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Chapter 7
- 1. Design & Development of Digital Media
- 2. Project Stages Intangibles Multimedia Skills Hardware Software Authoring Systems
- 3. Overview • Stagesof a multimedia project • What You Need: The Intangibles • What You Need: Hardware • What You Need: Software • What You Need: Authoring Systems • Multimedia Teams
- 4. Stages of aMultimedia Project • Planning and costing – Project needs identified – Project plan created – Graphic look and feel developed, navigation system developed – Budget and time estimate prepared – Prototype (proof of concept) is developed
- 5. Stages of aMultimedia Project • Designing and producing – Product plan carried out – Product revised based on stakeholder feedback
- 6. • Testing ensuresproduct: – Meets the project objectives – Works on the proposed delivery platforms – Meets the client requirements. • The final project is packaged and delivered to the end user Stages of a Multimedia Project
- 7. Project Stages Intangibles Multimedia Skills Hardware Software Authoring Systems
- 8. What You Need:The Intangibles • Creativity – Knowledge of hardware and software is required for creativity in multimedia
- 9. What You Need:The Intangibles • Organization – Required to develop an outline that details the required skills, time, budget, tools, and resources – Required to manage media assets – Required to create a standardized file-naming procedure
- 10. What You Need:The Intangibles • Communication – Communication among the workgroup and client is essential to the efficient and accurate completion of your project. – Use quality equipment and software for stable and fast networking of the workgroup.
- 11. Project Stages Intangibles Multimedia Skills Hardware Software Authoring Systems
- 12. Members of aMultimedia Team A multimedia team consists of the following: Project Manager Interface Designer Instrl Designer Multi-media Designer Programmer Audio Specialist Video Specialist Web Producer Writer Graphic Designer Animator QA Specialist
- 13. Members of aMultimedia Team • A team of skilled individuals is required to create a good multimedia project. • Team building refers to activities that help a group and its members function at optimal levels. • The diverse range of skills required for a project is called the multimedia skillset.
- 14. What You Need:Multimedia Skills • The team – Project managers oversee the entire project. – Multimedia designers ensure that the project is visually pleasing and friendly. – Interface designers create software that lets the user access or modify the content. – Writers create character, action, and interactivity.
- 15. What You Need:Multimedia Skills • The team (continued) – Video specialists shoot, edit, and prepare footage for delivery on DVD or the Web. – Audio specialists select music and talent, schedule recording sessions, and digitize recorded material. – Multimedia programmers integrate all the elements of the project using an authoring system or programming language. – Producers of multimedia for the Web coordinate the creation and changes of web pages.
- 16. Project Stages Intangibles Multimedia Skills Hardware Software Authoring Systems
- 17. What You Need:Hardware Mac or Windows?
- 18. What You Need:Hardware • Historically, multimedia was developed on Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems workstations • Testing must occur on all target platforms
- 19. What You Need:Hardware • Windows vs. Macintosh – Windows operating system runs on computers built by a variety of manufacturers – The Apple OS runs on computers built by Apple
- 20. What You Need:Hardware • Networking Macs and PCs: – Local area networks (LANs) connect computers that are close to each other • Ethernet is the most common networking technology • Client/server software allows computers to communicate
- 21. What You Need:Hardware • Networking Macs and PCs: – Wide area networks (WANs) connect computers over a diverse geographical area – Used by large corporations – Expensive to install and maintain • Internet service providers (ISPs) connect computers to the internet via a WAN
- 22. What You Need:Hardware • Connections – Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) – Universal Serial Bus (USB) – FireWire (IEEE 1394) – Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
- 23. What You Need:Hardware IDE: • Connections are also known as Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) • These are usually internal devices such as hard drives, CD-ROM drives, and DVD-ROM drives Image from Wikepedia article on Advanced Technology Attachments
- 24. What You Need:Hardware USB: • A standard for connecting devices to the computer using the plug-and-play system • Uses a single cable to connect 127 USB peripherals to a single PC Image: http://www.usbcables.com/assets/images/white-usb-extension-cable-A-TO-A.jpg
- 25. What You Need:Hardware FireWire: • Introduced by Apple in the 1980s • Good for high-bandwidth serial data transfer (digital video) • Can connect multiple computers and peripheral devices (peer-to-peer) http://www.eachcable.com/UploadFiles/20091214152250547.jpg
- 26. What You Need:Hardware SCSI: • Connects internal and external peripheral equipment and devices • Is preferred for real-time video editing, network servers, and situations that require mirroring http://files.cablewholesale.com/hires/10n3-141.jpg
- 27. What You Need:Hardware Memory and storage devices • Required for multimedia projects • Depend on the project's content and scope. • Random access memory (RAM) • Enables simultaneous use of many applications • Read-only memory (ROM) • Non-volatile – boots up computer
- 28. What You Need:Hardware Memory and storage devices • Hard disks • Flash drives (USB) • CD-ROM – good for finished multimedia projects • CD-RW can be completely erased • CD-RW recorder can rewrite 700 mb of data 1000 times • DVD - optical disc technology used to distribute multimedia projects • Blue-Ray – used for high def television, mass storage
- 29. What You Need:Hardware Input devices • An optical character recognition (OCR) device • Quick Response (QR) codes • Voice recognition systems • Microphones and cables • Digital cameras • Scanners
