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Unit 1: Multimedia



               •  Ensuring people and organizational skills.                                      notes
               •  Conveying information between the team and the client.
            Multimedia designer — This team consists of:

               •  Graphics designers, illustrators, animators, and image processing specialists, who deal with
                 visuals, thereby making the project appealing and aesthetic.

               •  Instructional designers, who make sure that the subject matter is presented clearly for the
                 target audience.

               •  Interface designers, who devise the navigational pathways and content maps.
               •  Information designers, who structure content, determine user pathways and feedback, and
                 select presentation media.

            An interface designer is responsible for:
               •  Creating a software device that organizes content. It allows users to access or modify content,
                 and presents that content on the screen.
               •  Building a user-friendly interface.
            A multimedia writer is responsible for:

               •  Creating characters, actions, point of view, and interactivity.
               •  Writing proposals and test screens.
               •  Scripting voice-overs and actors’ narrations.
            A video specialist needs to understand:

               •  The delivery of video files on CD, DVD, or the Web.
               •  How to shoot quality video?

               •  How to transfer the video footage to a computer?
               •  How to edit the footage down to a final product using digital non-linear editing system
                 (NLE)?

            An audio specialist is responsible for:
               •  Locating and selecting suitable music talent.
               •  Scheduling recording sessions.

               •  Digitizing and editing recorded material into computer files.
            A Multimedia programmer is also called a software engineer who:
               •  Integrates all the multimedia elements into a seamless project, using authoring systems or
                 programming language.
               •  Writes codes for the display of multimedia elements, and to control various peripheral
                 devices.
               •  Manages timings, transitions, and record keeping.
            Multimedia producer for the Web or Website producer:

               •  put together a coordinated set of pages for the Web.
               •  they also co-ordinate updates and changes.




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