Multimedia Design

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Multimedia Design

• Week 6
• Connectivity and Bandwidth

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Report Submission

• Proof-read!
• Two printed copies to student support office by
  tue 7th Nov 4pm
• Digital copy uploaded to blackboard turnitinUK by
  the same time
• Those of you still looking for resources check
  through the announcements/links and lecture
  notes on blackboardand try google.

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Flash Website Project

• A video game
• Music a band or an artist
• A film
• A nightclub / festival / event
• A book
• A hobby

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Flash Website (50)
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Flash Website Project

• Remember to start your designs on paper
• Bring your website ideas/work to the labs next
  week!

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Site Purpose

• The way you design your site depends on its
  purpose and audience
• Look at examples of similar sites before
  development
• Dont recreate their mistakes, instead improve
  them.
• Single function sites should be the simplest to
  use. (like your coursework!)

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Internet Connectivity
Households in the UK with Internet Access
Office of National Statistics
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Internet Connectivity

• An estimated 13.9 million households (57) in
  Great Britain could access the Internet from home
  between January and April 2006
• 69 of households with Internet access had a
  broadband connection

Office of National Statistics
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Broadband

• June 2006 - broadband connections formed 72.6
  of all Internet connections (home and business)
• 19 of UK broadband users subscribe to a metered
  service.
• http//www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp
  ?vlnk8251
• http//www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp
  ?vlnk5672

Office of National Statistics
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Bandwidth

• Broadband speeds vary 256Kbps 8Mbps
• Remember bits not bytes!

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Optimizing Media

• Images
• Gif if less than 256 colours
• Jpeg for photos
• Photoshop Save for Web
• Use appropriate resolutions resize in photoshop
• Audio
• Use sparingly
• Mp3 rather than wav

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Optimizing Media

• Video
• Use appropriate formats for the web
• Windows Media Video .wmv (needs windows)
• Quicktime .mov (needs Quicktime software)
• Flash video .mov (needs Flash Player)

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Bandwidth Calculators

• Remember overheads!
• Downloads, Streaming Audio, Torrents!
• http//www.numion.com/Calculators/Time.html

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Flash Techniques

• Pre-loaders
• Cookies
• Separating a site into separate swfs
• Dynamically loading text, images, audio swfs
• Optimising media
• Compression Settings

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For Next Week

• Bring your project ideas to the labs
• On the Flash Help discussion board, post a link
  to a useful flash tutorial you have found online