Uses and features of multimedia products

Linear Interactive

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As a example of linear multimedia product I will use PowerPoint about old mule.

Linear

Use/purpose

Features Audience Advantages Disadvantages Comment

It’s purpose is to educate and tell people a story about old mule

that was fighting very hard to

stay alive and he never gave

up

This Product is very simple and straightforward, It’s easy to find next parts of the story and understand what author tries to tell us. That presentation has in my opinion ugly Word Arts and very simple images, probably from the internet, but it does it’s work. There’s one animation included in this multimedia product which will help younger audience to develop their imagination.

The audience in my opinion is range of 6-10 years old kids that are still

learning how to survive in our

world. This story might be very

helpful for them to select their own lifestyle.

Biggest advantage of this product is

that it is very simple, co young

humans can understand

everything that author is trying to

tell them.

Next advantage that I can see is that author has

put some images, that are going to

help young people in imagining the

story in their mind.

First disadvantage that I can see in this multimedia product is that images are not accurately cut

and fit into this slideshow and whole

product looks underdeveloped.

Next disadvantage that I found in this

product is that titles are not removed

from the top of each slide and whole

design is very dark, that may make

reading a bit more difficult for the

audience.

In my opinion this slideshow is working for it’s purpose very

well, but author could do it much better

than now. I think that this multimedia products is ugly

because of inaccurately cut and fit images and also

very dark background. If the

target audience is, as I presumed, 6-10

years old kids, then it may be way too dark

for them as young people should see

everything in bright colours what helps them develop their

imagination.

As a example of Interactive multimedia product I’m going to use game: “Grand Theft Auto IV”

Interactive

Use/purpose

Features Audience Advantages Disadvantages Comment

This product’s purpose is to

entertain.

This game has very high quality, professional and outstanding high resolution textures, which are supposed to look similar to what we can see in real live. The story presented in this multimedia product is interesting and gives a player a lot of fun during the game. Audio was recorded separately and then added to the code of that game to make it sound as realistic as it’s possible.

The audience is any person over 18 that looks for

some fun.

It gives us lots of hours of fun game

and interesting story.

Graphics is on very high reality level.Sounds are very high quality and

realistic. The story is

interesting to the end.

This game has a lot of side quests which adds fun to

original game.

Gameplay is limited, so after finishing current story we

have nothing to do.Map is also limited, so we can’t access any more places than given map.It incudes lots of swearing, sexual

things and violence.

I think this game is one of the best versions of GTA, because of it’s

driving system and high quality graphics.

Kids should not be allowed to play his

game as they would learn all about violence and

swearing included in game. Anyway this game is great and interesting story

makes it fun to play for a long time.