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Std-11th Introduction to Multimedia:
- Communication is an integral part of our life. We use various means of communication like radio, newspaper, television, theatre, movies, internet and others. All these medium help us to gain knowledge or educate us.
- A single medium information is just not enough to convey meaningful message to variety of audiences.
- Multimedia is all about adding various effects to make communication effective.
Multimedia:
The term multimedia has been coined from two terms: Multiple and Media. Hence multimedia means usage of multiple Medias to communicate.
In other words, multimedia is a combination of different media elements like text, audio, graphics, video and animation.
In now-a-days multimedia used in every fields like education,theatre,advertising,fashion,gaming etc.
Elements of Multimedia:
Text:
Including text in multimedia is the basic steps towards development of multimedia presentation.
Text is used to communicate information to the user.
Proper use of text and words in multimedia presentation will help to communicate the ideas and message to the user.
Text can be of any type, a word, a single line, or a paragraph.
However to give special effects we need graphics software.
We can even use word processing software like Open Office Writer or MS-Word to create textual data.
The text can have different types, size, color and style to suit professional requirement of the multimedia software.
A typeface is family of character or letter which have similar look. Typeface has different style and size.
Styles are bold, italic and underline and others.
Typeface is categorized into: Serif and Sans Serif. Serif is a little decoration at the end of the character.
Times, Century, Bookman are some examples of serif fonts. Serif fonts are easy to read on a printed
Page as they guide he eye along the line of text.
On the other hand, as the name suggest, Sans Serif (sans in French means ‘without’) are without the decoration. Arial, Verdana and Helvetica are some examples of Sans Serif.
Example
Assume that we want to make a presentation on “Gujarat Tourism”. Using open office impress.
Open a blank presentation in open office impress.
Click on view - toolbars - drawing. This will open the drawing toolbox.
On the drawing toolbar click on the FontWork Gallery icon. FontWork Gallery Dialog Box
In the Fontwork Gallery dialog box, select any style that you like and click on the ok Button.
Double click on the object to enter into the Text edit mode.
Replace the default “FontWork” text with Text “Gujarat Tourism”.
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Multimedia
Text
Video
Audio
Animation Graphics
Press ESC key to exit the text edit mode.
