3.6+Multimedia+and+Digital+Media

=3.6 Multimedia and Digital Media=

• Design guidelines for creating multimedia/digital media • Design methods: for example, site map, storyboard
 * //Theoretical concepts //**

• Primary and secondary data • Multimedia file formats: for example, text formats, audio formats, video formats, presentation formats, image/graphics formats • Policies, copyright, citing sources, Creative Commons, licensing and watermarking • Digital rights management (DRM) • Folder and file management: importance of file and folder naming, appropriate folder structures • Tutorials: for example, help pages, online manuals • Templates and wizards, online and provided with software • Importing and exporting data • Integrating software applications and online tools: for example, embedded videos, web-based database • Text-processing software • Formatting: for example, page layout, fonts, headers and footers • File formats: for example, PDF, RTF, TXT • Typography Graphics, images and animations <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Software types: for example, albums, animated, 3D, bitmapped, vector, photo editing, photo casting, simulation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Bit depth, colour depth (grayscale, shades of gray, millions of colours) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Layers, grouping, divisions, alignment <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Resolution, pixels, dots per inch (dpi) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• File formats: for example, JPG, GIF, TIF <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Computer-generated imagery (CGI) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Audio-editing software, podcasts <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Digital audio: for example, MIDI (musical instrument digital interface), MP3 (MPEG-1 audio layer 3), MP4 (MPEG-4 part 14), WAV (waveform audio format) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• File formats: for example, MP3, MP4, WAV <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Video-editing software, vidcasts and special effects (for example, morphing, transitions) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Digital video: for example, AVI (audio video interleave), MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), video CODECs (coder-decoders) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• File formats: for example, AVI, MOV <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Software types to house and display the multimedia components: for example, word processing, desktop publishing, presentations, web pages <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Differences in files (for example, graphics, images, audio, video) for print and online versions <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Inserting and manipulating objects (graphics, sound or video files) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Tables: cell merge, borders, cell padding, cell spacing, nested tables <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Layers <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Links: relative and absolute, internal and external, for example, anchors, pop-ups <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Referencing and reviewing: for example, spellchecker, thesaurus, outliners, word count <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Inline and floating graphics <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Applications and online tools used for creating and making available interactive multimedia, games, presentations, slideshows and websites <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Use of scripting in creating web pages (for example, HTML, JavaScript, URL links to online media) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">• Integration of online tools
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 * //<span style="font-family: 'MyriadPro-BoldIt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Product development //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'MyriadPro-BoldIt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Components //**
 * Text **
 * Audio **
 * Video **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Integrating the components **
 * // Generic techniques //**
 * Word processing and desktop publishing (DTP) **
 * Interactive multimedia, slideshows and websites **