Multimedia Skills

Prepared by,
B.Maaithili
Assistant Professor,
Department of Information Technology,
Saiva Bhanu Kshatriya college, Aruppukottai
 Multimedia Skills
• —detailed knowledge of computers, text,
graphic arts, sound, and video.
• These skills, are the multimedia skill set
• It may be available in a single individual or, in
a composite of individuals working as a team.
 The Team
• A typical team for developing multimedia for DVD or the Web
consists of people who bring various abilities to the table.
• Executive Producer
• Producer/Project Manager
• Creative Director/Multimedia Designer
• Art Director/Visual Designer
• Artist
• Interface Designer
• Game Designer
• Subject Matter Expert
• Instructional Designer/Training Specialist
• Scriptwriter
• Animator (2-D/3-D)
• Sound Producer
• Music Composer
• Video Producer
• Multimedia Programmer
• HTML Coder
• Lawyer/Media Acquisition
• Marketing Director
 Project Manager
• A project manager’s role is at the center of the action.
• He is responsible for the overall development and
implementation of a project as well as for day-to-day
operations
• He has two major areas of responsibility: design and
management.
– Design consists of devising a vision for the product
– Strengths & limitations of Hardware & Software
– management side consists of scheduling and assigning tasks,
running meetings, and managing milestones
– overseeing all aspects of product development from
beginning to end.
• Project Manager/Interface Expert
• Multimedia company looking to immediately fill position working on
• interactive television project for major telecommunications company.
• Project manager needed to manage production and design efforts on
• large-scale, interactive television project for air in United States.
• • Must be adept and experienced at managing complex projects,
• preferably with large corporate accounts.
• • Must have solid understanding of interactivity and experience
• with interactive media in the broadcast television world.
• • Must have several years of experience with interface design or
• have worked in management of an interface design group.
• • Must have good design sensibilities.
• • Communication skills a must; candidate must be an articulate and
• effective communicator, an excellent listener, and should be able
• to act as a conduit for the information passing between our team
• and the client’s teams.
• • Superior attention to detail and ability to coordinate large amounts
• of information a must.
• • Prefer entertainment experience—ideally, television or video
• production.
• • Solid computer or digital media experience and knowledge a
• must.
• • Travel required for visiting focus groups and gathering consumer
• information.
• • Must function well in fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• • Position must be filled immediately.
 Multimedia Designer
• The look and feel of a multimedia project should be pleasing and
aesthetic
• The project should maintain visual consistency
• Navigation clues should be clear and consistent
• and screen elements should be simple and straightforward.
• Graphic designers, illustrators, animators, and image processing
specialists deal with the visuals.
• Instructional designers are specialists in education or training and
make sure that the subject matter is clear and properly presented
for the intended audience.
• Interface designers devise the navigation pathways and content
maps.
• Information designers structure content, determine user
pathways and feedback
 Video Specialist
• Video specialist to be responsible for an entire
team of videographers, sound technicians, lighting
designers, set designers, script supervisors, gaffers,
grips, production assistants, and actors.
• needs to understand how to shoot quality video,
– how to transfer the video footage to a computer,
– how to edit the footage down to the final product
using a digital nonlinear editing system (NLE),
– and how to prepare the completed video files for the
most efficient delivery on DVD or the Web.
 Audio Specialist
• Audio specialists are designing and producing
music, voice-over narrations, and sound effects.
• Audio specialists may be responsible for
locating and selecting suitable music and
talent,
• scheduling recording sessions,
• and digitizing and editing recorded material
into computer files
 Multimedia Programmer
• A multimedia programmer or software
engineer integrates all the multimedia
elements of a project using an authoring
system or programming language.
• Multimedia programming functions range
from coding simple displays of multimedia
elements to controlling peripheral devices and
managing complex timing, transitions, and
record keeping.
 Producer of Multimedia for the Web
• Web site producer is putting together a
coordinated set of pages for the World Wide
Web
• It requires the same creative process, skill
sets, and (often) teamwork as any kind of
multimedia does.
 The Sum of Parts
■ Artists and related workers
■ Multi-Media Artists
■ Animators
■ Designers
■ Motion picture production and distribution
• Television, video, and motion picture camera
operators and editors
• Writers and editors