Designing and Producing Multimedia Project

Which of these is not an advantage of creating detailed storyboards before beginning production?

• constructing the project will be easier

• less time is required in finishing the final product

• getting to the production stage is faster

• it is better suited to separate design and production teams

Which of these is not one of the listed types of organizational structures?

• linear

• hierarchical

• nonlinear

• recursive

The visual representation of a project that includes a table of contents as well as a chart of the logical flow of the interactive interface is often called:

• a storyboard

• a navigation map

• a master layout

• a workflow diagram

The method you provide to your viewers for navigating from one place to another in your project is part of the:

• script

• user interface

• storyboard

• depth structure

The generic term for any area of an image that can be clicked on is:

• a hot spot

• a storyboard

• an image map

• a rollover

An interface in which a user can click a button and change the approach of the whole interface is called:

• a prototype

• a navigation map

• a modal interface

• a site map

Having separate novice and expert interfaces for a multimedia program is generally not a good idea because:

• it tends to take up too much disk space or bandwidth

• novice users tend to get caught in the expert mode

• only a minority of users are expert; most users are caught in between and are frustrated

• most authoring systems are not capable of handling parallel structures

GUI stands for:

• General/Universal/Individual

• General Utilization Instructions

• Global Usage Imaged

• Graphical User Interface

The Macintosh and Windows GUIs are successful partly because:

• they enable cross-platform file structure

• their basic point-and-click style is simple, consistent, and quickly mastered

• they are highly customizable, allowing programmers to use program-specific keyboard shortcuts

• they tend to make the computer run more efficiently

Non information areas left intentionally free from visual clutter are often referred to as:

• negative space

• screen real estate

• advanced organizers

• white space