Uses and features of multimedia products & Linear Interactive

Linear As a example of linear multimedia product I will use PowerPoint about old mule. Use/purpose Features Audience Advantages Disadvantages Comment It’s purpose is to educate and tell people a story about old mule that was fighting very hard to stay alive and he never gave up This Product is very simple and straightforward, It’s easy to find next parts of the story and understand what author tries to tell us. That presentation has in my opinion ugly Word Arts and very simple images, probably from the internet, but it does it’s work. There’s one animation included in this multimedia product which will help younger audience to develop their imagination. The audience in my opinion is range of 6-10 years old kids that are still learning how to survive in our world. This story might be very helpful for them to select their own lifestyle. Biggest advantage of this product is that it is very simple, co young humans can understand everything that author is trying to tell them. Next advantage that I can see is that author has put some images, that are going to help young people in imagining the story in their mind. First disadvantage that I can see in this multimedia product is that images are not accurately cut and fit into this slideshow and whole product looks underdeveloped. Next disadvantage that I found in this product is that titles are not removed from the top of each slide and whole design is very dark, that may make reading a bit more difficult for the audience. In my opinion this slideshow is working for it’s purpose very well, but author could do it much better than now. I think that this multimedia products is ugly because of inaccurately cut and fit images and also very dark background. If the target audience is, as I presumed, 6-10 years old kids, then it may be way too dark for them as young people should see everything in bright colours what helps them develop their imagination.

Interactive As a example of Interactive multimedia product I’m going to use game: “Grand Theft Auto IV” Use/purpose Features Audience Advantages Disadvantages Comment This product’s purpose is to entertain. This game has very high quality, professional and outstanding high resolution textures, which are supposed to look similar to what we can see in real live. The story presented in this multimedia product is interesting and gives a player a lot of fun during the game. Audio was recorded separately and then added to the code of that game to make it sound as realistic as it’s possible. The audience is any person over 18 that looks for some fun. It gives us lots of hours of fun game and interesting story. Graphics is on very high reality level. Sounds are very high quality and realistic. The story is interesting to the end. This game has a lot of side quests which adds fun to original game. Gameplay is limited, so after finishing current story we have nothing to do. Map is also limited, so we can’t access any more places than given map. It incudes lots of swearing, sexual things and violence. I think this game is one of the best versions of GTA, because of it’s driving system and high quality graphics. Kids should not be allowed to play his game as they would learn all about violence and swearing included in game. Anyway this game is great and interesting story makes it fun to play for a long time.