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COM 205Multimedia Applications

• St. Josephs College
• Fall 2004

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Chapter 3

• Multimedia Skills and Training

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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?

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Multimedia Development Team

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

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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

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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

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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

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Multimedia Designer

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

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Multimedia Designer

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

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Multimedia Designer

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Multimedia Producer for the Web

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

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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)

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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