week 8 -sim pin,alvin,canaan

There are many steps in the process of making multimedia. This process is one of the project planning. Project planning is important because there are some tasks like building blocks of project management and pre-requisites must be completed before other begins. The steps in the process of making multimedia included Idea Analysis, Pre-development, Prototype Development, Alpha Development, Beta Development, and Delivery.

The first step in the process is Idea Analysis. Weight your idea against the feasibility and cost of production and delivery. Through the whole project, you need to organize the project to deliver your purpose and message. After that, make a draft for the project by using note paper and scratch pads to write down the idea. In this step, you need to maintain balance between purpose and feasibility by dynamically adding and subtracting multimedia elements. You must plan your time management and money for the project also.

Then you come into the step of Pre-development which you need to define the project goals and skillset needs, create content outline and prototype on paper, and also position in sales and marketing. You need to list down the multimedia elements and content material which you need to leverage your project. However, in prototype development, you need to build screen mock-ups, design content maps, design human interface, and develop story or message. When you finish these step, you need to test the prototype.

After that, you come into Alpha Development and Beta Development. These are the last steps before you deliver your project. In Alpha Development, you must detail the storyboard and flowcharts, finalize story scripts, and produce the multimedia elements. For example, video tape, music, documents, photographs, advertisements and others. Besides, hardware and software which available for the development has been chosen also. Thus, in Beta Prototype, you must distribute to limited tester list, respond to bug reports, prepare user documentation, prepare packaging, develop gold candidates, announce to press and PR lists.

After all those steps, you can deliver your project. When you deliver your project, you must prepare the technical support, install sales team, replicate gold master, hold launch seminar, and ship product.