Multimedia
Whatever your multimedia project, UsersGroup.TV offers an impressive range of resources: We're one of those serious, client-focused teams that are helping to create this new TV cyber-horizon. Our multimedia experience is wide-ranging, solutions-oriented, and spans the globe in both experience and technology. Our people are creative, yet sophisticated and fully capable of producing a top-notch result. With each new Member, we strive to form a partnership, combining our Member's business need and content knowledge with our interactive design and technical know-how. Such partnerships are unusual in the production industry, but once established, we realize these partnerships are valuable, last long and deliver the best solutions.
We bring to the table experienced guidance in your current development efforts, and can assist at every step of the way. We offer experts in creative and artistic direction, audiovisual production, programming and instructional utility, backing up our work with quality assurance and tech support. Our Member-Focused Staff offers a resource that today is truly rare: A long-term high-tech background that has ensured numerous projects came through with functional excellence, on time and on budget.
Multimedia Bulletin Board
We have created a Multimedia Bulletin Board to assist you in locating skilled expert help for your category of need or focus that includes the following professional categories:
Project Managers who work with you and your representatives from concept to delivery.
Creative Directors who interface creative concept and available resources.
Instructional Designers who script logical storyboard events into learning modules that will maintain interest and create understanding throughout your program.
Instructional Technologists who interface graphics, audio, and video creation\conversion, ensuring all elements of your program are functional.
Copy Editors who take a fresh look at text and scripting for clarity, consistency and continuity, helping condense it for on-screen impact.
Media Specialists who create logical connections, enabling users to explore related information in various parts of your delivery, within a module or between modules.
Animators who do cutaways, zoomdowns, picture-in-picture, etc. and make your project come alive.
Translators for text, audio, and program controls to accommodate non-English audiences.
Programmers who tie the creative functions together to make the magic happen.
Quality Experts who ensure that your product is top notch.
Webcast Marketers who get out the word to the right audiences about your creation so you can benefit from their interaction.
Multimedia Tips and Tricks
The principles for producing good multimedia products sound simple: Know your audience, know the purpose of your title, and design your product to serve both. But the main prerequisite for multimedia development is to intuit, based upon wide-ranging experience in production, customer service and technology, the elements of design for a unique, fresh, intriguing look for your audience. Maintaining the right look and feel is crucial for a title because multimedia is more visual than verbal.
Continuity of the multimedia audience experience is a big issue. To accomplish this will require taking your existing data through the storyboarding process, transforming it into usable formats, tweaking copy, and creating useful Help files. You, as master project planner, have got to see the overview of your orchestrated events. You've got to help the line workers position themselves as valuable and productive members of the multimedia team.
To do this you need to:
Learn the language of multimedia. It's not just tech talk. You don't have to become a Spielberg, but you do have to know the basics.
Use multimedia to see firsthand how it really works, do research using CD-ROM encyclopedias and read interactive books. Immerse yourself in this way to discover what's good and what's problematic in current titles. See for yourself how you can add quality and fill voids in multimedia projects. Check out Professor Multimedia as a useful guide to general multimedia.
Actively represent storytelling as an ingredient that's just as important to multimedia development as sound, animation, and interactive text links. Look for opportunities to storytell to multimedia users about your unique slant in the product or service realm.
Use the Net to reach and interact with potential high-tech input sources. Go where they live, through tech forums, such as developer and producer groups. Put your own home page up as a multimedia professional as a way to demonstrate your familiarity with electronic media and interact with peers.
