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by Elaine England and Andy Finney
Introduction
- How to use the book and CD-ROM
Ch 1 : The Background : Multimedia and Projects
- What is multimedia?
- What is a multimedia project?
- Summary
Ch 2 : The Background : Multimedia and Project Management
- Multimedia- industry fusion or confusion?
- Is multimedia project management the same as project management?
- Organisational structure effects
- The project manager as team leader
- The role of the multimedia project manager
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 3 : Scoping a Project
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Your objectives
- Online interactive scoping questionnaire
- Offline scoping questionnaire
- Post meeting responsibilities
- Summary
- Online client-centred project scoping questionnaire
- Offline client-centred project scoping questionnaire
- Recommended Reading
Ch 4 : The Proposal
- Project manager's responsibilities
- The aim of the proposal
- What it should contain
- Description of the components
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 5 : Contract Issues 1
- Project manager's responsibilities
- What needs to be covered?
- Background to multimedia contracts
- Refining the proposal into a contract document
- Agreeing how to work together
- Change management
- Stages of a project
- Responsibilities
- Does education work?
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 6 : Agreeing the Content
- Project manager's responsibilities
- The importance of content
- Whose role is it to define content?
- Scripting for multimedia
- What affects content selection?
- How to get content agreed
- General principles for establishing content
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 7 : Choosing the Platform
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Introduction
- Delivery platforms
- Delivery medium
- Hybrid delivery
- Wwb sites and server/browser balance
- Platforms for deveopment and testing
- Summary
- Recommended Reading
Ch 8 : Selecting the Media and Techniques
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Constraints
- Matching the media to the message
- Video - background factors
- Video
- Audio
- Computer and video graphics
- Text
- Where does this leave us?
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 9 : Interface Design
- Project manager's responsibilities
- What is an interface?
- Interface design
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 10 : Contract Issues 2
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Introduction
- Costing rights and clearances
- The legal issues
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 11 : Selecting the Team.
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Introduction
- Identifying the skills needed
- Skill set profiles : core team
- The extended team : skill sets
- General support
- Specialist support
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 12 : Team Management Principles
- Project manager's responsibilities
- The project manager and team culture
- Management styles
- Teams: lessons learnt so far
- Successful managers of creative teams
- Characteristics of successful teams
- How the organisation can affect team management
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 13 : Audio Asset Production
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Managing asset production
- Managing audio
- Before the session
- The background
- In the studio
- Working with your voice-over artist
- What can i ask the studio to do for me?
- Mono, stereo and surround sound
- Tricks with sounds
- Digital basics
- Aliasing
- Doing it on hard disc
- Editing
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 14 : Video Asset Production
- Project managers responsibilities
- Managing asset production
- Basic principles of video
- Composite video television standards
- Component video
- Blanking and time code
- In the studio and on location
- Shooting an interview
- Preparing for editing
- Videotape machines
- Cassettes
- Video discs
- Digital formats
- Copying tapes for use in multimedia
- Digitising video for multimedia
- Compression
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 15 : Graphics Asset Production
- Project manager's responsibilities
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- Colour
- Drawings
- Bitmap or painting
- Composites
- 3D modelling and rendering
- DPI, bit depths and other pecadillos
- Using what when and why
- Anti-aliasing
- Look before you leap
- Computer graphics and video graphics
- Animated graphics on the web
- Asset management
- Image compatability and quality
- Proof reeding (!)
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 16 : Integration
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Multimedia fusion or confusion
- Authoring versus programming
- The authoring tree
- Stages
- Bugs
- The demo factor
- The jigsaw
- Risky business
- The link between software and the client
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 17 : Rights, Copyright and Other Intellectual Properties
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Rights and wrongs
- In the beginning
- Some rights models
- How to negotiate
- Jurisdiction
- ...... and finally patents and data protection
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 18 : Testing
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Multimedia and testing
- What is testing?
- What is a testing strategy?
- Insights into software testing
- Final sign-off
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 19 : Archiving
- Project manager's responsibilities
- Archiving : the rationale
- What needs to be archived?
- Closing the project
- Summary
- Recommended reading
Ch 20 : Marketing and Marketing Research
- Project manager's responsibilities
- The relevance of this chapter
- What is marketing?
- Why are these concepts important?
- Marketing and new media
- Who are the customers?
- Know the competition
- Know your strengths
- Know the market
- Know how to reach your customers with information and products
- An introduction to market analysis
- Summary
- Recommended reading
- General recommended reading for developers
... and what's next?
Glossary
Index
Selected References from the Book
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