Assignment No:-1

CAP-323
Multimedia
System

Submitted to: Submitted by:

Respected Ankur Singh
Jasleen Mam Roll no:- Re3801a2

HOMEWORK 1
 DOA: 20/01/11 DoT:-02/02/11
DoS:- 03/02/11

1. You are marketing Director for a small

telecommunications company. You are considering
using Multimedia to market your company’s product.
Put together an outline detailing the benefits and
draw backs of using a CD-ROM presentation, a
Multimedia website, or a Television advertisement.

Ans 1 Advantages
• Television permits you to reach large numbers of people on a
national or regional level in a short period of time
• Independent stations and cable offer new opportunities to
pinpoint local audiences
• Television being an image-building and visual medium, it offers
the ability to convey your message with sight, sound and motion

Disadvantages
• Message is temporary, and may require multiple exposure for
the ad to rise above the clutter
• Ads on network affiliates are concentrated in local news
broadcasts and station breaks
• Preferred ad times are often sold out far in advance
• Limited length of exposure, as most ads are only thirty seconds
long or less, which limits the amount of information you can
communicate
• Relatively expensive in terms of creative, production and
airtime costs
2. Elaborate why the Multimedia skill set is
different from other project skill sets?

Ans 2
 Project manager.
 Multimedia designer.
 Interface designer.
 Writer.
 Video specialist.
 Audio specialist.
 Multimedia programmer.
 Producer for the Web.
 Computer programmers.

3. Why are Multimedia projects most frequently

performed by teams? Whose responsibility is it to
ensure that the team operates effectively? What can
be done to promote team effectiveness?
Ans 3
The project manager is responsible for:
 The overall development, implementation, and day-to-day
operations of the project.
 The design and management of a project.
 Understanding the strengths and limitations of hardware and
software.
 Ensuring people skills and organizational skills.
 Conveying information between the team and the client


PART-B

4. Compare multimedia, interactive Multimedia,

hypertext and hypermedia.

Ans4
MULTIMEDIA:-
The use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation,
and sound in an integrated way. Long touted as the future revolution
in computing, multimedia applications were, until the mid-90s,
uncommon due to the expensive hardware required. With increases
in performance and decreases in price, however, multimedia is now
commonplace. Nearly all PCs are capable of displaying video, though
the resolution available depends on the power of the computer's
video adapter and CPU.

INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA:-
Interactive multimedia is the uses of content forms that includes a
combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and
interactivity content forms sometimes called "rich media" or
interactive multimedia that describes as electronic media devices
used to store and experience multimedia content.

HYPERTEXT:-
Hypertext is an innovation to the paradigms of computing user
interfaces that attempts to overcome the limitations of written text.
Hypertext, instead of remaining static like traditional text, will
dynamically "branch or perform on request" (Nelson 1970). Thus
hypertext makes possible the organization of material in ways that
partially overcome the linearity inherent in written text. The prefix
hyper- (Modern Greek term for over or beyond) signifies the
overcoming of such constraints. The most frequently discussed form
of hypertext document contains automated cross-references to other
documents called hyperlinks. Selecting a hyperlink causes the
computer to load and display the linked document.

HYPERMEDIA
Hypermedia is used as a logical extension of the term hypertext in
which graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks intertwine to
create a generally non-linear medium of information. This contrasts
with the broader term multimedia, which may be used to describe
non-interactive linear presentations as well as hypermedia. It is also
related to the field of Electronic literature.

An extension to hypertext that supports linking graphics, sound, and

video elements in addition to text elements. The World Wide Web is
a partial hypermedia system since is supports graphical hyperlinks
and links to sound and video files. New hypermedia systems under
development will allow objects in computer videos to be hyperlinked.

5. Design a multimedia project that has different

text options in it?
Ans 5

Kerning

Line spacing
Size

Paragraph Spacing

6. Explain static and dynamic elements? Illustrate

with examples.
Ans 6

Static Text
1. Drag a Textbox of Fixed-width on the stage using the Text tool
and select Static Text Type from the Properties window.
2. The Static textbox has a rectangular handle in the upper right
corner, which can be used to adjust the size of the Textbox.

3. The various Text properties such as the Font, Font-size, Font-

style, Font-color, Align etc. can be set using the Properties inspector
as shown above.

4. Expanding-width textboxes can be created by selecting the

Text tool and clicking once on the stage without dragging it, and
start typing the text in it. Note that the expanding textboxes have a
round handle as shown above.

Dynamic Text
1. Drag a Textbox on the stage using the Text tool and select
Dynamic Text Type from the Properties window.

2. The normal Font properties of a textbox can be set for a

Dynamic textbox and it also has more options like, variable names
can be given, line options can be given say, Single Line to display
the text as one line, Selectable and Render text as HTML.
3. Variable names are used to assign dynamic values at runtime
or obtain values from External Sources.

dyn_txt = "SmartWebby Visitor!"