AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA FORMATS

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AUDIOVISUALMEDIAFORMATS

• Library 180
• Spring 2003
• Louise Dibble

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CONTENT

• Uses For Materials
• Visual Material
• Audio Material
• Audio Visual Material
• Equipment
• Projector Types
• Digital Media Formats

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USES FOR AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

• Art
• Music
• Language
• Drama

• Literature
• History
• Social Sciences
• Pure Applied Science

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VISUAL FORMATS

• Drawings
• Maps
• Photographs
• Graphs
• Charts
• Models

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AUDIO FORMATS

• Records
• Compact Discs
• Cassette Tapes

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AUDIO VISUAL FORMATS

• Films
• Video Tapes
• Compact Discs
• Digital Video Discs

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EQUIPTMENT

• Televisions VCR Players
• Computers
• Chalkboards Whiteboards
• Various Projectors with Screens
• Cassette Video Recorders

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PROJECTOR TYPES

• Filmstrip/Slide contains a lens system which
  focuses
• an image from a filmstrip/slide to a
  viewing screen

• Opaque uses light reflection to create an image
• of any non transparent object

• Overhead produces an image on a screen by
• transmitting light through a transparent
  medium

• LCD Liquid Crystal Display - uses liquid crystal
  to
• display an image of what appears on a computer
  screen

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DIGITAL MEDIA FORMATS

• MPEG-Moving Picture Experts Group used for video
  compression and file formats
• MP3-used for audio file compression
• JPEG-Joint Photographic Experts
  works best on photographs and natural
  artwork
• GIF-Graphics Interchange Format
  works best on black white and a few
  distinct colors
• BMP-Bitmap Graphics
  a windows format used by
  scanners and paintbrush

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Resources

• Gates, Jean Key. Guide to the Use Of Libraries
  and Information Sources. New York McGraw-Hill,
  1994.
• Audiovisual Services. /units/av
• Kevin Hughs HyperMedia tutorial