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:: graduates ::
Through personal and live client projects, graduates will find themselves very comfortable as independent creator / producers or as members of creative, technical and marketing teams. Alumni of our program are producing interactive features and sites for Much Music, CBC Kids, Sympatico/MSN, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Halton Region, CreativePost, Trapeze, and Xenophile Media developing interactive television.
Hey just thought you and your readers would be interested in checking out our free online downloadable film site
The Portable Film Festival is reaching out for viewers to indulge in our online visual feast of short film, music video, documentary and animation content. Everyday a new film is featured on the site for the masses to view free of charge, and free to download for free onto a range of digital devices, whether iPod, 3G phone or PSP for your portable viewing pleasure. Be it the latest in animation, music video or full feature films, everything on the site is yours to create your own film festival with: view, download and take the best in online film with you, on your terms and on the go!
Our programming team curates the best in contemporary film and video for daily programming, in addition to the annual festival held every August that is judged by viewers along the categories of Short Film, First Hand Capture, Look at Me, Music Video and Get Animated, and Feature. Past winners have gone on to receive Oscar nominations, feature film funding and high level exposure, with the site achieving 300,000 visits annually from across the globe, connecting filmmakers with a mass festival audience.
The Portable Film Festival also curates content through online Showcases. Past Exhibitions have featured candid interviews with prominent film and music figures in Coffee and Cigarettes, stories off the old beaten track in Road Movie Showcase and the latest from Canadian cinema in Oh Canada.
Screening from October 27 is the Woof Wan-Bau Showcase featuring five of this eccentric London based director’s innovative music videos and short films. Each of these shorts are characterized by an otherworldliness, transporting audiences across the threshold into fantastic and virtual spaces, making the familiar strange and the strange familiar. A winner of four Cannes awards in the last six years, Wan-Bau is respected as one of the contemporary mavericks of music video. The works featured are exemplary of a truly eclectic style; Everyday items take on an uncanny quality as in “Friend of the Night”, streetlamps magically ascend into the starry sky as in “My Angel Rocks Back and Forth”; it’s images such as these that impress the senses with the beauty and magic of the everyday. The Woof Wan Bau showcase is not to be missed!
The Portable Film Festival works to democratize film for creators and viewers alike, so come check out http://www.portablefilmfestival.com for your free daily dose in the latest from the moving image and celebrate being portable!