This comprehensive book is a practical, skills-oriented book for the producer, director, and writer of multimedia. Written with a professional orientation, this book teaches readers how to create multimedia faster, better, and less expensively. It also can act as a procedure manual for the reader's company. For any multimedia professional, in particular CD-ROM developers and publishers. Call-outs and boxed author comments explain complex ideas and concepts contained in the professional documents.
Numerous screen shots from real projects graphically illustrate concepts covered in the text.
Icons in the margin direct students' attention to specific areas of interest for the producer, writer, and director. Additionally, instructors will find a sample syllabus, discussion questions, suggested readings, lecture notes, and more. Case studies in Chapters 1 and 3 help to drive points home to students through real-life situations. Multimedia and the People Who Make It. Multimedia Is Interactive.