VCT/420 Week 1

Digital Rights Management

Write a 350- to 700-word response to the following:
How can Windows Media digital rights management (DRM), which
refers to access control technologies used by publishers, copyright
holders, and hardware manufacturers limit usage of digital media or devices and as such, offer authentication functionality for content providers and digital media file retailers?

Supporting Activity: Microsoft Web Authoring Tools

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:
How can Microsoft web authoring tools be used to design, develop, implement, and deploy multimedia websites?

Supporting Activity: Visualization

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:
What impact will advances in multimedia have on visualization used in business communications?

VCT/420 Week 2

Kudler Fine Foods

Flash Movie Scene One

Write a 350- to 700-word response to the following:
The individual assignments in this course build upon each other with the end product being a Flash movie, which could be used for web advertisement. The movie will have three scenes.

• Review the Kudler Fine Foods site in the Virtual Organizations.
• Select a store department to highlight.
• In scene one of a Flash movie, introduce the store department
  using text that zooms from a smaller to a larger size until it zooms off
  the stage.

Supporting Activity: Transferring Graphic Files

Write a 350 word response to the following:
What problems are encountered in transferring graphic files from one system to another? How will standardization resolve these problems?

Supporting Activity: Information

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:
As more and more information is available to businesses, how can that information be effectively communicated using multimedia?

VCT/420 Week 3

Kudler Fine Foods

Flash Movie Scene Two

This week’s assignment will add a scene two to last week’s Flash
movie.

• In scene two, fade in and out a series of products associated with the
  store department introduced in scene one.
• Fade in and out a minimum of five products. You can add variety to
  the fade in and out by staggering the effect. For example, fade in a
  product after fading in another product, and then fade out the first
  product.

Tutorial contains all files and images needed to adjust and make edits.

Supporting Activity: Increased Sampling

Write a 350 word response to the following:
Is there a point beyond which increased sampling does not benefit video or audio sampling rates? Explain.

Supporting Activity: Video Formats

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:

Which video formats are used for websites? Which formats are best for web-based video?

VCT/420 Week 4

Kudler Fine Foods

Flash Movie Scene Three

This week’s assignment will complete the Flash movie.

• Add a scene three, which is the advertisement.
• In scene three, display specials and promotions for the store
  department.
• Add a replay button at the end of the movie.

Tutorial contains all files and images needed to adjust and make edits.

Supporting Activity: Interactive Multimedia

Write a 350- to 700-word response to the following:
How can interactive multimedia be a benefit to advertisers? Provide 3 examples of effective multimedia used in advertising and explain what components make them effective marketing tool.

Supporting Activity: Learning Process

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:

How can interactive multimedia assist in the learning process? Over time, will this change the way people learn?

VCT/420 - Week 5

Team Final Project & Presentation

Baderman Island Multimedia Project

• Complete the Learning Team project.
• Finalize and submit storyboard for the television commercial.
• Finalize and submit memorandum on video, graphic, and audio
  parameters for the television commercial.
• Finalize and submit storyboard for the splash screen.

FINAL PROJECT PREVIEW

Tutorial contains all files needed to adjust and make edits.

Challenges

Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you address the challenges of accessing multimedia content using mobile devices. What future trends do you see developing with multimedia access and the popularity of mobile devices?

Supporting Activity: Libraries

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:
How will multimedia influence the future of libraries?

Supporting Activity: Trends

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:
What are the trends in mobile multimedia?