1. CMPD 434 MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING
Chapter 03
Multimedia Authoring Process I

2. Objective At the end of this chapter, students should be able to:
Describe Multimedia Project’s Planning and Management
Identify Application basics – static media types, formats and integration
Creating Linear Presentations
Text
Imported graphics
Timing

3. Planning and Costing The Process of Making Multimedia Idea Analysis
Pretesting
Task Planning
Prototype Development
Alpha Development
Beta Development
Delivery

4. Idea Analysis
As you think through your idea, must continually weigh your purpose or goal against the feasibility and cost of production and delivery.
Ideas don’t always flesh out. Use whiteboard, notepaper or scratch pads to write down your idea, ultimately you will generate a plan of action that will become road map for production.
Who need the project?
Is it worthwhile?
Do you have the materials at hand to build?
Do you have skills?
What multimedia element will be best deliver?

5. Idea management Software
Project Management Software
dotProject, OpenProj, and GanntProject
Outlining Programs
Microsoft OneNote, Excel
Is useful to arrange ideas, task, work items, employee resources and costs.

6. Pretesting Define your project goals
Work up a prototype of the project on paper, with explanation of how it will work.
Help to organize your idea and test it against the real world.

7. Task Planning
There may be many task in multimedia project. Below is few of task:
Create Storyboards
Design Interface
Design Information Containers
Assemble Team
Build Prototype
Conduct user test
Revise Design
Create Graphic, Animation, Video, Audio
Test Functionality

8. Prototype Development
Development prototype only after decided the project is worth doing
The point is you have begin the serious work at the computer, building screen mock-ups and human interface of menus and button clicks
Also called as proof of concept or feasibility study
Might select only a small portion of a large project and get that part working as it would in the final product.
During this phase you can test ideas, mock up interface, exercise the hardware platforms.

9. Prototype Development
Test your prototype along several fronts
Technology
Cost
Market
Human interface
One of the main purpose of any prototype is to test the initial implementation of your idea and improve on it based on the result.

10. Alpha Development Beta Development
Also knows as alpha release, its just a more focused and more people involved compared to the prototype.
Select few real users and test your alpha release then provide feedback.
Beta Development
By this time you have committed serious time, energy and money. So its impossible or too late to bail out.
But now your project will look great, more features are working.
Distribute to wider arena of tester.

11. Delivery Producing final product.
Now your worries slide towards the marketplace, will it received by audience, will they enjoy the product.
How the project is delivered to the user?
CD-ROM
DVD
WEB

12. Application basics – static media types, formats and integration
Multimedia integration model that allows the expression of different facets of multimedia presentation such as: Media, Temporal, Spatial and Link.
Media allows to specify the location of media content
Spatial allows to specify the layout of each media on screen
Temporal allows to specify the temporal presentation of each media
Link allows to set hyperlinks on the media, which creates the navigation and interaction scenario of the presentation.

13. Creating Linear Presentation
start at the beginning then each slide is presented one after another in numerical order.
A linear presentation is very good for imparting facts and figures such as presenting the annual results of the company or summarizing a finished project.
Not always non-linear presentation plays an important role.

14. Important Features of creating linear presentation
Text
Add text in Layout “hot spots”
Use as few different faces as possible in the same work – vary size and weight of the typeface using italic or bold.
Explore effects of different colors and placing text on different backgrounds
Use anti-aliased text to get gentle and blended look.

15. Important Features of creating linear presentation
Imported Graphics
The graphics need to be high resolution and clear
Add appropriate graphics with exact ratio of the original image/graphic
Choose colour and theme based on the overall theme
Graphics also can be used to deliver the content

16. Important Features of creating linear presentation
Timing
Based of number of slides/content and also the total time for presentation
If for a video, make sure the timing of content appearing is follow the flow of content