This document discusses multimedia systems and their components. It describes the typical components of multimedia like audio, video, animation, pictures and text. It then discusses common types of multimedia applications for entertainment, advertisements, training, education and business. It outlines the typical roles in a multimedia project team like project manager, graphic designer, programmer, script writer etc. It concludes with the key steps in designing a multimedia project, including brainstorming, storyboarding, prototyping, and media production.

1. Multimedia Systems
Computer Systems

2. Multimedia Systems
Multimedia Contents Development
 Components of Multimedia
 Types of Multimedia Applications
 Project Team Roles
 Summary of the Design Steps

3. Components of Multimedia:
1. Audio
2. Animation
3. Video
4. Static Pictures
5. Text

4. Audio
A signal, electrical representation of sound.

5. Animation
Is the process of making the illusion of motion and change by means of the rapid
display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other.

6. Video
Is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and
display of moving visual media.

7. Static Pictures
Is an artifact that depicts visual perception.

8. Text
It’s literally theory of any object that can be read.

9. Types of Multimedia Applications
Applications
of Multimedia
ENTERTAINMENT
ADVETISEMENTS
TRAINING
EDUCATION
BUSINESS

10. Types of Multimedia Applications
1. Education – the user allows to learn at their own pace.
2. Training – the learner allows to enhance their learning experience.
3. Entertainment – it includes movies, net gaming and concerts.
4. Advertisements – computer characters replaced the real world character in
the advertisement.
5. Business – it allows the users to manipulate the products.

11. Project Team Roles
1. Project Manager – responsible of the projects timeline and resources.
2. Graphic Designer – responsible for the look and feel of the project.
3. Programmer – responsible for the mechanics of the project.
4. Script Writer – responsible for the development of the characters and stories.
5. Second Designer – responsible of the original compositions, sound effects and
designs for the environment.
6. 3D/ 2D Animator – is responsible of developing and making animations.
7. Videographer – is responsible of editing and creating video output.

12. Brainstorming and Storyboarding
Flowchart and Paper Design
Prototype and User Testing
Media Production
Summary of the Design Steps

13. Summary of the Design Steps
1. Brainstorming and Storyboarding – determine who the target audience is.
a. Define Contents – clarification with the user to the objectives and the
knowledge requirement to achieve the objectives are essential to allow the
creation of the right content.
The following are defined when creating contents
o Objectives
o Use the medium that best conveys the information
o Use the multimedia as a supportive and not just for decoration
o Synchronize the multimedia with the text or picture
o Make the interface interactive

14. Summary of the Design Steps
b. Storyboard – simple serve the purpose of roughly illustrating a concept.
2. Flowchart and Paper Design – the concept of series and scenes.
a. Creating the flowchart
- to develop a hierarchy of information.
3. Prototype and User Testing
a. Video authoring
b. Multimedia authoring
c. Landscape generators
d. Character modelling
e. Audio editing

15. Summary of the Design Steps
4. Media Production
a. Building Blocks – defined as a series of related actions, happening one
after another.
b. Presenting Activity – most basic activity to display a single, non interactive
block of text, image or video sequence.
c. Controlling Activity – most basic variation of a one after the other
approach is the use of a selection structure based on menus.
d. Linear Presentations – allows the presentation to be synchronized.
e. Data- driven engine – interprets instructions from a file that defines what
is to occur at each stage of the presentation.

16. Summary of the Design Steps
f. Hierarchical menus – simplifies the menu structure down to two engine
programs presentation and menu.
g. Delivery of contents – actual production and the delivery of the media.

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