Assessment series 1- critical review

- 15% total

- 3 individual submissions

- submitted in workshops 2-4

Submit to your tutor in hard copy.

You must keep a copy of submitted assessments.

Overview:

In this series of assessment items you will deconstruct an existing multimedia work and, in so doing, become explicitly aware of how various media are used to effectively achieve outcomes for a specific target audience.

Objective:

After completing this series of assessments you will understand how text, graphics, video, sound and animation are used in an effective multimedia product.

You will then be able to apply this understanding to the design of you own project in assessment series II.

What are you required to do?

After the first lecture you need to choose an interactive multimedia work that you wish to deconstruct and critically analyse in terms of its effectiveness.

The multimedia work should include at least three of the following media: text, video, animation, still images, sound and should be interactive.

Some examples of suitable multimedia works are: game on a Smartphone, educational product on a CD ROM, encyclopaedia on CD ROM, website, game on a console such as wii or Nintendo ds.


Using this chosen multimedia work you will complete the following assessments:

 

Description

Mark

Due

Item 1

Complete assessment template 1.docx
Identify the genre, purpose, audience and objectives of the chosen multimedia work

5

Beginning workshop 2

Item 2

Complete assessment template 2.docx

Critically discuss the use of text/still images in your chosen work.

5

Beginning workshop 3

Item 3

Complete assessment template 3.doc

Critically discuss the use of video/animation/sound in your chosen work.

5

beginning workshop 4