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    CHAPTER 7

    MULTIMEDIA SKILLS
    AND
    STEPS TO MAKE
    MULTIMEDIA PROJECT

    ECE551
    MURIZAH KASSIM

    Outline
    Skills and Background
    Multimedia Development Team
    7 Team

    Steps to make multimedia


    Planning
    Design
    Testing

    Deliver

    Skills and Background


    1. What are some of the

    skills needed to develop


    good multimedia ?
    2. What is the responsibility

    of each member of the


    software team?
    3. What

    background/training/skill
    is required of each?

    Multimedia Development Team


    Multimedia
    Producer
    for the
    WEB

    Multimedia
    Programmer

    Project
    Manager

    Multimedia
    Development
    Team

    Video
    Specialist
    Audio
    Specialist

    Multimedia
    Designer

    Interface
    Designer
    Writers

    Project Manager
    Responsibilities
    Overall project
    Day to day operations and budget
    Put together good core team
    Maintain the big picture the vision

    Background/skills
    Understand hardware & software
    Communication skills
    Good people skills- a good listener

    Multimedia Designer
    Background/skills
    Ability to analyze content structurally and match it with effective
    presentation
    Expert with different media types
    Ability to look at information from different points of view
    Interpersonal skills
    Understand resources- both technological and human
    Solid organizational skills, attention to detail
    Responsibilities
    Overall content and structure
    Prepares blueprint for project: content, media interaction
    Sometime overlaps with Interface Designer
    Coordinates team
    Graphic Designers
    Instructional Designers
    Information Designers

    Multimedia Designer: Task


    Graphic designer
    Deals with visuals
    Illustrators ( freehand)
    Animators ( flash)

    Image processing specialists ( photoshop)

    Instructional Designers
    Deal with subject matter
    Clear and proper presentation
    Knowledge of content

    Information Designers
    Deal with contents and navigation
    Structure content
    Determine user feedback and pathways

    Interface Designer
    Responsibilities
    Provides access to media and
    control to people who use it
    Makes interface transparent
    to users ( effective use of
    windows, icons, backgrounds,
    controls, etc.)
    Background/skills
    Familiar with different
    multimedia interfaces
    Knows authoring system, user
    testing
    Basic drawing skills

    Writers
    Responsibilities
    Create character, action, point of view, interactivity
    Write proposals, script actors narration, write text screen
    (content writers)
    Background/skills
    Background in marketing
    Ability to work within tight deadlines

    Video Specialist
    Responsibilities
    Coordinate videographers, sound
    technicians, lighting designers, set designers,
    script supervisors, production assistants,
    actors

    Background/skills
    Skilled with QuickTime or MS Video for
    editing
    Macromedia Premiere for special effects

    Audio Specialist
    Responsibilities
    Locating and selecting suitable music and talent
    Scheduling recording sessions
    Digitizing, editing recorded materials

    Background/skills
    Skilled in studio recording
    Fluency in MIDI
    Experience with sequencing software

    Forensic Audio

    Multimedia Programmer
    Responsibilities
    Integrates multimedia elements into seamless whole using
    programming language or authoring system (Author ware)
    Coding displays to controlling devices
    Background/skills
    Multimedia languages (C++, Java, Lingo)
    HTML, VRML, XML
    Ability to quickly learn new systems

    Multimedia Producer for the Web


    Responsibilities
    Coordinates set of pages for the web
    Background/skills
    Knowledge of HTML, CGI scripts, Photoshop, etc.

    Multimedia Producer for the Web

    Teamwork is so important that it is virtually


    impossible for you to reach the heights of your
    capabilities or make the money that you want
    without becoming very good at it.
    ~ Brian Tracy

    Steps To Make Multimedia Project

    Plan

    Design

    Testing

    Deliver

    Planning
    1. Develop an idea
    Determine the scope of a multimedia project
    Who is your intended audience?
    What are the goals and objectives of the

    project?
    Analyze the content

    Planning
    2. Identify skills and resources
    What multimedia elements will best deliver your

    message?
    What hardware is available?
    What multimedia software is available to you?
    What are your capabilities and skills with both the
    software and the hardware?
    Alone or in team? ~ people
    Time.
    Money.

