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Chapter 07-Making Multimedia

The document discusses the development of multimedia projects including the stages of planning, designing, testing and delivering. It also outlines the roles and responsibilities of team members required for a multimedia project.

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Chapter 07-Making Multimedia

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Topic 07:

Development of Multimedia Project

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Overview

• Stages of multimedia project


• Members of a multimedia team
• Roles and responsibilities in a multimedia
team

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The Stages of a Multimedia Project

Designing
Planning
& Testing Delivering
& Costing
Producing

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Stages of multimedia project

1. Planning & costing


-plan out writing skills, graphic art, music, video, and other
multimedia expertise required

-develop creative look & feel (what user see on screen and
how they interact with it)

-structure, navigational system

-estimate time, budget

-create prototype-simple, working example to demo whether


idea is feasible

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Stages of multimedia project

2. Designing & producing


• perform planned task to create finished product
• many feedback cycles with client
• FOUR common structures in designing/organizing
multimedia project. (refer end of this notes)
3. Testing
• to make sure objectives met
• work on intended delivery platforms
• meet client needs

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Stages of multimedia project

4. Delivering
-package, deliver to end user
-follow up with tweaks, repair, upgrades

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Requirements of multimedia project

You need hardware, software, and good Intangible skill


to make multimedia. The intangible skills are:
1. Creativity
Develop through truly understand the development media
and target audience. Knowing existing literature helps, but
practice make perfect.
2. Organization
Plan rationally the usage of skills, time, budget, tools, and
resources you will need for a project.
3. Communication
Talk and listen to Multimedia Development Teams, clients and
audience.

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Members of a Multimedia
Development Team

• Team of skilled individuals is required


to create a good multimedia project.
• Team building: activities that help
a group and its members function at optimal
levels.
• Multimedia skillset: diverse range of skills
required for a project

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Members of a Multimedia Team
(continued)

• A multimedia team:
– Project manager
– Multimedia designer
– Interface designer
– Writer
– Video specialist
– Audio specialist
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– Multimedia programmer
– Producer for the Web
– Computer programmers

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Roles and Responsibilities
in a Multimedia Team

• Project manager:
– overall development, implementation
– day-to-day operations
– design
– management
– Understanding strengths, limitations of hardware,
software
– people skills
– organizational skills
– Middleman between team and client
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Roles and Responsibilities
in a Multimedia Team (continued)

• Multimedia designer – This team consists of:


– Graphics designers, illustrators, animators, image
processing specialists
– deal with visuals
– make project appealing, aesthetic
– Instructional designers
– subject matter presented clearly for target
audience

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Roles and Responsibilities
in a Multimedia Team (continued)

• Multimedia designer - This team consists of (continued):


– Interface designers
– devise navigational pathways, content maps
– Creating software device that organizes content,
allows users to access or modify content, and
presents that content on screen
– Build user-friendly interface
– Information designers
– structure content
– determine user pathways and feedback
– Select presentation media
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Roles and Responsibilities
in a Multimedia Team (continued)

• multimedia writer:
– Creating characters, actions, point of view,
interactivity
– Writing proposals, test screens
– Scripting voice-overs and actors' narrations

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Roles and Responsibilities
in a Multimedia Team (continued)

• video specialist:
– delivery of video files on DVD, Web
– How to shoot quality video
– How to transfer video footage to computer
– How to edit footage down to a final product
using a digital nonlinear editing system (NLE)

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Roles and Responsibilities
in a Multimedia Team (continued)

• audio specialist:
– Locating, selecting suitable music talent
– Scheduling recording sessions
– Digitizing, editing recorded material into computer
files

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Roles and Responsibilities
in a Multimedia Team (continued)

• multimedia programmer (software engineer):


– Integrates all the multimedia elements into a
seamless project, using authoring systems or
a programming language.
– Writes codes for the display of multimedia
elements, and to control various peripheral
devices.
– Manages timings, transitions, and record keeping.

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Roles and Responsibilities
in a Multimedia Team (continued)

• Multimedia producer for the Web:


– Web site producers put together a coordinated set
of pages for the Web.
– They also co-ordinate updates and changes.

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The Structure of Multimedia Project

A multimedia project is an organization of text,


graphic, sound, and video elements. The FOUR
organizing structures commonly used in multimedia
projects are:
• Linear
• Non-Linear
• Hierarchical
• Composite

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The FOUR organizing structures of
Multimedia Projects

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Summary

• The diverse skills required to create a


multimedia project are called the
multimedia skill set.
• Team building refers to activities that help a
group and its members function at optimal
levels of performance.
• Roles and responsibilities are assigned to
each team member in a multimedia project.
• The common four structure of multimedia
projects

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