The Team

A typical team for developing multimedia for CD-ROM, DVD, or the Web consists of people who bring various abilities to the projects. Multimedia production team consist from:

1. Project Manager
   • A project manager’s role is at the center of the action and responsible for the overall development and implementation of a project as well as for day-to-day operation.
   • Project manager is the person who put this budgets, schedules, creative sessions,


2. Multimedia Designer
   • Graphic designers, illustrators, animators, and image processing specialists deal with the visuals.
   • Instructional designers are specialists in education or training and make sure that the subject matter is clear and properly presented for the intended audience.
   • Interface designers devise the navigation pathways and content maps.
   • Information designers structure content, determine user pathways and feedback, and select presentation media based on awareness of the strengths of the many separate media that make up multimedia.


3. Interface Designer
   • An Interface designer provides access to the “media” part of multimedia, meaning the text, graphics, animation, audio, and video.
   • The result of an interface designer is the elegant simplicity of a multimedia title screen, the ease with which user can move about within a project, effective use of windows, backgrounds, icons, and control panels.


4. Writer
   • Writer creates character, action, and point of view and they also create interactivity.
   • They write proposal, they script voice-overs and actor’s narrations, they write text screens to deliver messages, and they develop characters designed for an interactive environment.
   • Writers of text screens are sometimes referred to as content writers. They glean information from content experts, synthesize it, and then communicate it in a clear and concise manner.
   • Scriptwriters write dialog, narration, and voice-overs. Both often get involved in overall design.


5. Video Specialist
   • Video specialist to be responsible for an entire team of videographers, sound technician, lighting designers, set designers, script supervisors, gaffers, grips, production assistant and actors.
   • A video specialist needs to understand how to shoot quality video, how to transfer the video footage to a computer, how to edit the footage down the final product using a digital nonlinear editing system (NLE), and how to prepare the completed video files for the most efficient delivery on CD, DVD, or the Web.


6. Audio Specialist
   • Audio specialists who make a multimedia program come alive, by designing and producing music, voice-over narrations, and sound effects.
   • They perform a variety of functions on the multimedia team and many enlist help from one or many others, including composers, audio engineers, or recording technicians.
   • Audio specialists may be responsible for locating and selecting suitable music and talent, scheduling recording sessions, and digitizing and editing recorded material into computer files.


7. Multimedia Programmer
   • A multimedia programmer or software engineer integrates all the multimedia elements of a project into a seamless whole using an authoring system or programming language.
   • Without programming talent, there can be no multimedia.


8. Producer of Multimedia for the Web
   • Website producer is a new occupation, but putting together a coordinated set of pages for the World Wide Web requires the same creative process, skill sets, and teamwork.