Multimedia bsc Exam 2000 SOLUTIONS Setter: ADM CheckerACJ Additional Material: SMIL Language Description Sheet Answer 3 Questions out of 4 (a)What is meant by the terms Multimedia and Hypermedia? Distinguish between these two concepts Multimedia---- An Application which uses a collection of multiple media sources e.g.text, graphics, images, sound/audio, animation and/or video Hypermedia--- An application which uses associative relationships among information contained within multiple media data for the purpose of facilitating access to, and manipulation of, the information encapsulated by the data 2 MARKS---- BOOKWORK (b) What is meant by the terms static media and dynamic media? Give two examples ofeach type of media Static Media-does not change over time, e.g. text, graphics Dynamic Media -- Time dependent (Temporal), e.g. Video, sound, animation 4 MARKS--- BOOKWORK (c) What issues offunctionality need to be provided in order to effectively use a wide variety of media in Multimedia applications? Your answer should briefly address how such functionality can facilitated in general Multimedia applications The following functionality should be provided Digital Representation of Media ---Many formats for many media Capture: Digitisation of Media--- special Hardware/Software Creation and editing ---assemble media and alter it Storage Requirements ---significant for multimedia Compression ---related to above and below, ie can save on storage but can hinder retrieval Structuring and retrieval methods of media ---simple to advanced Data BaseMultimedia BSc Exam 2000 SOLUTIONS Setter: ADM CheckerACJ Additional Material: SMIL Language Description Sheet Answer 3 Questions out of 4 1. (a) What is meant by the terms Multimedia and Hypermedia? Distinguish between these two concepts. Multimedia ---- An Application which uses a collection of multiple media sources e.g. text, graphics, images, sound/audio, animation and/or video. Hypermedia --- An application which uses associative relationships among information contained within multiple media data for the purpose of facilitating access to, and manipulation of, the information encapsulated by the data. 2 MARKS ---- BOOKWORK (b) What is meant by the terms static media and dynamic media? Give two examples of each type of media. Static Media – does not change over time, e.g. text, graphics Dynamic Media --- Time dependent (Temporal), e.g. Video, sound, animation. 4 MARKS --- BOOKWORK (c) What issues of functionality need to be provided in order to effectively use a wide variety of media in Multimedia applications? Your answer should briefly address how such functionality can facilitated in general Multimedia applications. The following functionality should be provided: - Digital Representation of Media --- Many formats for many media - Capture: Digitisation of Media --- special Hardware/Software - Creation and editing --- assemble media and alter it - Storage Requirements --- significant for multimedia - Compression --- related to above and below, ie can save on storage but can hinder retrieval - Structuring and retrieval methods of media --- simple to advanced DataBase Storage