Developing project design documents, Multimedia System Life Cycle, Developing interactive scripts, Ensuring the technical feasibility of scripts and the quality of assets, Supervising the media, Integration of different media, Writing proposals, Budgeting and scheduling, Awareness of appropriate technical standards, Types of authoring programmes, programming languages, Creative use of multimedia assets, Asset management issues, Copyright issues.

Role of Multimedia Producer, Pre Production, Production and Post Production Scenarios, Testing, Delivery

Text Formatting, Fonto-graphy, Hypertext and Hyperlinks, Integrating Text with Graphics and Videos

Display technology, Bitmap and Vector graphics, 2D- 3D graphics, Animations, Digitizing Real world Images, Image Processing Software, Using Light Sources and Perspective

Principles of Sound, Combining Complex Sound, Digital Audio and Analogue Audio, MIDI, Digital Signal Processing and Sampling

Analogue Video and its standards (PAL, SECAM, NTSC), Digital Video and its standards (AVI, MPEG, QUICKTIME, MOV) Video Recorders and formats, Video Editing Software and Understanding of Time Frame, Integrating real world video with graphics and animations

CAV and CLV, Compact Disc Technology and Formats, Laserdisc Technology, Writeable Optical, Media

Macromedia Flash ver 5 or above, Macromedia Dreamveawer 4.0 or above, Macromedia Fireworks 3.0 or above, Macromedia Director 8.0 or above, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Photo

Windows 98/NT4 / 2000/ ME, Macintosh OS 9.0 / 10.0

[1] “The Desktop Multimedia Bible”, Jeff Burger 1995, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

[2] “Multimedia Making It work” (Third Edition), Tay Vaughan, 1996, Osborne Mc Graw Hill

[3] “Hypermedia and the Web-An Engineering Approach”, David Lowe and Wendy Hall, 2000, John

Wiley and Sons

[4] “Multimedia Systems”, John F Koegel Bufford, 1995, ACM Press