Thursday, April 9, 2009

Multimedia Career

Multimedia involves computing and audiovisual technologies to fuse video, audio, text, graphics, animation etc in a meaningful way. It combines all these elements to create a real life experience.The Internet has opened up a plethora of openings for multimedia professionals since multimedia can bring in tremendous dynamism to the medium. Today Web design and content production industry has a lot to do with multimedia. Industries like television, advertising, publishing and so on too demand multimedia professionals for their CD-ROM development, games and Website development etc.

The animator has to produce animation to illustrate the text. They provide life, spirit and motion to the inanimate. They give life to the ideas of the author and the designer. A good animator should have computer graphics skills and also training in animation, which today comes as part of the multimedia courses.There are bright prospects for Web designers today. To be a Web Designer, you should be proficient in HTML, DHTML, FrontPage and Cascading Style Sheets. Knowledge of computer based design tools like Adobe Photoshop and Web design programs like macromedia Dreamweaver and scripting languages such as Perl, VBScript and JavaScript would be a welcome addition.

Sound technician work is to blend sound with the rest of the information. To cater to this requirement, the multimedia training institutes have made audio editing and techniques, a major part of their courses.Graphic artist would deny the fact that graphics add life to the pages online as well as offline. Graphics are works of art and the graphic artist contributes them. He takes care of the layout and design aspects of the page too. The graphic artist should have expertise in software like Photoshop, which can help him in his work.

The basics of computers and the operating system, utilities, how to work with illustrations and visuals, fundamentals of design and effects, page layout creation, animation and painting. Now to add dynamism to your work, you are also taught how to work with video and audio, 3D Modeling and Animation and also Multimedia and CD-ROM authoring. You have to be a thorough professional and so you have to learn Digital photography and Virtual reality concepts, morphing and warping, terrain modeling, Internet technologies, HTML, Web Page Designing, media compression, Java fundamentals etc. Since Web is the most promising field some institutes teach Java programming and scripts, server technologies, DHTML, and CGI scripting with Perl.

2 comments:

  1. I wish learn web design&development, multimedia and animation. Kindly mail me what are the softwares i have to learn for this.

    wordviewer@gmail.com

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