Multimedia
Tauraus Josey August 7, 2014
Multimedia components
Multimedia is using one or more than one medium of expression or communication. The five components of it are, text, graphics, audio, video, and interactivity. Text is written words, numbers, and symbols; graphics are images, audio is the sound, video are the animations, and interactivity is the user's choice of how's something done in the multimedia.
Types of multimedia
There are five types of multimedia, presentations, tutorials, simulations, games, and web pages. Presentations are simply sequences of pages that incorporate the components of multimedia, tutorial teach skills or procedures, simulations are used for training, entertaining, and informing, games are used for training/teaching, and web pages are used for entertaining, informing, training, reference, and research.
Input and Output devices
There are many input and output devices. Some input devices are keyboards, digital cameras, graphics tablet, scanners, game controllers, and etc. Some output devices are monitors, projectors, printers, speakers, and etc.
Multimedia stages of production
There are six stages of production and they are, analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance. Analysis are the goals, requirements, and the audience, design is the look and scope of it, development is the testing and creation, implementation is finishing it to make it available to the audience, evaluation is the measurement of how effective the product was to the audience, and maintenance is