This document defines and describes multimedia. Multimedia is the integration of multiple forms of media, including audio, video, graphics, images, and text. The basic elements of multimedia are text, graphics, video, and audio. Text refers to characters used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs. Graphics are digital representations of non-text information like drawings or photos. Video shows photographic images in motion. Audio includes music, speech, or any other sound. Multimedia has many applications and uses such as for advertisements, art, education, entertainment, engineering, medicine, mathematics, and business.
3. •As the name implies multimedia is the integration
of multiple forms of media.
• Computer information can be represented through
audio, video, and animation in addition to traditional
media (i.e., text, graphics/drawings, images).
What is multimedia?
5. ❑ GRAPHICS
•A digital representation of non-text
information, such as a drawing, chart
or photograph.
6. ❑TEXT
• Characters that are used to create words,
sentences, and paragraphs.
• We give input through
-Keyboard
-Mouse
7. ❑ VIDEO
• Photographic images that are played back
at speeds of 15 to 30 frames a second and
the provide the appearance of full motion.
8. ❑AUDIO
• Music, speech or any other sound.
•In computers, audio is the sound system that
comes with a computer.
• Users to receive sound in real-time for
listening to music or video conference.
