This weeks lecture was based around the subject matter of Multimedia. Multimedia is a broad topic consisting of many off branches. For example, Multimedia consists of Text, SOunds, Graphics and Animation. Todays Internet is crowded with multimedia all over it and websites are today being built with more graphics and animations whan ever before. The growth of Multimedia on the web is evident as websites like YouTube are now worth billions of US Dollars. YouTube also link there multimedia to other websites using HTML. The fundimental components in multimedia, i.e, Grpahics, Animation etc all have specific file extentions that are supported within the web. Some examples of these are, .JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) and .GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) which are graphical file extentions. To round of this lecture we were shown some examples of multimedia within the Interenet. We were shown a two clips from YouTube, the Cadburys gorila advert and a videoa of Geogrge Bush and Tony Blair singing to eachother, this video had been digitaly composed.
The tutorial this week consisted of a task where i had to search the glamorgan website for certain aspects which are involved in making a good website. i had the checklist and had to search for it on the glamorgan website and then tick it off and answer questions if i found it. Some of these tasks involved looking for internal links, external links and use of text, animation and also video if applicable. The tutorial i found was very helpful as it made me actually think of what multimedia makes up the internet and websites, i didnt realise how much of the internet was multimedia based.
2 external links which are useful examples of multimedia are:
www.youtube.com - this is a link to a video website which is an example of multimedia
http://www.willamette.edu/wits/idc/mmcamp/Links_handout.htm - this is a link to many different examples of multimedia such as animation and videos.
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