- 30. What You Need:Hardware Output devices • External stereo speakers • External monitors • Projectors • Color printers http://muhammadalijannah.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/output-device.jpg
- 31. Project Stages Intangibles Multimedia Skills Hardware Software Authoring Systems
- 32. Text editing andword processing tools • Word processors such as Microsoft Word and WordPerfect • OpenOffice is a free, downloadable word processing program What You Need: Software
- 33. What You Need:Software OCR software • Converts bitmapped characters into ASCII text • Makes use of probability and expert system algorithms • Is very accurate and saves time and effort Image from: http://gadgetsgo.com/images/P/Topscan-ocr-optical-characer-recognition-software-document-PR-01.jpg
- 34. What You Need:Software Painting tools allow you to create and modify bitmap images • PhotoShop, Fireworks, Sumopaint, Pxlr http://0.tqn.com/d/webclipart/1/0/n/p/4/Image-for-file-types3.png
- 35. What You Need:Software Drawing tools allow you to create and modify vector graphics (Illustrator, Inkscape) • Vector graphics reduce download time and reduce scaling problems with web graphics http://0.tqn.com/d/webclipart/1/0/n/p/4/Image-for-file-types3.png
- 36. What You Need:Software • Painting and drawing software features include: – An intuitive graphical user interface – Scalable dimensions – Multiple undo capability – Scalable text font support – Support for third-party special effect plug-ins – Layering capability
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- 38. What You Need:Software • Painting and drawing software features include (continued) – Painting features such as smoothing coarse-edged objects into the background with anti-aliasing.
- 39. What You Need:Software • 3-D modeling tools allow rendering of 3-D graphics – VectorWorks, AutoDesk Maya, Inkscape, and 3D Studio Max – Many applications allow you to export and save moving images as QuickTime or AVI animation files – Take a long time to render
- 40. Example: Inkscape Interface http://en.dev.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.47-photorealism.png
- 41. What You Need:Software 3-D modeling tools allow rendering of objects in a three-dimensional perspective
- 42. What You Need:Software • 3-D modeling software features include: – Good color and palette management – Multiple dimension windows and unlimited cameras – Lathe and extrude features – Ability to drag and drop primitive shapes, sculpt organic objects – Color and texture mapping
- 43. What You Need:Software • Image-editing tools – Are specialized and powerful tools for enhancing and retouching existing bitmapped images – Many painting and drawing programs also serve as image editors – Features include conversion of image-data types and file formats, masking features, employment of virtual memory scheme, etc. – Support third-party plug-ins
- 44. What You Need:Software • Sound-editing tools – Enables the user to see music as a waveform as well as hear sound – This is done by drawing a representation of sound in fine increments
- 45. What You Need:Software • Animation, video, and digital movie tools – Animation is a sequence of bitmapped graphic scenes or frames, rapidly played back. – Animations can be made within some authoring systems by moving objects or sprites to simulate motion. – Moviemaking tools take advantage of QuickTime and AVI formats to create, edit, and present digitized motion video segments.
- 46. What You Need:Software • Helpful accessories – Screen-capture software enables the user to move bitmapped images by placing them on the clipboard. – Format converters are useful for projects where the source material originates on different platforms.
- 47. Project Stages Intangibles Multimedia Skills Hardware Software Authoring Systems
- 48. What You Need:Authoring Systems Provide: • a framework for organizing and editing the elements of a multimedia project • an integrated environment for combining the content and functions of a project • A means for creating, editing, and importing data
- 49. What You Need:Authoring Systems • Helpful ways to get started: – Use pre-made templates, wizards, and styles to save time on page setup – Improve document appearance with tables, bulleted and numbered lists, and symbols
- 50. What You Need:Authoring Systems • Making instant multimedia – The scope of your project determines the appropriate production tool – Modern office productivity software can perform many simple multimedia tasks – Most modern PCs have some multimedia creation tools built in
- 51. What You Need:Authoring Systems Most word processing programs allow you to include various image formats, movies, and digitized sounds (including voice annotations).
- 52. What You Need:Authoring Systems Spreadsheets can include embedded objects made with other applications.
- 53. What You Need:Authoring Systems A FileMaker Pro employee database can include image and sound resources.
- 54. What You Need:Authoring Systems Microsoft PowerPoint provides multimedia linking and embedding features.
- 55. What You Need:Authoring Systems Types of authoring systems • Card- and page-based authoring tools • Icon- and object-based authoring tools • Time-based authoring tools
- 56. What You Need:Authoring Systems • Objects – Authoring tools generally treat multimedia elements as objects. – Objects exist in a hierarchical order of parent and child relationships. – Each object is assigned properties and modifiers. – On receiving messages, objects perform tasks depending on the properties and modifiers.
- 57. What You Need:Authoring Systems • Choosing an authoring tool – Editing and organizing features – Programming features – Interactivity features – Performance tuning and playback features – Delivery, cross-platform, and Internet playability features
- 58. What You Need:Authoring Systems • Cross-platform and Internet-playability features – It is important to use tools that facilitate easy transfer across platforms. – Authoring systems provide a means for converting their output to be delivered within the context of HTML or DHTML.