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Course Code: CAP323 Course Title: MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS

DOA: 19/1/11 DOS:

30/1/11

Homework Title / No. : ____1____________________________Course Code : _CAP323____

Course Instructor: _Sh. Dhiraj Soni ___________ Course Tutor (if applicable) : ____________

Students Roll No.__RD3801A08______________ Section No. : _D3801__________________

Declaration:I declare that this assignment is my individual work. I have not copied from any other students work or

from any other source except where due acknowledgment is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part

been written for me by another person.

Students Signature :

__Himanshu Gautam___

Evaluators comments:

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Marks obtained : ___________ out of ______________________

PART A

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1. You are marketing Director for an advertisement company. You are considering

using Multimedia to market your companys growth. Put together an outline

detailing the benefits and draw backs of using a CD-ROM presentation, a Multimedia

website, or a Television advertisement.

Answer:-

Benefits: -

No need of an Internet connection.

Being on a CD-ROM, it is portable and can be easily distributed.

No problem with slow download speeds.

Large files such as music and compression free images can be used.

Help expand your corporate Identity beyond your website & business card.

Animation, audio, video we can apply on a multimedia web site.

TV gives you an opportunity to be creative and attach a personality to your business,which can be particularly effective for small businesses that rely on repeat customers. TV reaches a much larger audience than local newspapers and radio stations, and it

does so during a short period of time.

Draw Backs: -

Difficulty in updating. Once CD-Roms have been produced it is not possible to update

them. This may mean that they can become dated relatively quickly.

Can be expensive.

multimedia websites lies in its planning, production and maintenance stages.

Establishing multimedia websites are costly and time-consuming.

TV does have some disadvantages. Barring late night spots on your local cable

television network, no other advertising medium is as likely to eat up your budget as

quickly as TV will.

2. Discuss why the Multimedia skill set is different from other project skill sets. How

Multimedia Skills affect the overall performance of the project.

Answer:- the ideal candidate has solid experience in interface design, product prototyping and

marketing communication, knowledge of image manipulation is critical as well as proven skills

in Lingo scripting and the use of digital time based authoring tools. We seek a team player with

excellent communication skills and grace under pressure.

- Must have experience designing large information and entertainment systems.

- Must have experience creating system flows and program architectures.

- Must have solid organizational skills and attention to detail.

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Multimedia skills also affect the overall project performance. if the multimedia skills applied

perfectly the project performance will be better.

3. Team work is considered good for any project and its effectiveness. Why are

Multimedia projects most frequently performed by teams? Whose responsibility is it

to ensure that the team operates effectively?

Answer:- Successful multimedia projects begin with selecting team players. But selection is

only the beginning of a team-building process that must continue through a projects duration.

Team building refers to activities that help a group and its members function at optimum levels

of performance by creating a work culture that incorporates the styles of its members. You

should encourage communication styles that are fluid and inclusive, and you should develop

models for decision making that respect individual talents, expertise and personalities. This

isnt easy but repeated studies have shown that workgroup managers with well-developed team

skills are more successful than managers who dive headlong into projects without attention to

tram dynamics. Although its usually a project manager who initiates team building, all team

members should recognize their role, gentle collaboration is a key element of successful

projects.

PART B

4. Create a document implementing both hypertext and hypermedia. Discuss the

differences among multimedia, interactive Multimedia, hypertext and hypermedia

in context to this.

Answer:-The terms "hypermedia" and "hypertext" were coined by Ted Nelson in the mid-1960sas new, non-static ways of disseminating information.The use of hyperlinks, regular text, audio

and video to provide an interactive, multimedia presentation....Hypermedia, a term derived

from hypertext, extends the notion of the hypertext link to include links among any set of

multimedia.A hypertext document basically consists of TOPICS and LINKS connecting them. A

TOPIC can be any piece of information that can be described in digital form (text, image,

sound, video). The LINK reflects the nature of the relationship between two topics like, for

example, explanation, refutation, illustration or clarification.

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Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content

processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live

performance. Multimedia (as an adjective) also describes electronic media devices used to

store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine

art; by including audio, for example, it has a broader scope. The term "rich media" is

synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia can be considered one particularmultimedia application. Multimedia is defined as the combination of different media elements

such as text, pictures, sound and movie etc...

Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems

which respond to the users actions by presenting content such as text, graphics, animation,

video, audio etc. Interactive multimedia is related to the concepts interaction design, new

media, interactivity, human computer interaction, cyberculture, digital culture, and includes

specific cases such as, for example, interactive television, interactive narrative, interactive

advertising, algorithmic art, videogames, social media, ambient intelligence, virtual reality and

augmented reality. In interactive multimedia, the user or operator is able to interact with the

computer directly. (Eg: computer games, interactive websites, multimedia presentations or

interactive Cd's etc..)

5. Quality of presentation is very important. What is the role of testing and

feedback stages in improving the quality of presentation and what effect does it

have on the performance.

Answer: - Helps improve application performance, perform better capacity planning, and

develop more scalable applications. Extends performance and scalability testing of Rational

Performance Tester to Citrix Presentation Server. Emulates and tests the performance and

scalability of applications deployed through Citrix-based server environments. Reduces cost and

improves test system scalability and performance by reusing test scenarios that emulate

hundreds or thousands of users. Feedback to instructors and preventing foreseeable problems

dealing with content availability, non-participants and/or technical issues.

6. Discuss in detail the elements that are used to design a multimedia project.? Use

any example and illustrate with examples.

Answer: -TextText is perhaps the most fundamental element of any multimedia project. Students can use

applications such as AppleWorks and HyperStudio compose and edit their own text. Text-

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basedinformation can also be gathered from resource CDs and the Internet. Applications such as

Photoshop LE can be used to add visual effects to text to create a more appealing presentation.

Graphics

Graphics can be incorporated into a multimedia project in the form of photographs or designs.

Graphic images can be imported from a variety of resources such as the Internet, a digital

camera, a scanner, or resource CDs such as Art Mania 12,000. Original graphic designs can be

created with applications such as HyperStudio, MovieWorks, and Photoshop LE.

Sound

Sound can be added to a multimedia presentation from a variety of sources. Original sounds can

be recorded using a microphone and programs such as HyperStudio, MovieWorks, orSmartSound. These applications, as well as QuickTime Pro, can also be used to import sounds

from an audio CD or the Internet. Sound resource files that can be used in multimedia projects

are also included on the HyperStudio, MovieWorks, and SmartSound CDs.

Video

Moving images or video can be incorporated into a multimedia project as QuickTime movies.

QuickTime Pro, HyperStudio, and MovieWorks can be used with a camcorder or VCR to create

and edit QuickTime movies. These programs can also import movies from the Internet and from

resource CDs such as The Archives of History. Movies that can depict a 360-degree panorama or

a movable object can also be incorporated into a multimedia project. These virtual reality

movies, often referred to as QuickTime VR movies, can be created with QuickTime VR Authoring

Studiofor playback and be incorporated into programs such as HyperStudio, MovieWorks, and

QuickTime Pro.

Animation

Graphics that contain movement are often referred to as animation. Animation files can be

downloaded from the Internet in the form of animated GIF files and viewed with QuickTime

Pro, HyperStudio, and MovieWorks. HyperStudio and MovieWorks can also be used to create and

edit both frame and path animation.