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Multimedia Applications

Multimedia is the use of new technology to combine text, graphics, sound and video in an interactive way.

Interactive is when the user is responding to prompts from the computer often to indicate what has to be done next.

There are 4 types of media used in multimedia:
TEXT includes words, letters, characters, digits in a variety of different fonts, styles and sizes
GRAPHICS includes photographs, line drawings, sketches, maps, painting, clipart, animation, charts
SOUND includes noises, music, speech
VIDEO includies movies, television and animations

In this section, you will study the following topics:-