Strategies for Creating Interactive Multimedia
Overview
• Strategies for creating interactive multimedia. • Designing a multimedia project.
Storyboard
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Strategies for Creating Interactive Multimedia
• A user can either describe the project in minute details, or can build a less-detailed storyboard and spend more effort in actually rendering the project. • The method chosen depends upon the scope of a project, the size and style of the team, and whether the same people will do design and development. • If the design team is separate from the development team, it is best to produce a detailed design first.
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Designing a Multimedia Project
• Designing a multimedia project requires knowledge and skill with computers, talent in graphics, arts, video, and music, and the ability to conceptualize logical pathways. • Designing involves thinking, choosing, making, and doing.
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Designing a Multimedia Project
• Designing the structure. (flowchart) • Designing the user interface. (storyboard)
Designing the Structure
• The manner in which project material is organized has just as great an impact on the viewer as the content itself. • Mapping the structure of a project should be done early in the planning phase.
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Designing the Structure
• Navigation maps are also known as site maps. • They help organize the content and messages. • Navigation maps provide a hierarchical table of contents and a chart of the logical flow of the interactive interface. • Navigation maps are essentially nonlinear.
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Designing the Structure
There are four fundamental organizing structures:
– Linear - Users navigate sequentially, from one frame of information to another.
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Designing the Structure
– Hierarchical - Users navigate along the branches of a tree structure that is shaped by the natural logic of the content. It is also called linear with branching.
• Non-linear - Users navigate freely through the content, unbound by predetermined routes.
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Designing the Structure
• Strategies for creating interactive multimedia. • Designing a multimedia project.
Storyboard
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Strategies for Creating Interactive Multimedia
• A user can either describe the project in minute details, or can build a less-detailed storyboard and spend more effort in actually rendering the project. • The method chosen depends upon the scope of a project, the size and style of the team, and whether the same people will do design and development. • If the design team is separate from the development team, it is best to produce a detailed design first.
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Designing a Multimedia Project
• Designing a multimedia project requires knowledge and skill with computers, talent in graphics, arts, video, and music, and the ability to conceptualize logical pathways. • Designing involves thinking, choosing, making, and doing.
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Designing a Multimedia Project
• Designing the structure. (flowchart) • Designing the user interface. (storyboard)
Designing the Structure
• The manner in which project material is organized has just as great an impact on the viewer as the content itself. • Mapping the structure of a project should be done early in the planning phase.
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Designing the Structure
• Navigation maps are also known as site maps. • They help organize the content and messages. • Navigation maps provide a hierarchical table of contents and a chart of the logical flow of the interactive interface. • Navigation maps are essentially nonlinear.
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Designing the Structure
There are four fundamental organizing structures:
– Linear - Users navigate sequentially, from one frame of information to another.
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Designing the Structure
– Hierarchical - Users navigate along the branches of a tree structure that is shaped by the natural logic of the content. It is also called linear with branching.
• Non-linear - Users navigate freely through the content, unbound by predetermined routes.
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Designing the Structure