3.6+Multimedia+&+digital+media

=3.6 Multimedia/digital media= Multimedia/digital media involves the use and integration of media (for example, text, images and graphic elements, animation, sound and music, and video) to create digital products that are available online or offline. Multimedia/digital media raises questions about a range of impacts, issues and solutions that the ITGS student must investigate, including copyright, intellectual property, and current practices and policies used to grant permission for use.
 * Introduction**


 * Data collection (opt1 | opt3)**
 * Primary and secondary data
 * Multimedia file formats: for example, text formats, audio formats, video formats, presentation formats, image/graphics formats
 * Policies, copyright, citing sources, Creative Commons, licensing and watermarking
 * Digital rights management (DRM)

Text (opt1 | opt3)
 * Components**
 * Text-processing software
 * Formatting: for example, page layout, fonts, headers and footers
 * File formats: for example, PDF, RTF, TXT
 * Typography

Graphics, images and animations (opt1 | opt3)
 * Software types: for example, albums, animated, 3D, bitmapped, vector, photo editing, photo casting, simulation
 * Bit depth, colour depth (grayscale, shades of gray, millions of colours)
 * Layers, grouping, divisions, alignment
 * Resolution, pixels, dots per inch (dpi)
 * File formats: for example, JPG, GIF, TIF
 * Computer-generated imagery (CGI)

Audio (opt1 | opt3)
 * Audio-editing software, podcasts
 * Digital audio: for example, MIDI (musical instrument digital interface), MP3 (MPEG-1 audio layer 3), MP4 (MPEG-4 part 14), WAV (waveform audio format)
 * File formats: for example, MP3, MP4, WAV

Video (opt1 | opt3)
 * Video-editing software, vidcasts and special effects (for example, morphing, transitions)
 * Digital video: for example, AVI (audio video interleave), MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), video CODECs (coder-decoders)
 * File formats: for example, AVI, MOV


 * Integrating the components** (opt1 | opt3)
 * Software types to house and display the multimedia components: for example, word processing, desktop publishing, presentations, web pages

Interactive multimedia, slideshows and websites
 * Applications and online tools used for creating and making available interactive multimedia, games, presentations, slideshows and websites
 * Use of scripting in creating web pages (for example, HTML, JavaScript, URL links to online media)
 * Integration of online tools