    Planning
    3. Estimate Time And Cost
    Provide Gantt Chart.
    Estimate the total time required for each task.
    Deal with your client.
    Estimate the costs of your multimedia project by analyzing the

    tasks that is comprises and the people who build it.

    Microsoft Project Plan

    Microsoft Project Budget Plan

    Planning
    4. Provide storyboard
    A storyboard is a sketch of how to

    organize a story and a list of its


    contents.
    A storyboard helps you
    Define the parameters of a story

    within available resources and time


    Organize and focus a story
    Figure out what medium to use for
    each part of the story

    Planning
    5. Develop a prototype
    Provide working model by using your

    hardware and software.


    Building screen mock-ups and a human
    interface of menus and button clicks.
    A proof-of-concept
    Purpose: test the initial implementation of
    your idea and improve on it based upon
    test results.

    Prototype Demo on Charm Science


    http://www.visimaker.com/VMP/img/multimedia/nlu/movie.html

    Design
    1. Designing the structure
    Method used to link the screens
    together
    2. Designing the user interface
    How to design GUI.

    Design Structure: Linear


    Linear
    User navigates sequentially
    Moving from one page to the next.
    The simplest structure
    No independence to move freely in between the

    portions.
    User may be given the option to move one step
    forward or backward.

    Designing Structure: Hierarchical


    Hierarchical
    Analogous to the branches of a tree.
    To move from top to bottom
    One must move down one branch at a time with more branches
    being available the lower to go.
    The structure is shaped by some natural logic.
    Mapping the first main link branches in tern branch out further.
    Integrity is maintained by limiting the users movements within
    various branches. Users have to come to the main branch to move
    to the others branch.
    Very popular among edutainment multimedia.

    Hierarchical

    Designing- Structure: Nonlinear


    Nonlinear
    Users navigate freely through the content of the project
    Unbound by predetermined routes.

    Designing- Structure Composite


    Composite
    Users may navigate non-linearly, but are occasionally constrained
    to linear presentations.

    Designing User Interface


    Approach
    Neatly executed
    contrast
    Simple and clean
    screen
    Eye-grabbers
    Shadows and drop
    shadows in various
    shades
    Gradients
    Reversed graphics
    to emphasize

    Avoid
    Clashes of color
    Busy screen
    Using a picture with a

    lot of contrast in color or


    brightness as a
    background
    Too many words

    Testing
    Test your programs to make sure that they meet the

    objectives of your project.


    Meet the needs of your client or end user.

    Testing - Type
    Alpha Testing
    A Test relatively in the early
    stage of the development phase.
    The main interest is to review the
    concept, format, user interface
    and the layout
    The tester may be selected
    users or among the teams to
    confirm that your product works.
    First phase of testing includes
    unit testing, component testing,
    and system testing.
    Compress files, edit for
    misspelled words and unclear
    directions, broken links, and
    sync audio and video.
    Make sure download times are
    acceptable.

    Beta Testing
    Second phase testing in which
    a sampling of the intended
    audience tries the product out.
    Pre-release testing
    The testing group should be
    represented by the real users
    and should not include the
    people who have been involved
    in the project.
    The feedbacks from these
    testers are very important
    where the errors or problems
    reported by the beta testers
    have to include the detail
    description of the problem.

    Delivery
    Final stage
    Know the medium you want to use.
    Web site: can just upload to the servers and adjust some

    settings then it is ready


    Installation guide and process
    Documentation step-by- step procedure
    Troubleshooting guide

    Delivery
    Installer
    Provide well-written
    documentation about the
    installation process.
    File archives
    Self-extracting archives

    Packaging

    Medium
    On compact disc technology
    CD-R
    DVD

    On world wide web/online

    Summary

    Exercise
    1. Describe the special skills required to make good
    2.
    3.
    4.

    5.
    6.

    mobile apps.
    By using an appropriate tool, provide a Gantt Chart to
    develop an automotive company website.
    Discuss depth navigation structure and surface
    navigation structure.
    The test release of a product with a version number as
    the developers continue to refine the product and
    approach a final version is called_________________.
    List two mediums of delivery multimedia applications.
    Design a hierarchical chart for your project 3

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