The document defines and describes various elements of multimedia. Multimedia combines text with graphics, animation, audio, video, and virtual reality to bring presentations to life. Graphics can include photos, charts and drawings. Animation is the appearance of motion from displaying a series of images. Audio includes music and speech, and common audio formats are listed. Video consists of moving images with sound, and MPEG is a popular compression standard. Virtual reality uses computers to simulate real or imagined 3D environments. The document also lists common file formats for graphics and provides homework instructions involving analyzing multimedia elements in an online presentation.

1. www.themegallery.com Company Logo

2. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
What is multimedia?
Next
 Multimedia refers to any application that
combine text with other media elements
 Graphics
 Animation
 Audio
 Video
 Virtual reality
Multimedia brings a presentation to life ,
increases the types of information available,
and makes the Internet more entertaining
place to explore.

3. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
Graphic formats used on the multimedia presentation:
Next
BMPBMP
GIF
(pronounced JIFF)
GIF
(pronounced JIFF)
JPEG
(pronounced JAY-peg)
JPEG
(pronounced JAY-peg)
PCXPCX
PNG
(pronounced ping)
PNG
(pronounced ping)
TIFFTIFF
 What is graphic?
Graphic is a digital representation of nontext
information such as a drawing, chart, or
photograph

4. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
What is animation?
Next
 Animation is the appearance of motion
created by displaying a series of still
images in sequence

5. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
What is audio?
Next
 Audio includes music, speech,
or any other sound
 The audio file formats that
can be inserted to any
multimedia project are
MP3, WAV, WMA (Windows
Media Audio), MPEG,
RealAudio, and QuickTime

6. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
What is video?
p. 2.22 Fig. 2-20 Next
 Consists of full-motion images with sound
played back at various speeds
 MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group)
is popular video compression
standard

7. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
What is virtual reality (VR)?
Next
 Virtual reality is the use of computers to
simulate real or imagined environment
 Appears as a three dimensional (3-D) space
 Used for games and many
practical applications

8. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
AUDIO
MULTIMEDIA
GRAPHIC
VIDEO
ANIMATION
TEXT
VIRTUAL
REALITY

9. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
Homework
1.Form a group of four.
2.Find one of the multimedia presentation in the
web site.
3.Download the presentation .
4.Discuss about the multimedia elements used
in the presentation.
5.Present in our next class.

10. www.themegallery.com Company Logo
Homework
1.Form a group of four.
2.Find one of the multimedia presentation in the
web site.
3.Download the presentation .
4.Discuss about the multimedia elements used
in the presentation.
5.Present in our next class.