Student Questions:

1. What is a good practice when using text in aa multimedia application?
2. Name a Lossy image type and a Lossless image type
3. What are the steps used to create a JPEG image?
4. What are the differences between vector and rasterized graphics?
5. What is the difference between authoring software and development software?


1) Differentiate between Description Based Encoding and Command Based Encoding.
2) Define the following: a) Lossless Compression b) Lossy Compression.
3) Explain why Lossy Data Compression is sometimes preferred over Lossless.
4) Define the term “Sampling” in multimedia and briefly discuss the factors that influence Sample Quality.
5) Image is 600x350 pixels at 16 bit color. How many bytes does the image take up.

1. Define multimedia
2. What is the advantage of computer images?
3. Pick a bitmap image format and discuss it's benefit.

  1. What are 2 advantages of Line Art?
  2. What is downsampling?
1. What are some examples of multimedia text?
2. What are the two main approaches of rendering images?

1. What is the difference between lossy and lossless compression?

2. What are the three metaphors of authoring apps?

1. What is the difference between interactive and non-interactive multimedia?
2. What is the difference between data and information?
3. Give an example of low level programming languge.
4. Give the definition of authoring software.
5. What is typeface?


1. Calculate image size if image is 500 x 200 pixels at 8 bit color. (Answer in bytes).
2. Difference between lossless and lossy compression?
3. What is storyboard and what is it used for?

1. How many color possibilities are there in a 24-bit color model?
2. How many characters are there in a ASCII 7-bit code?


My Questions:

Business uses for multimedia
Serif Typeface vs. Sans Serif Typeface
How does a storyboard help in the design of a multimedia project?
What is the difference between a linear and a non linear multimedia experience?
What are some of the problems that can arise when using words and text in a multimedia presentation?
What is the difference between lossy and lossless compression?
How does using media elements instead of text in your multimedia project help to make it a better experience?
What is Multimedia and hypermedia and what are some examples
Key definitions- multimedia , interactive multimedia , hypermedia, multimedia developers
Linear vs Non-Linear
Give 2-3 examples of usages of Multimedia in the real world.
Font terminology - typeface, font, kerning
What unit is used to measure font size?
ASCII vs Unicode
What are the stages a multimedia project?
Types of Authoring Tools
Type of software
Multimedia history