1. Multimedia Systems and Designs
Comp 240

2. What is Multimedia? Multimedia is anything you can hear or see
A combination of moving and still pictures, sound, music and words, especially in computers of entertainment
Describes any application or technology that uses any combination of:
Text
Images
Sounds
Animation
Video
Definition
Technical Definition

3. Media
media are means by which we can communicate through the five senses:
Smell
Sight/Seeing
Sound/Hearing
Touch/Feeling
Taste
Types of Media
Texts, Books, Pictures, Music, Sounds, CDs, Videos, DVDs, MP3 Players, iPods, Records, Films/Movies, etc.
Senses
Media

4. Multimedia Requirement
User systems are systems used to play back multimedia applications like browser, speakers, plugin players, etc.
Development systems are used by multimedia developers to create an application
User System
Development Systems

5. Systems Requirement
Sound card, video car, microphone, headphones/speakers, camera/camcorder, fast processors, large storage capacity, DVD burner/player, etc.
Software required to develop the applications
Image creation
Website creation
Video creation
Animation
Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements

6. Text Select your text based on your audience Children (what age group)
Teens
Young Adults
Older People
Select the text based on the type of application
Educational
Entertainment
Business
Audience
Application

7. Sample Designs
Who are the Audience?

8. Here is some text with different attributes
Working on Texts
Here is some text with different attributes
Here are texts with different
Placement
Layout
Design
Text Attributes
Design/Layout/
Placement

9. Text Attributes Font Type Style Kerning Tracking Leading
Lucida Sans, Comic Sans, Script MT Bold, Arial
Regular, Bold, Italics
Spaces between adjacent cha r a cters
Adjusting the distance between all the letters
Vertical spaces between lines of text
Text Attributes
Examples

10. Underline, embossed, superscript, subscript Size Color Special Effects
8,10,12,16,18,24,28,32, 72
Red, Blue, Green, Black
Underline, embossed, superscript, subscript
Size
Color
Special Effects
Text Attributes
Examples

11. Points and Pixels
Pixel is the smallest discrete component of an image on a monitor
Points are a print unit of measure (Word Processing)
72 points = 1 inch
1 point = 1/72 points
Pixels
Points

12. Familiarize Yourself with the Different Texts