HISTORY OF MULTIMEDIA By Gabby Schmitz Period 6

WHAT IS MULTIMEDIA? • Used for business, education, and research • Proposes art, music, educational, data, etc. in a media form

BEGINNING OF MULTIMEDIA • 1455 -1890 • Started with the: • Printing press • Telephone • Electricity • Photographs • Typewriter • Musical scores for film • Phonography

CURRENT TRENDS • Home theaters • Videos such as Movie Maker • Power points • Websites

HOW VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY IMPACT MULTIMEDIA • Visual aid to presentations • Advances use of multimedia with technology.

WHAT IS SOCIAL NETWORKING • Through networking, communicating with others of common interests or communicating with others informally. • Such networks are Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr

BLOGGING • A website of ones own individual • Records opinions, website links and activity with oneself

PODCAST • Multimedia file • Can be downloaded to internet to a portable media player • Consists of episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or e. Pub files

ROLE OF GAMING AND GAME DESIGN IN MULTIMEDIA • Provides interactive, multimedia communications • Data processing services • products to gaming • entertainment industries

WHAT IS INTERACTIVE MEDIA? • Products and services on digital computer-based systems • Respond to the user’s actions by presenting content • Text, graphics, animation, video, audio, games, etc.