| Multimedia
Production
Process |
- Plan
- Identify your presentation objectives.
- Brainstorm with a number of potential ideas and develop a mind map.
- Identify room, screen, and equipment parameters.
- Identify multimedia components you will need.
- Assess content resources needed and develop a timeline of
production.
- Reserve room and equipment needed for presentation.
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- Design
- Develop an information design that helps your audience to listen .
- Outline your presentation and develop a storyboard.
- Make your visuals visible, clear, and simple.
- Gather
- Locate and evaluate potential material that you want to include in
your visuals.
- Clarify copyright/intellectual protection issues.
- Digitize
- Convert files, scan text for optical character recognition.
- Scan or capture images, digitize sounds or movies.
- Produce
- Convert/insert files to presentation software.
- Organize and layout your presentation.
- Carefully spellcheck and edit your material online before outputting to
transparency
or slide.
- Add online transitions if needed.
- Deliver
- Set up equipment and arrange the room.
- Rehearse several times if possible to coordinate speaking and
visuals.
- Resolve any equipment/software problems
- Deliver the presentation.
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| Digitizing Pathways |
The table below illustrates some of the common pathways from
original
source materials to digital files. These files can be used to produce
multimedia
materials for presentations.
| Source |
Input Pathway |
| Paper |
|
| Graphic, instrument tracing, photograph |
- Scan with flatbed scanner.
- Capture with digital camera.
|
| Slide or negative |
|
| Sound, music, narration, special effects |
- Capture with sound board or built-in sound hardware.
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| Video from video tape, laserdisc, camera |
- Capture via video digitizing board or built-in video hardware.
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| Delivery Pathways |
Once your material is digitized and organized, you
have a number of delivery
options. The same material can easily be be modified and adjusted to fit
the appropriate delivery mechanism. The most common delivery paths for
presentations
are via:
- computer projectors
- overhead projectors
- slide projectors
- poster sessions
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| Suggested
References |
- Lindstrom, Robert L. The Business Week Guide to Multimedia
Presentations:
Create Dynamic Presentations That Inspire. McGraw-Hill, 1994.
- Welsh, Thomas. From multimedia to multiple-media: designing
computer-based
course materials for the information age. TechTrends
January/February,
1997: 17-23.
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