1. What is Multimedia?
Module Introduction

2. Module Team

3. The Future of Multimedia
Technology directly interfacing with our nervous system
Track down a copy of Black Mirror – History of You

4. Immersive Sensory Experiences
Sight
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Multimedia will become a fully immersive experience that takes over all of our senses

5. Ethical Considerations
Will it come with an off button?
Will we have adverts pumped directly into our heads?
Will everything we do be monitored and tracked?
Might we get hacked?
These are important questions that don’t just relate to the above future scenario they are questions that we need to think about in the here and now.

6. So what is Multimedia? Depends who you are… PC Vendor
PC with sound & video
Consumer Entertainment
Cable TV
Smart TV
Online service – Netflix
Developer
Applications for authoring multimedia
Text, graphics, animation, video and sound
Plus interactivity
Convergence – many technologies and disciplines coming together e.g.
Programming
Human computer interaction
Graphic design

7. Potential Applications
Video conferencing – Skype
Distance learning – Open University
Cooperative applications – Google docs / on-line games
Augmented reality – Google glass (Last sighted in a local CEX store) – Oculus rift
So many areas of Computing impacted by multimedia

8. Technical Aspects Processing and Encoding
How to store images and video efficiently yet still preserving quality
System integration and Networking
Protocols and hardware allowing communication of content
Tools and authoring applications
HTML 5, DreawWeaver, PhotoShop etc
Security / Ethical Considerations
Sony pictures leak
Pirate Bay
Genesis & Icefilms

9. History of Multimedia Newspapers – text & graphics
Rome 59B.C. China 202 B.C
Venice 16C
Johann Gutenberg : the printing press 1450's
Motion pictures - 19th & 20th Century – The Jazz Singer 1927 (The first feature-length Hollywood "talkie")
Radio - Marconi 1895
Television / Video 20th C 

10. Multimedia Landmarks
1945 MEMEX Vannevar Bush described a theoretical machine able to display books and films with the ability to follow cross-references from one article to another
1960s Xanadu – Ted Nelson – Hypertext
1968 Douglas Engelbart – On Line System NLS (Outline Editor, Hypertext Links, Teleconferencing, Word Processing, E Mail, Mouse Pointing Device, Windowing Software and Help Systems.)
1989 Tim Berners-Lee The World Wide Web

11. Hypermedia and Multimedia
Ted Nelson – Hypertext
Book – linear
Hypertext – non linear
Hypermedia
Not just text based
Electronic newspapers
Reference tools
Games
Home shopping
On-line study
Video / Film on demand
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. Ted Nelson.

12. The World Wide Web
Up until about 1989 the Internet existed quite happily without the World Wide Web
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Telnet
Usenet
World Wide Web is not the Internet!

13. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
A protocol is an agreed set of rules for doing something
HTTP designed for transmitting hypermedia
The Uniform Resource Locator identifies the resource accessed
For example the URL:

14. Some Processes in HTTP
Client side scripting

15. Problems and Limitations Associated with HTML
There are two issues associated with HTML which need to be considered
Standardisation (or lack of)
"Browser Wars"
HTML is a mark-up language and is not very good at specifying presentation
Introduction of Cascading Style Sheets
The World Wide Web Consortium  
"W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines"

16. HTML Much tighter specification devised based on XML i.e. XHTML
XHTML - transitional
XHTML strict
Unfortunately the standards were not widely adopted
Some people went back to HTML 4
Some stopped at XHTML transitional
Some browsers didn’t implement the support for XHTML
 2006 the W3C changed their mind and around 2007 pretty much abandoned XHTML in favor of HTML 5
Follows many rules of XML but more relaxed
Includes native support for multimedia

17. Multimedia Software Tools
Music Sequencing and Notation
Cakewalk
Cubase
Digital Audio
Adobe Audition (Was Cool Edit)
Sound Forge
Pro Tools
Graphics and Image Editing
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Fireworks
Video Editing
Adobe Premier
Animation
Java script
Adobe Flash
Thomas and John Knoll developers of PhotoShop
John worked in a small experimental division of Industrial Light and Magic (George Lucas’s film studio) called Pixar.

18. About the Module Adobe Software Dreamweaver, Photoshop (Flash)
Web technologies HTML 5 & Java script
Creative use of technology in a Business Internet context
Hopefully it will be both challenging and fun

19. Teaching Learning & Assessment
Teaching 2 x labs – 1 x lecture
Learning Driven by you
I simply push you in the right direction
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20. Learning Resources Course web site Detailed notes in Word & PowerPoint
(CTEC2608)
Detailed notes in Word & PowerPoint

21. Schedule and Assessment
Pre Christmas – general overview of multimedia technology
After Christmas – HTML 5 & Animation using JavaScript