Introduction+to Digital+Media


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Digital media refers to any type of information in digital format including computer-generated text, graphics and animations, as well as photographs, animation, sound and video. The media landscape has changed forever. For media consumers, digitalisation has expanded the media usage options with a growing number of digital choices.

The purpose of this topic is to provide you with the knowledge and skills to examine and analyse different digital media products and their uses across a variety of contexts.

You will learn about:
 * The purpose of digital media such as e-music, digital newspaper, interactive TV and games
 * Types of digital media products such as desktop publishing magazine, newspaper, graphical design, audio sequences, musical compositions, animation sequences and video production
 * Data types for digital media products such as used in specific digital media products
 * Manipulation techniques such as cropping, rendering, special effects, time coding, sampling, morphing and tweening
 * Digitisation process of data types such as time grabbing, scanning, bit mapping, optical character recognition
 * Factors affecting the file size such as memory size, processing speed, colour palette, compression, sampling rate, frames per second
 * Display and distribution, i.e considerations include mode of delivery and intended audience
 * Project development- the process and techniques

**CLICK ON The Purpose of Digital Media** Example of Morphing technique