QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
a combination of text, art, sound, animation, and video
Multimedia
Requires different design methods and technologies
• Requires different technologies to store, load and display on a device
• Effective in some areas of communication but perhaps not efficient in
communicating all messages
Implications (considerations) of different types of media
linear
Project that are not interactive
nonlinear
Projects where users are given navigational control
• Text
• Images
• Video
• Animation
• Audio
Forms of Media
Text
• Writing perspective, size,
• Writing perspective, size, shape and color Graphics Images
• Line Art
• Photo-realistic
• Documents (PDF)
• GIS Maps (Geographic Information Systems)
Video
• Stored
• Blu-ray Disc, DVD, QuickTime, MPEG-4
• Live Animation
, • Path animation
• Cel animation
Audio
• Speech
• Digitized voice
• Voice synthesis
• Phonemes of speech
• Voice recognition
1. Planning and Costing
2. Look and feel
3. Prototype or proof of concept
4. Designing and Producing
5. Testing
6. Delivering
Stages of a Project
• Most common form of communication
• Words or symbols
• Design objects using words with...
• Precise meaning
• Powerful meaning
Why is text so important?
How easily and comfortably a typeset can be read
Factors affecting _____:
- Size
- Background and foreground colors
- Style
- Leading
Legibility
-Factors affecting legibility of text:
Readability
ease with which language is understood