by Elaine England and Andy Finney

Introduction

• How to use the book and CD-ROM

Ch 1 : The Background : Multimedia and Projects

• What is multimedia?
• What is a multimedia project?
• Summary

Ch 2 : The Background : Multimedia and Project Management

• Multimedia- industry fusion or confusion?
• Is multimedia project management the same as project management?
• Organisational structure effects
• The project manager as team leader
• The role of the multimedia project manager
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 3 : Scoping a Project

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Your objectives
• Online interactive scoping questionnaire
• Offline scoping questionnaire
• Post meeting responsibilities
• Summary
• Online client-centred project scoping questionnaire
• Offline client-centred project scoping questionnaire
• Recommended Reading

Ch 4 : The Proposal

• Project manager's responsibilities
• The aim of the proposal
• What it should contain
• Description of the components
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 5 : Contract Issues 1

• Project manager's responsibilities
• What needs to be covered?
• Background to multimedia contracts
• Refining the proposal into a contract document
• Agreeing how to work together
• Change management
• Stages of a project
• Responsibilities
• Does education work?
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 6 : Agreeing the Content

• Project manager's responsibilities
• The importance of content
• Whose role is it to define content?
• Scripting for multimedia
• What affects content selection?
• How to get content agreed
• General principles for establishing content
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 7 : Choosing the Platform

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Introduction
• Delivery platforms
• Delivery medium
• Hybrid delivery
• Wwb sites and server/browser balance
• Platforms for deveopment and testing
• Summary
• Recommended Reading

Ch 8 : Selecting the Media and Techniques

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Constraints
• Matching the media to the message
• Video - background factors
• Video
• Audio
• Computer and video graphics
• Text
• Where does this leave us?
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 9 : Interface Design

• Project manager's responsibilities
• What is an interface?
• Interface design
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 10 : Contract Issues 2

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Introduction
• Costing rights and clearances
• The legal issues
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 11 : Selecting the Team.

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Introduction
• Identifying the skills needed
• Skill set profiles : core team
• The extended team : skill sets
• General support
• Specialist support
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 12 : Team Management Principles

• Project manager's responsibilities
• The project manager and team culture
• Management styles
• Teams: lessons learnt so far
• Successful managers of creative teams
• Characteristics of successful teams
• How the organisation can affect team management
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 13 : Audio Asset Production

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Managing asset production
• Managing audio
• Before the session
• The background
• In the studio
• Working with your voice-over artist
• What can i ask the studio to do for me?
• Mono, stereo and surround sound
• Tricks with sounds
• Digital basics
• Aliasing
• Doing it on hard disc
• Editing
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 14 : Video Asset Production

• Project managers responsibilities
• Managing asset production
• Basic principles of video
• Composite video television standards
• Component video
• Blanking and time code
• In the studio and on location
• Shooting an interview
• Preparing for editing
• Videotape machines
• Cassettes
• Video discs
• Digital formats
• Copying tapes for use in multimedia
• Digitising video for multimedia
• Compression
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 15 : Graphics Asset Production

• Project manager's responsibilities
• A picture is worth a thousand words
• Colour
• Drawings
• Bitmap or painting
• Composites
• 3D modelling and rendering
• DPI, bit depths and other pecadillos
• Using what when and why
• Anti-aliasing
• Look before you leap
• Computer graphics and video graphics
• Animated graphics on the web
• Asset management
• Image compatability and quality
• Proof reeding (!)
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 16 : Integration

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Multimedia fusion or confusion
• Authoring versus programming
• The authoring tree
• Stages
• Bugs
• The demo factor
• The jigsaw
• Risky business
• The link between software and the client
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 17 : Rights, Copyright and Other Intellectual Properties

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Rights and wrongs
• In the beginning
• Some rights models
• How to negotiate
• Jurisdiction
• ...... and finally patents and data protection
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 18 : Testing

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Multimedia and testing
• What is testing?
• What is a testing strategy?
• Insights into software testing
• Final sign-off
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 19 : Archiving

• Project manager's responsibilities
• Archiving : the rationale
• What needs to be archived?
• Closing the project
• Summary
• Recommended reading

Ch 20 : Marketing and Marketing Research

• Project manager's responsibilities
• The relevance of this chapter
• What is marketing?
• Why are these concepts important?
• Marketing and new media
• Who are the customers?
• Know the competition
• Know your strengths
• Know the market
• Know how to reach your customers with information and products
• An introduction to market analysis
• Summary
• Recommended reading
• General recommended reading for developers

... and what's next?

Glossary

Index

Selected References from the Book