Multimedia is a content that uses a combination of different media types like text, audio, images, animation, video and interactive content. It is presented using processing devices like computers and electronics. Multimedia has evolved from early uses in newspapers to include radio, television and now digital media. It has many applications in education, business, entertainment and public spaces. The key components of multimedia are text, graphics, audio, video and animation. While multimedia provides advantages like interactive learning, some disadvantages are the costs to produce and maintain multimedia systems and content.

1. MULTIMEDIA
PRESENTED BY : PARAMPREET KAUR
MAMC 1ST SEMESTER

2. MULTIMEDIA
• Introduction
• Basic concepts of multimedia
• History or Evolution of multimedia
• Importance of multimedia
• Components of Multimedia
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION
• Multimedia gives life to Information.
• Multimedia is a content that uses a combination of
different content forms such as text, audio, images,
animation, video and interactive content.
• Multimedia can be recorded and played or displayed
with the help of processing device such as computerized
and electronic devices.

4. Basic concepts of
multimedia
• The multimedia concept is based on a common
denominator in the field of computer, it can be brought
together from the field of videography, audiography,
scriptography.
• Computer technologies form the basis for sustaining the
process whereby multimedia applications are created.
• Applications are further used to construct products like
good quality video, three-dimension images, sonds and
text.

5. History or Evolution
• Newspaper were perhaps the first mass communication
medium to employ multimedia , they used mostly text,
graphics, and images.
• In 1895, gugliemo marconi sent his first wireless radio
transmission at italy, In 1901 he detected radio waves
beamed across the atlantics.

6. History or Evolution
• Initially invented for telegraph, radio is now major
medium for audio broadcasting.
• Television was the new multimedia for 20th century. It
brings the video and has since changed the world of
mass communication

7. Importance of Multimedia
• There are a number of fields where multimedia could be
of use. Examples are
• - Business
• - Education
• - Entertainment
• - Home
• - Public places

8. EDUCATON
• E-Learning/ Distance Learning
• Information Searching
• simulations

9. ENTERTAINMENT
• Games ( Leisure/Educational )
• Movies
• Online videos

10. HOME
• Television
• Satellite TV
• SMS Service

11. PUBLIC PLACES
• Smart cards
• Information panels

12. COMPONENTS OF
MULTIMEDIA
• TEXT: It is the primary component of multimedia. Most of
the information can be presented with the help of text. We
can emphasis the text by using fonts, colors, styles.
• GRAPHICS : Digital representations like photographs,
drawings are known as graphics. It can be used with text
medim.
• Audio: It is one of the most important component of
multimedia. It can be music, speech or any ther sound.

13. COMPONENTS OF
MULTIMEDIA
• VIDEO: The effective medium of presenting information
is video. It presents the moving images. It displays the
sequence of pictures at the speed of 15-30 frames per
second.
• ANIMATION: The animation medium presents the
sequence of still images of artwork at a rapid speed.

14. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
• ADVANTAGES: It helps students and teachers to learn
and teach easily.
• It can be used to spread knowledge all over the world in
low cost.
• It is very interactive.
• DISADVANTAGES: It is expensive to produce
multimedia systems.
• Expensive to produce multimedia content.
• It needs well trained manpower to create and use it.

15. CONCLUSION
• The field of educational technology is making rapid
advances in this digital age.
• Multimedia gives educators and instructional designers
an important weapon to draw digital content.
• Multimedia is growing and is the futre of the human
manlind.