Multimedia Systems

Question 1

What is media?

Answer 1

– text and numbers
– audio
– images and/or animations
– video
– hyperlinks

Question 2

Distinguish between different approaches to animation including path-based and cell-based through practical investigations.

Answer 2

Cell-based where each frame is drawn.
Path-based where sprites are moved on fixed background.

Question 3

Describe the roles and skills of the people who design multimedia systems.

Answer 3

– content providers
– system designers and project managers
– those skilled in the collection and editing of each of the media types
– those skilled in design and layout
– those with technical skills to support the use of the information technology being used

Question 4

What are major areas of multimedia uses.

Answer 4

– education and training
– leisure and entertainment
– information provision, such as information kiosk
– virtual reality and simulations such
as flight simulator
– combined areas such as educational
games

Question 5

What are storyboard layouts?

Answer 5

– linear
– hierarchical
– non-linear
– a combination of these

Question 6

Describe the process of analog to digital conversion.

Answer 6

With scanners, cameras or microphones with different resolutions measured in DPI.

Question 7

Describe the compression of audio, image and video data and information.

Answer 7

Lossy and lossless, either reducing quality or replacing data with something which takes up less room.

Question 8

Issues related to multimedia systems.

Answer 8

Copyright
Appropriate use of the internet
Merging of radio, TV, comms, Internet
Integrity of original source of data
Current and emerging trends