Adobe Photoshop 7'0 Design Professional

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Chapter Summary

• OVERVIEW

• Introduction
• Basic stages of a multimedia project
• Planning and Costing
• Design and Production
• Testing
• Delivery

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Introduction

• INTRODUCTION

• Multimedia development is project-based process
• Well-developed plan for multimedia product will
  save
• Time
• Money
• Multiple modifications
• Rule of thumb for development is 80 planning and
  20 production

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 1

1. Planning and Costing
2. Design and Production
3. Testing
4. Delivery
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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 2

• 1. Planning and Costing
• The needs of a project are analyzed by outlining
  its messages and objectives.
• To determine objectives/purposes
• How will users be using this product?
• What will users gain from this product?
• What types of features will be most useful to the
  users?

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 2

• 1. Planning and Costing (contd)
• Target audience
• Consider the audience
• Tailor product to meet users needs and wants
• Users like to feel in control give users
  opportunity to choose or create their own
  experience
• A plan that outlines the required multimedia
  expertise is prepared.

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 2

• 1. Planning and Costing (contd)
• A graphic template, the structure, and
  organizational/navigational system are developed.
• A time estimate, a manpower estimate and a budget
  are prepared.
• Time, money, and people are the three elements
  that can vary in project estimates.

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• 1. Planning and Costing (contd)
• Gantt charts are used to illustrate project
  schedules.
• Microsoft Project includes many project
  management tools.

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 3

• 2. Design and production
• Ensures your product effectively achieves purpose
  for intended audience
• Shared vision client and multimedia team clarify
  the purpose and identify target audience
• The planned tasks are performed to create a
  finished product.

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 3

• 2. Design and production (contd)
• The product is revised, based on the continuous
  feedback received from the client.
• Designing the structure
• Storyboard
• Organizational/Navigation Map
• Designing the user interface (will be discussed
  in Ch.3)
• GUI (Graphical User Interface)

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Storyboards

• CONCEPT 3

• Diagrams of the layout of each page
• Describe the content and sequence of each page
• Specify how text, graphics, animation, multimedia
  elements are positioned on each screen
• Design changes here save money on development

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Storyboards

• CONCEPT 3

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Explore Organizational Structure

• CONCEPT 3

• Organizational structure the way in which
  information is organized
• Hierarchical
• Nonlinear
• Linear
• Data-base driven

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Hierarchical Organizational Structure

• CONCEPT 3

• Top-down approach
• Sets and subsets of information form a hierarchy
• Information is chunked down
• Can be broad and shallow or deep and narrow

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Hierarchical Organizational Structure

• CONCEPT 3

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Nonlinear Organizational Structure

• CONCEPT 3

• No prescribed or sequential path
• Links fromone discretepiece of informationto
  another

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Linear Organizational Structure

• CONCEPT 3

• Organizes information sequentially
• Traditional method of navigation with a set
  sequence
• Examples training sites, online slide shows

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Database-Driven Organizational Structure

• CONCEPT 3

• Increasingly popular
• Large volume of short bits of information
• Sites that use internal search engines use
  databases
• Common examples are library, research, and
  e-commerce sites

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Database-Driven Organizational Structure

• CONCEPT 3

Data
Containers
Any web site that includes an internal search
engine uses a database-driven organizational
structure.
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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 4

• 3. Testing
• It is important to test and review a project to
  ensure that
• It is bug-free, accurate, and operationally and
  visually on target.
• The client's requirements have been met.
• The reputation of the developer/company is not
  damaged by a premature or erroneous release.

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 4

• 3. Testing (contd)
• Software developers use alpha testing and beta
  testing to describe the level of product
  development.
• Final release or final version is usually called
  the gold master.

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 4

• 3. Testing (contd)
• Alpha testing
• An alpha release is the first working draft of a
  project and is only for internal circulation.
• Alpha testing is usually done in-house by team
  members.
• Alpha releases are expected to have problems or
  to be incomplete.

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 4

• 3. Testing (contd)
• Beta testing
• Beta testing is done with a wider array of
  testers.
• Beta testers should be representative of real
  users and who were not involved with the actual
  production.
• Beta level bugs are typically less virulent than
  alpha bugs.
• Managing beta test feedback is critical.

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Basic stages of a multimedia project

• CONCEPT 5

• 4. Delivery
• The final project is packaged and delivered to
  the end user.
• Delivering the project on a CD/DVD-ROM is the
  most popular method among multimedia developers.
• Multimedia can also be delivered on the World
  Wide Web by hosting the pages on a Web server.

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Reference

• Part of this slide set is referenced, prepared
  or/and extracted from the following book
• Multimedia For The Web Revealed, Calleen Coorough
  Jim Shuiman, Thomson Learning, 2006,
  ISBN1-4188-3953-1
• This set of slides is for teaching purpose only.