Multimedia is like the meeting place for text, pictures, video and sound. It uses different types of media togive off information. Different sectors of the industry are text, audio, still images, video, animation and interactivity. There are 3 main purposes of multimedia, educate, entertain and inform.
Educate: Multimedia is used to educate people on things about the world and can be used to help explain things better. Inform: Multimedia can inform us of many things that we like to here about. Entertain: Multimedia is used to entertain people by using many different forms of Multimedia.
There are many major industry bodies and associations of Multimedia: http://www.aimia.com.au/
Multimedia links with many other different industries. Multimedia is apart of many things like entertainment, sport, education and promotion. Multimedia relates to things like music, gaming, film and animation, the web and many more things. Multimedia relates closely to industries that promote themselves on the web and advertise on the TV. Industries use the different types of Multimedia to make their pages or advertisements interactive and interesting.
Economic and social significance is very important in Multimedia. The social side to Multimedia has been improved by the web. A large number of chat rooms where you can talk to people, interact with people using web cams and send things to people have developed and are used for social aspects everyday. The web also has a very large economic aspect to it that is continuing to grow and improve. People are now able to do banking over the internet and organize things like finances all on the web. Some companies depend on the internet as their way of promoting and advertising their businesses. Television is also a form of Multimedia that plays a part in the side of economic. Advertisements are always being put on television to advertise different companies and events.
