An announcement from Professor Larry Engel: We’re pleased to announce that one of the films produced by students in the interdisciplinary class, “The Practice of Environmentalism: Science, Policy, and Communication” and its summer site visit to the Galapagos was accepted into the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. “La Pesca Vivencial” . The production was filmed […]
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Interactive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 4
This is the last step. You had a great idea and used what you learned about X-Code and Objective-C to build it. You’ve tested it extensively on the iPhone Simulator (one of the components of the iOS SDK) and now it’s time to test it on an actual device. Why, you might ask? There are […]
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So now that you know how to work with XCode and how to program in Objective-C. What’s next? Next you need to come up with a viable idea for an app. And that begs the question, how do you know if your idea is viable? That’s a tough question to answer. There are currently 350,000 […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 2.5
Having trouble with Objective-C? Yeah, so did I. Objective-C is a programming language developed by Apple for use in programming for the MacOS and iOS platforms. As you may have guessed, it’s based on C. You might find it helpful to take a few minutes to learn a bit about the C programming language. You […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 2
Ok, so now you’re an Apple Developer and you’ve got the SDK installed. Great. At least it was until you opened one of the applications in the SDK and realized you had no idea what to do next. Here’s what you can do next: learn how to use the iOS SDK to make iPhone apps. […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 1
So you want to build an iPhone app… Do you have an idea? Something people can’t possibly live without? Well, this is a good place to start. In this series of posts (iPhone App Development), I’ll go through all the major steps of how to develop your iPhone application. All this information also applies to […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: An Introduction
Over the past few years the amount of interactive media available has increased exponentially. Video games were only the beginning. Then there were smart phones which began supporting a HUGE variety of applications. Now a myriad of other media areas are beginning to break into interactivity. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp recently released an iPad application […]
Continue readingFrom the Fun Film Jobs Files: Foley Artist
SoundWorks Collection: Gary Hecker – Veteran Foley Artist from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.
Continue readingWere the Nazis First to Develop 3D Movies?
Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora is at the Berlin International Film Festival this week to talk about his planned 3D biopic about surrealist artist Salvador Dali. That film sounds quite interesting (Alan Cumming is set to star), but while discussing 3D in general, the director dropped a bigger bombshell: He has discovered two short, 3D propaganda […]
Continue readingAU Alum, Chris Noll aka Chris Wylde is Buddy Mignon
AU alumnus, Christopher Noll, now goes by the name of Chris Wylde. From 1994 to 1998 he attended American University in Washington, DC and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre – Performance. He starred in several plays and musicals as well as the improvisational comedy troupe “Mission: IMPROV-able”. He hosted his own late night talk […]
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