Chapter 01: introduction to multimedia

Job Opportunities in Multimedia Production

• Product Marketing & Promotion
• TV commercials
• Multimedia advertising
• Video-based marketing and promotion
• Marketing web-page development
• Entertainment
• Film special effects
• Video animation
• Interactive TV
• Virtual reality simulations
• Internet game development
• Kiosk design

Job Opportunities in Multimedia Production

• Scientific Research
• Medical and dental
• Physics simulations
• Chemical modeling
• Astronomical research
• Mathematical research
• Real Estate Development
• Site-use studies
• Architectural design
• Landscape design
• Structural Engineering
• Property sales

Job Opportunities in Multimedia Production

• Education
• Edutainment software
• Educational software
• Distance learning
• Web pages
• Multimedia textbooks

Applications of Multimedia

• There are many examples of the application of multimedia in our
• everyday life. Some of the examples:
• Art
• Ebook’s A Survey of Western Art presents more than a thousand
• full-color photographs of Western paintings, sculpture and
• architecture that span history from ancient Egypt to modern
• America.
• Language
• Syracuse Language System publishes the award-winning Playing
• with Language Series on CD ROM.

Applications of Multimedia

• Education
• E-Learning (distance learning) and “courseware”.
• Facilitate learning-helping students for more understanding.
• Providing feedback.
• Virtual Reality (VR)
• Virtual reality is an extension of multimedia.
• It uses the basic multimedia elements of imagery, sound, and animation.
• It requires terrific computing horsepower to be realistic.
• In VR, cyberspace is made up of thousands of geometric objects plotted in three-dimensional space.