Multimedia Development Services [Top-7 Multimedia Services to Generate Interest]

Multimedia services from NetCentric provide enhanced communications, better interest and awareness, and can often even reduce operating costs. From Flash presentations that breath life into your message, to email branding, to web teleconferences, NetCentric has an offering to fit your needs and budget. Below are some unique examples of how you can use multimedia to grow your business.

Talking Web Sites
This technology puts audio 'snippets' on your web site to greet visitors, explain products and services, enhance accessibility, and encourage commerce. A combination of streaming audio and Flash, 'play buttons' will please your web visitors with a new dimension in interactivity.

Animated Web Presentations

Your message can be communicated more effectively with an animated presentation containing animated graphics, photography, audio, and video. This technology presents a most compelling message, explains better than static images and text, and can allow for the viewer to interact. Use for demonstrations, company introductions, product launches, and more.

Email Branding & Advertising

Establish yourself as an expert in your industry with multimedia email messages. This technology relies on the strengths of HTML email, and either proprietary or Flash technology, to deliver compelling and interactive multimedia email messages. May contain web content, audio, video, and animation.

Virtual Tours & Walk-throughs

This technology turns digital photographs, panoramas, videos and audio files into interactive streaming multimedia presentations and virtual tours. Featuring 360-degree tours, rotatable 3-D graphics, walk-throughs, and more, this technology is great for travel agencies, realtors, and manufacturers. Your visitors truly benefit from an intense graphic experience.

Streaming Audio & Video
For web site or CD-based presentation where static web pages just won't do, supplement it with streaming audio and video. Because the media is 'streamed' (fed to the visitor in small portions), it is usable by those with even the slowest Internet connections. From music to speeches, streaming media will create interest and keep your visitors attention. This particular sample is not actually streamed. Video courtesy of John West Salmon.

Multimedia Games

One of the most unique ways to generate interest, traffic, and a memorable experience for your web site visitors is with an online game. Custom games are a fun way to deliver your message, establish your brand, and keep visitors interested and on-site.

E-Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, and Training

Learn how you can communicate better internally and externally, and save considerable costs on meetings, training, and support. Take the next leap in multimedia communications.

A Simple Multimedia Definition

Multimedia Design is a way of communicating a concept or information via a website, CD-ROM, kiosk, usually in an interactive form. Television uses multimedia specialists in the non interactive form. Many different varieties of media and techniques are used in production. As a multimedia professional you will be skilled in manipulating images and information from a variety of sources including audio, video, still images, animation, physical objects, text, soundtracks and digital data using computer applications and related visual and sound techniques. Let's take a closer look and compare the interactive vs the non interactive multimedia designer...

a) Interactive Multimedia Design:

This includes work on kiosks, interactive CDs or DVDs, and Web Design. Audio, Video, Animation, Photos and more can be elements in the overall design of the output. But it is the Graphical User Interface (GUI) that sets Interactive design apart from Audio Visual Design. There has to be some sort of navigation involved that gives the user the choice of which content they choose to access, and when. So as an Interactive Multimedia Specialist, it will be your job to make sure that all media elements tie in together effectively, AND the user can easily navigate to find the information that they seek through the Graphical User Interface.

b) Non Interactive:

This kind of work can be seen on non interactive output such as TV & the Internet. Commercials, websites using Flash intros, and movies are all examples of work that an Audio Visual Specialist might have his or her hands in.
Multimedia designers will often work with programs such as Adobe Premiere, Macromedia Director, Adobe Photoshop, and sometimes Microsoft PowerPoint for business presentations. On the Internet, it has become popular to use Macromedia Flash to present a multimedia experience in a quick downloading format.

What Kinds of Jobs are Available to Me With a Multimedia Design Degree?

As a successful graduate of a good multimedia program, you can apply for positions such as scriptwriter for multimedia, web designer, multimedia producer, computer-based training designer, web script language developer, and more. There are many entry-level career opportunities with corporations, organizations, educational institutions, government agencies, entertainment, and advertising industries. The types of industry sector offering work are broadening for two reasons: the cost of multimedia software and hardware is falling and multimedia communications using the web are becoming mainstream. The uses of multimedia are becoming more diverse from games, and entertainment to advertising, and training. The latest application is in mobile telephony.

What Do I Need to become a Multimedia Designer?

Your work will need to be accurate in fine detail; there is very little room for error. You will also need to be able to see 'the big picture' and have a feel for how a finished piece of work will appear and be used. You will need to be highly creative and a good communicator in order to express your ideas verbally and visually. You must be capable of working on your own as well as in a team. Many jobs require that you work to a deadline which may very well involve working late or at weekends occasionally in order to finish a piece on time. You need to demonstrate your understanding of the Arts, so a qualification in art or graphic design or similar would be useful. There is a plethora of software tools, which are available to a Multimedia Designer. Whilst you do not need to be fully conversant in all of them before the course, it would be a good idea to have at least a little training in some of them. Students who lack a sense of the aesthetic or who are not computer literate will struggle.

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