Multimedia

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Multimedia
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Before We Begin

• Artists Note for your webpage
• Artists objective Describe what your personal
  goals for your creative expression are. What you
  do hope to accomplish for your audience? What
  sort of reaction are you hoping to illicit? Is
  your web site humorous, informative, beautiful,
  or otherwise engaging? As the semester progresses
  feel free to update your objective as you develop
  your web site.

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Web as Multimedia
Give some examples of Multimedia on the Web

• Image
• Sound Voice, Music
• Animation
• Video
• Interactive Systems
• (user reaction/data changes webpage)

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Digitization

• What is Digitization?
• Before Digitization
• Examples
• Written Text
• Books, newspapers
• Television
• Moving images recorded onto film
• Radio
• Voice/music converted to radio waves
• Evolved separately and did not interact
• i.e. you could not send a television show through
  a newspaper ?

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Media Appliances

• What are some media appliances you have?
• Television?
• Phone?
• Computer?
• Any others?

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Interactivity

• Mass media. Is it interactive?
• What about old forms of communication?
• Town Crier (in lieu of the newspaper)
• Storytellers
• Theater
• Digital Revolution
• Personal Computers (1980s)
• WWW (1990s)

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Analog -gt Digital

• Analog
• Continuous
• Human Eye
• Traditional Camera
• Digital
• Stuff is represented as finite numbers
• Text
• Imagespixels
• Etc.

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Analog -gt Digital Conversion

• Example
• The photo of Ducky Chicken Finger on the right ?
• How is that image represented on this computer?
• How did it get this way?
• sampling

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File Size

• File Format how information is arranged and
  interpreted
• Images
• Dimensions
• Format
• What are some image formats?
• Sound
• Length
• Format
• What are some sound formats?
• Video
• Dimensions, Length
• Format
• What are some video formats?
• Bandwidth issues

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File Extensions

• How does file extension relate to file format?
• File extensions inform browsers how to handle a
  particular file (displaying and decompression)
• Renaming vs. Save As
• i.e. changing bork.gif to bork.jpg

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Guidelines for Web Content

• Dont get to fancyplugins can be irritating
• Be sensitive to user knowledge on pluginssome
  people may now know what a plugin is or how to
  install it
• Be sensitive to people with old browsers and
  lower resolutions
• Be sensitive to people with slower computers