•Multimedia: implies the integration of
multiple forms of media. This includes text, graphics, audio and video.
•Types of Multimedia Presentation:
•Linear Multimedia-Linear active content progresses without
any navigation control for the viewer.
•Non-linear Multimedia:
Non
Linear content offers user interactivity to control progress as used with a
computer game or used in self-paced computer based training. Non-linear content
is also known as hypermedia content.
•Linear
Multimedia
The
users sit back and watches the presentation . The presentation normally plays
from the start to end or even loops continually to present the information. A
movie is a common type of linear multimedia.
•Non-Linear Multimedia:
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The users control the delivery of elements – to control the what and when.
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Users have the ability to move around or follow different path through the
information presentation.
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Advantage: complex domain of information can be presented.
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Disadvantage: users might lost in the massive “information highway”.
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Useful for information archive (encyclopedia), education, training and
entertainment
•Features of Multimedia.
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Multimedia presentations
l It may be viewed in person on stage,
projected, transmitted, or played locally with a media player.
lA broadcast may be a live or recorded
multimedia presentation.
l Broadcasts and recordings can be either
analog or digital electronic media technology.
l Digital online multimedia may be
downloaded or streamed. Streaming multimedia may be live or on- demand
•Features of Multimedia
• Multimedia games and simulations may be
used in a physical environment with special effects, with multiple users in an
online network, or locally with an offline computer, game system, or simulator
•Applications of Multimedia
Creative industries-
Creative industries use multimedia for a
variety of purposes ranging from fine arts, to entertainment, to commercial
art, to journalism, to media and software services provided for any of the
industries listed below.
An
individual multimedia designer may cover the spectrum throughout their career.
Request
for their skills range from technical, to analytical and to creative
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