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"Multimedia developers generate and manipulate graphic images, animations, sound, text and video into consolidated and seamless multimedia programs. Multimedia applications include computer-based, interactive training, data presentation and information kiosks, CD-ROMs, entertainment and educational products, and multimedia presentations." |
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Multimedia developers may perform the following tasks:
- talk with clients to see what is required
- investigate, analyse and recommend appropriate equipment and software to achieve the clients' objectives
- prepare flow diagrams and storyboards to outline the product concept
- prepare code to produce the multimedia product
- prepare in digital format two- and three-dimensional graphic images and animations, video/sound production and editing, scan photographs and images, retouch and manipulate images
- prepare design concepts
- talk with related graphics, production and engineering experts
- manage the development and implementation of multimedia products.
Specialisation is common in the industry, although multimedia developers often perform a combination of the following roles:
- Author-based Programmer who applies appropriate multimedia authoring technologies to conceptualise, design, assemble and integrate a variety of images, text, animation and/or sound before selecting and applying the desired program structure to produce a multimedia end-product. This may involve writing scripts, using namespaces and packages and writing extensions. This process is sometimes described as 'authoring a multimedia sequence'.
- Computer-based Graphic Designer who uses computing technology and specialist software packages to manage the production, interface and integration of various graphics and other media into the multimedia package design. This includes the design of art and copy layouts for CD-ROM and multimedia products. It is possible to further specialise and focus on specific industry sectors such as advertising, corporate design, internet applications or exhibition design.
- Digital Video-sound Editor who is involved in the computer-based editing of video-sound for multimedia products. Working under instruction from directors, editors make editorial decisions with regard to the mood, pace and climax of sound effects. This involves working closely with other professional staff to analyse, evaluate and select sound effects for integration with images and other mediums.
- Instructional Designer who designs and develops content and curriculum products, learning support resources and delivery/assessment methodologies. Instructional designers increasingly use the flexibility offered by multimedia applications to target specific learning objectives and audiences.
Personal Requirements:
- technical aptitude
- able to visualise and conceptualise
- creative, imaginative and with artistic flair
- effective team leader and team member
- client focus
- commitment to understanding and using new technology
- high-level project management capacity and ability to work to deadlines
- aptitude for drawing
- sense of colour and form
- patient and attentive to detail.
Graduates develp generic skills in:
- Creative self expression
- Capacity to analyse and interpret in a dispassionate and objective manner
- Critical thinking and conceptual ability
- Flexibility, adaptibilty and resourcefullness
- Commitment
- Knowledge application, problem solving and decision making
- Computer literacy
- Self motivation, initiative and willingness to learn
- Sell assurance and self promotion skills, personal growth/critical self awareness
- Data acquisition, analysis, research techniques and marshalling facts in support of arguments
- Understanding of cultural differences
- Written expression, communication and linguistic skills
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