Shantanu C Rao - Portfolio


	IIT Mumbai
	The 4 semesters that I spent at IIT were a game changer for me in my career. Here is the list of projects I worked during my tenure there. Will put in more content later as I ma still collecting and filtering my project data from IIT.
	Semester 1 and 2
	Semester 1 and 2 were same for all, where group activities took place in various subjects like design theory, Information design, representation techniques, Photography, Typography, Semantics and lot more.
	Semester 3 and 4
	Project1 This was a multimedia for edutainment. That was the word back then. This was targeted at the 10th Std students covering Physics as a subject. I tried to make it content rich and use the power of visual and animation design to explain the science. I used director which I was good at and did all the programming myself. I made a tangible deliverable at the end of the semester and presented it to the Jury. My scores are mentioned in the CV for reference

	Project 2 There were research topics floated and we were to pic up those and publish a research report at the end of the project. I picked up the "Graphic File format" in the computer domain. I covered the following topics in the report: What is a file format What are the 3 main fields where the graphic file formats are used Print media, Web or screen format, and multimedia Examples and attributes of file formats Impact on image quality Selecting appropriate format I also made a foldable quick reference guide for the same. Will add that later to the site.

	Project 3 This project was actually an internship at a real software firm. The job however was to design exhibition panels for an event in Germany where this firm was participating as a exhibitor. The duration was 1 month during the winter vacation and at the end of which we had to produce a report documenting all the work we had done in that month.

	Project 4
	This was the final project before the final jury. I picked up a subject of my own. This was the year 1999 and my topic was Online TV guide. Apart from the regular listing of the channels and the programs, I also had included channel animations, Program video thumbnails. In the feature list I also had considered about the reminders that a user can set and would have the options to receive those via e-mail, Pagers, later via cell phones.