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Multimedia Literacy
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Learning Objectives
Understand how multimedia is transforming the entertainment industry by moving from passive to interactive art forms
Recognize how multimedia techniques are being used to create cinematic special effects
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3. Learning Objectives (cont.)
Question the ethics of digital cinema
Understand how realistic and violent video arcade games have become
Recognize how virtual reality is making interactive environments more immersing and persuasive
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Overview
Cinema
Video Games
Virtual Reality
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Cinema
Multimedia computers are used to create realistic special effects in movies or even produce complete movies
Watching a movie, although multimedia computers have been used to produce a movie, is not a multimedia experience unless you can interact with the movie
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Cinema - Morphing
One image is transformed into another in a seamless, uninterrupted segment
Morphing software combines photographic realism with freedom of artist-controlled creativity
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7. Cinema - Superimposition
Process of laying one image over the other
One image will be aligned over the other and a third image will be created
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Cinema - Animation
Sequence of computer created still images shown in rapid succession
Produces the illusion of motion
Some movies are completely computer generated
Toy Story and Toy Story 2
Antz
Shrek
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9. Cinema – Digital Recasting
Ability to cast classic actors with actors of today by
Classic films are digitized
Classic actors are extracted from their original environment
These actors are then colorized and if needed, modified
Actors are now mixed into a digital video showing current actors and events
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Video Games
Video games are very realistic by using
Digital audio
Actual photographs
Digitized characters
Laser input devices
3-D mice
Mass market video game hits are unfortunately often violent and/or offensive
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Interactive Movies
Are movies that let the user influence how the story unfolds
Often real actors appear through superimposition
Screens are 3-D photorealistic worlds
3-D graphic produced with Straylight’s
PhotoVR technology
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Virtual Reality
The use of a computer to immerse the user into a simulated experience so authentic it seems real
Needs special hardware
Visual displays
Tracking devices
Mobility devices
3-D eyewear and infrared transmitter
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More Virtual Reality
Stereoscopic images produced by CrystalEyes
Image changes according to position of your head
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