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How long does it take for impressions? - Answer 7-15 seconds to make a good first
impression
4 minutes for someone to decide to go beyond first impression
Multimedia examples - Answer Everything you can hear or see; texts, books, pictures, music,
sounds, CDs, videos, DVDs, MP3 players iPods, records, films
Multimedia (technical) - Answer describes any application or technology that can be used to
present text, images, sound, animation, video
Earliest Drawings/Paintings by humans discovered in - Answer France
First permanent photograph was taken between - Answer 1820-1830
First motion picture was recorded between - Answer 1880-1890
First full length movie will synchronized dialogue (talkie) - Answer The Jazz Singer
One of the first full length movies to use colour was - Answer The Wizard of Oz
Predecessor to the internet - Answer Arpanet
Inventor of the World Wide Web - Answer Tim Berners Lee
First Graphical browser for the Worls Wide Web - Answer Mosaiac
First band to give a concert of the internet - Answer The Rolling Stones
First full length feature film that was completely computer generated - Answer Toy Story
Application that revolutionized/irritated the music industry in 1999 - Answer Napster
,Digital Cameras became fairly accessible and affordable to the public in ... - Answer 1996
1969: Arpanet - Answer Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
- first packet switching network and predecessor to the internet
-4 locations in 1969 - UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, University of Utah
- 1970 Eat coast
1991: World Wide Web - Answer Finished and officially up and running thanks to Tim
Berners-Lee
1993 Mosaic - Answer first graphical Web browser (web page with images by Marc
Andreessen, Erin Brina and Tim Clark
1998: Google search engine operates - Answer Thanks to Larry Page and Sergey Brin
1999 Napter - Answer download and share MP3s
2000 - Answer Integration of computer, memory storage, digital data, camcorders, MP3
players, iPods, speakers, telephones, HD tv, ITUNEs
3 multimedia applications that will grow into more than $100 billion industry - Answer 1.
Entertainment 15 billion
2. Publishing 7 billion
3. Education/training 7 billion
Multimedia Features: Interactivity - Answer user control over the application
- experience active rather than passive as with television
- Examples: clicking on links on the internet, online computer based exam, driving simulation
Hyperlinking - Answer Index allows for "jumping" around sections
Hyperlinking - Sequential - Answer Start at beginning and more to the end, books, movies,
videos
- HTML allows you to build hyperlinks to other webpages or locations on the same page
Computer Based Delivery - Answer CBM integrate the various media components and allow
interactivity
,- ex video games, web applications, CD Disks, info kiosks
Multimedia Categories and applications: Education - Answer Offering Instruction (CDs for
preschoolers, biology in virtual labs
Entertainment - Answer Largest category ( games, cds or websites, proprietary systems (x-
box or play staying, mp3 plays or ipods
Inform - Answer Interactive world atlas, 3D animation to provide information or illustrate
concepts
Business - Answer Delivering marketing applications and employee training on CD's and
internet (jobs, product lines, services)
Methods of Delivery: CD/DVD - Answer Access: view instantly by inserting into Drive
Ability to change content: Cannot change content, must recreate and redistribute
Method of Delivery: World Wide Web - Answer Access time: May encounter slow connection
speeds
Ability to Change content: easy to update material, new updates can be accessed instantly
Development Systems: - Answer systems used by multimedia developers to create
applications
User Systems: - Answer Systems used to playback multimedia applications
Multimedia Developer Requires: - Answer Sound Card, Video Card, Microphone, Speakers,
Camera, DVD drives,
Text Attributes: Dual Role: VISUAL - Answer Representation of the message
GRAPHICAL - Answer Element
Text in Multimedia Varies on: The type of application - Answer Educational, entertainment,
business
Audience: - Answer Children, teens, adults, elderly, ESL (less text for children vs adults)
, Text Attributes - Answer colour, size, font type
Design/layout/placement of text - Answer bullets, alignment, text in groups
Font type - Answer Arial, Times new roman...etc
Serif - Answer Tails, Script, Body paragraphs (times, Courier new, centre schoolbook,
palatino)
- tails = easier to read on paper
Sans-Serif - Answer No tails, block-oriented, Headings, Titles (arial, Verdana, Helvetica,
Comic)
- easier to read paragraphs on websites, short headings
Style - Answer bold, regular, italics
Kerning - Answer space between pairs of letters, measurement expressed in "em"
(emphasis) - negative,0, positive values
- helps align multiple lines
Tracking - Answer spacing between all the letters horizontally
Text Leading - Answer Vertical space between lines of text, measured in positive, 0, or
negative points
- lower value means closer together, higher value means further apart
Size - Answer points vs pixels
Colour - Answer red, black, blue etc.
Special Effect - Answer Underline, shadows, superscript, subscript
Text Size - Pixel - Answer .ppi
- WEB
-# of pixels per inch of monitor display