5. Improvements to the multimedia website/product to help meet the product’s aims.
The first improvement I would make to help meet the product aims is that I would include some writing on the right hand side of the Multimedia Presentation because it would be good when looking at each part of the car as it would be nice to have some information about the car part selected. Another improvement that needs to be made to the Multimedia Presentation is that they sort out the way that you go back as it took me some time to realise that you had to press the word car to go back so they need to make a clear button for when you want to go back the original graphic of the car. The final improvement that needs to be made to this Multimedia Presentation is that the sound effects need to be different for each different part of the car that you press.
Review 1
Type of multimedia product: Commercial Advertising Multimedia Presentation
Website address (URL) or other product details: DVD Rom
Name of organisation/product: MSTAR (new media agency).
1. Good features of the multimedia product:
The first good feature of the Multimedia Presentation is that it is very well laid out as you have your titles at the top of the page where they are meant to be, and the information is in the middle of the page where it is meant to be. This is a good feature because this is a conventional and tried and tested lay out for a Multimedia Presentation which is clear and easy to use. The second good feature of the Multimedia Presentation is that when you hover your mouse over one of the titles at the top there is a graphic which starts to move on the right which adds some movement to the Multimedia Presentation. This is a good feature because it makes the Multimedia Presentation look more professional and a better looking complete product. The final good feature is that there is a contact page so it is easy to contact them if you want them to do work for you because it includes there e-mail and phone number. This is a good feature because it enables you to contact the people who crated this Multimedia Presentation if you want to as this is an adverting Multimedia Presentation.
2. Not so good features of the multimedia product:
The first not so good feature is that there are no animations in the whole Multimedia Presentation which makes it very dull and non interesting. This is a not so good feature because it makes the Multimedia Presentation dull and none interesting which makes people not look at there Multimedia Presentation for long so they wont get people contacting them about there product. The second not so good feature is the fact that there are no sound effects at all with this Multimedia Presentation so once again it makes the Multimedia Presentation boring. The is a not so good feature as it shows a lack of effort put towards making this Multimedia Presentation as there is no animation or any sound in the Multimedia Presentation. The final not so good feature of this Multimedia Presentation is that in the headquarters section and the portfolio section there is no information at all in them, this is especially bad with the portfolio section as it is showing that know one has hired them to do any work as they have no work in the portfolio section to show for it.
3. Product aims and target audience
Aim(s) of the product:
The main aim of this product is that it is to advertise the company MSTAR’s work by showing there skills in making Multimedia Presentation. Another aim of the Multimedia Presentation is that they are showing how good there products are by doing a good Multimedia Presentation. Finally they are showing what products they can do and give information about this.
Target audience of the product:
There is a basic target audience for this product is any other business which needs a Multimedia Presentation at a high and professional standard doing for them in there business. There is hence no specific age target audience as it is just for a business man who needs a Multimedia Presentation doing for them.
4. Links between pages/screens/slides
5. Improvements to the multimedia website/product to help meet the product’s aims.
Well with this product there is one underlining aim with this product and that is that it has to advertise the company MSTAR which make a selection of product. I don’t think that they do this very well with this Multimedia Presentation as it is quite basically boring as they need some form of video and they need more animation. Also I don’t like the way they have published this Multimedia Presentation when it is not finished as the headquarters section and the portfolio section were not finished.
Review 3
Type of multimedia product: Interactive educational Multimedia Presentation
Website address (URL) or other product details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.swf?startPosition=
Name of organisation/product: Science Interactive Body
1. Good features of the multimedia product:
To begin with I think this product is very well done as wheat they do is that they have four sections of the body which are organs, skeleton, muscles and nervous system which means there is a wide variety of body parts. This is a good feature as it makes the product almost addictive as all you want to do is fill in all the body parts to every section. The second good feature to this Multimedia Presentation is that you have to put all the parts of the body in the right place in the body and rotate so it is right to where it is meant to be. This is a good feature because it is a good educational tool as what it does is it makes you think about where each body part goes in the body. The final good feature is that this Multimedia Presentation is very good at giving information as when you are trying to find where each body part is going is that it gives information about what the body part selected does and gives hints where about they go. This is a good feature because what this Multimedia Presentation is trying to do is that is be an educational tool and by getting people to shown where each body part goes does this but what it also does is that its giving this information which is making it more of an educational tool.
2. Not so good features of the multimedia product:
With this Multimedia Presentation I found it to be really hard to find bad points with it as it is so good and professionally done but I found some minor problems. To begin with in this Multimedia Presentation there is no music or sound at all in the whole think which makes it a boring Multimedia Presentation. The reason this is a bad feature is that for it to be an educational tool it needs to keep the interest of the people who are using it and some sound effects would help this. The second not so good feature with this Multimedia Presentation is that some of the links don’t work from the section where you are putting in the body parts in her is a section which says for example heart fact file and when you click this it doesn’t work. This is a not so good feature because it is showing people that there Multimedia Presentation doesn’t work in some areas so it may not be any good and may not work in other areas. The final not so good feature with this Multimedia Presentation is that it is very hard to rotate and get the organs in the right place and then when you press on the hint button it isn’t very useful as it only tells you roughly where to put it. This is a not so good feature because you can see that people will get very frustrated with this and will quit out of it so people won’t use the product for long and they won’t come back to it.
3. Product aims and target audience
Aim(s) of the product:
To begin with the basic aim of this Multimedia Presentation is that for it to be an educational tool for people. The way in witch it does this is it try’s to educate you about each of the body parts, as it wants to teach you where the body parts go in the body , and to teach you information about the body parts and the body parts uses. Finally it is trying to be a fun educational tool to keep people interested so they keep wants to fill it in and learn the parts of the body.
Target audience of the product:
For this product there are several target markets, to begin with there is younger children in the age of 6-12 who would find the Multimedia Presentation good at them trying to find where the body parts go. Then there is you teenagers in the age range of 13-18 who would use it to learn about the body in detail and then use it as a fun revision tool as it has all the information.
4. Links between pages/screens/slides
5. Improvements to the multimedia website/product to help meet the product’s aims.
What I will say to begin with is that this Multimedia Presentation is very good and it is very hard to find improvements but there are a few minor improvements. The first improvement that should be made to this Multimedia Presentation is that there should be some sound or music in the Multimedia Presentation as without this they might not be meeting there aim of making it fun as know one likes to do something that’s meant to be fun in silence. Secondly there is the issue that some of the links don’t work so the improvement is that they get all the link to work as if there are links that don’t work then you are making the Multimedia Presentation seem unfinished which is something that know one wants in there products. The final improvement that needs to be made is that they make it easier to find the correct rotation for the body parts when you are placing them as it can become very frustrating that you cant find where the body parts have to go, this then might lead to people not spending much time on it so it wont really educate them.
