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Title: COM%20205%20Multimedia%20Applications


1
COM 205Multimedia Applications
  • St. Josephs College
  • Fall 2004

2
Chapter 3
  • Multimedia Skills and Training

3
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?

4
Multimedia Development Team
  • Project Manager
  • Multimedia Designer
  • Interface Designer
  • Writers
  • Video Specialist
  • Audio Specialist
  • Multimedia Programmer
  • Multimedia Producer for the Web

5
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

6
Multimedia Designer
  • Responsibilties
  • Overall content and structure
  • Prepares blueprint for project content, media,
    interaction
  • Sometime overlaps with Interface Designer
  • Coordinates team
  • A) Graphic Designers
  • B) Instructional Designers
  • C) Information Designers

7
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

8
Multimedia Designer
  • A) Graphic designer deals with visuals
  • Illustrators ( Freehand)
  • Animators ( Flash)
  • Image processing specialists ( Photoshop)

9
Multimedia Designer
  • Instructional Designers deal with subject
    matter
  • Clear and proper presentation
  • Knowledge of content

10
Multimedia Designer
  • Information Designers deal with contents and
    navigation
  • Structure content
  • Determine user feedback and pathways

11
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

12
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

13
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

14
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

15
Multimedia Programmer
  • Responsibilities
  • Integrates multimedia elements into seamless
    whole using programming language or authoring
    system (Authorware)
  • Coding displays to controlling devices
  • Background/skills
  • Multimedia languages (C, Java, Lingo)
  • HTML, VRML, XML
  • Ability to quickly learn new systems

16
Multimedia Producer for the Web
  • Responsibilities
  • Coordinates set of pages for the web
  • Background/skills
  • Knowledge of HTML, CGI scripts, Photoshop, etc.

17
Good Multimedia
  • Many multimedia systems are too passive- users
    click and watch
  • For fully interactive systems, designers need
    clear picture of what happens as user interacts
  • Adaptive systems modify themselves based on user
    input ( intelligent tutors)

18
Conclusion and Assignment
  • Team Building is essential!!!!
  • Assignment To determine desirable and
    undesirable characteristics of web pages
  • View and critique at least 5 web pages note
    their URLS
  • List features of at least 2 ( one good, one bad)
  • Begin to list general characteristics
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