CH 9 Planning and Costing
CH 9 Planning and Costing
CH 9 Planning and Costing
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Introduction
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Stages of a Multimedia Project
Stage
Stage11
Planning
Planningand
andCosting
Costing
Stage
Stage22
Design
Designand
andProduction
Production
Stage
Stage33
Testing
Testing
Stage
Stage44 Four stages of a
Delivery
Delivery multimedia project
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Stages of a Multimedia
Project: Overview
• Planning and costing
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Planning and Costing
Target audience
Case Study
Product: A web site of an Italian café
Objective: Introduces tiramisu recipes
Target audience may be categorized as follows:
• People from Italy
• People from elsewhere in the world
• Experienced tiramisu cooks
• Inexperienced tiramisu cooks
Planning and Costing
A graphic template, the organizational
structure and the navigational system are
developed.
A time estimate, a manpower estimate
and a budget are prepared.
Time, money, and people are the three
elements that can vary in project estimates.
Planning and Costing
Critical Path Method (CPM) is used to
calculate the total duration of a project
based upon each identified task.
PERT
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Planning and Costing
Gantt Chart
Planning and Costing
Flowcharts
– provide a graphical
representation of how
the information within the
application is organized
and flows
– are used to
illustrate
interactivity
– can be modified as the
application evolves
Planning and Costing
• Storyboards
– are diagrams showing the layouts of all screens
– describe the content and sequence of each screen
– specify how multimedia elements are positioned on
each screen
Planning and Costing
• Organizational structure is the way in which
information is organized.
• Four main types of organizational structure:
– Hierarchical organizational structure
– Nonlinear organizational structure
– Linear organizational structure
– Database-driven organizational structure
Planning and Costing
• Hierarchical organizational structure
– Top-down approach
– Sets and subsets of information form a hierarchy.
– Information is chunked down from most important or
general to least important.
– Can be “broad and shallow” or
“deep and narrow”
Planning and Costing
• A deep and narrow
hierarchical
organizational
structure provides
deep knowledge on
a few topics.
Planning and Costing
• A broad and shallow hierarchical organizational
structure provides a little information on many
topics.
Planning and Costing
• Nonlinear organizational structure:
– Increasingly popular
– Large volume of short bits of information
– Sites that use internal search engines use databases.
– Examples: library, research, and e-commerce sites
ata
Containers
Planning and Costing
A site map provides an overview of the web site’s structure.
Testing
It is important to test and review a project to
• ensure that: