Multimedia
Different types of media including text, video, sound, graphics and animations.
Multimedia presentations
A computer based, interactive experience that incorporates text, graphics, sound, video, and virtual reality.
Copyright Law
Copyright ensures that the author's rights of images and sounds used in multimedia products are protected and acknowledged. Copyrighted material cannot be used without the owner's permission.
Fair Use
Fair use allows others to use copyright material without infringing on the rights of the owner. Beware that these are only guidelines and do not protect the user from lawsuits!
Build Effect
an effect applied to text that makes it appear on a slide in increments of one letter, word or section at a time; keeps the audience's attention and does not allow the audience to read or see past what the speaker is explaining.
Hyperlinks
"hot spots" or "jumps" to locate another file or page; represented by a graphic or colored and underlined text.
Navigation buttons
allow the user to interact with a multimedia presentation. Allow the end user to navigate between slides, additional elements (i.e. Word and Excel documents), audio, video clips, and other interactive parts of the presentation.
Slide transition
the visual effect of a slide as it moves on and off the screen during a slide show.
Asymmetrical balance
distribution achieved by arranging non-identical elements on both sides of an imaginary center line on the screen.
Inter-screen unity
is the design that users encounter as they navigate from one screen to another; provides consistency throughout a title.
Linear presentations
author of the presentation controls the flow of information in the application.
No balance
a design that has elements arranged on the screen without regard to the optical weight of elements.
Non-linear presentation
allows the user to interact with a presentation and control how the information will be viewed; allows the user to be active rather than passive during the delivery of the information.
Optical weight
the ability of an element such as a graphic, text, headline, or subheading to attract the user's eye.
Symmetrical balance
distribution achieved by arranging elements as horizontal or vertical mirrored images on both sides of an imaginary center line of a screen.
Treatment
how a presentation will be offered to the user; that is, the look and feel of the presentation.
Authoring programs
programs used to create multimedia presentations, such as simulations and tutorials; most have some point-and-click features, but may require some knowledge of programming language concepts; i.e., Microsoft Visual Basic, Macromedia Director.
Adobe Director
authoring program that uses a movie metaphor with the user as the "director" of the movie. It has a scripting language called Lingo which has made it a popular choice for creating CD-ROMs and standalone kiosks and web content. It supports both 2D and 3D multimedia projects.
Programming languages
languages used to create applications and, in multimedia, to produce sophisticated features such as creating animations and searching databases
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