Multimedia presentation

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Ralph Allen SchoolGCSE Short course

• Multimedia presentation
• About multimedia

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Multimedia the beginning?

• First multimedia experience is though to be the
  Chinese Pi Ying Xi or leather-silhouette show or
  shadow play, which came into existence almost a
  thousand years ago
• Puppeteers controlled models which were lit by
  fire
• As well as the moving shadows, there was music
  and story telling

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What is multimedia?

• Media test, images, sound, video/animation
• Term Multi-Media was used during the 1970's to
  describe theater-based film and slide-show
  experience
• Now shortened to just the word "multimedia
• Literally means many media

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Multimedia is everywhere!

• DVD menus
• MMS multimedia mobile phone messaging
• Interactive computer programs learning,
  informing, gaming
• Interactive web sites
• Interactive television

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Characteristics of multimedia

• Menus
• Icons to hyperlink select or play media
• Media players video stop/start/rewind
• Combination icon opens new page and plays a
  sound and starts some kind of transition

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Summary - multimedia