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Careers in multimedia
If you have aesthetic sense (creativity), if you can read and write, and if you have a genuine interest in computer technology and applications, you can look out for a successful career in multimedia.
Who gives the touch of elegance and dynamism to your Website? Who makes the movies so spellbinding with effects that make you sit through for a couple of hours or more immersed in it? Who drags your attention to the television with potent and eye catching ads and programs? To a great extent, the multimedia professional does the job today.
What is Multimedia?
Multimedia involves computing and audiovisual technologies to fuse video, audio, text, graphics, animation etc in a meaningful way. It combines all these elements to create a real life experience.
Multimedia offers promising careers
Multimedia is still in its infancy and the awareness regarding its career prospects is very less. However there are promising career opportunities in the field.
The Internet has opened up a plethora of openings for multimedia professionals since multimedia can bring in tremendous dynamism to the medium. Today Web design and content production industry has a lot to do with multimedia. Industries like television, advertising, publishing and so on too demand multimedia professionals for their CD-ROM development, games and Website development etc.
Some positions for multimedia professionals
Animator
The animator has to produce animation to illustrate the text. They provide life, spirit and motion to the inanimate. They give life to the ideas of the author and the designer. A good animator should have computer graphics skills and also training in animation, which today comes as part of the multimedia courses.
Web Designer
There are bright prospects for Web designers today. To be a Web Designer, you should be proficient in HTML, DHTML, FrontPage and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Knowledge of computer based design tools like Adobe Photoshop and Web design programs like macromedia Dreamweaver and scripting languages such as Perl, VBScript and JavaScript would be a welcome addition.
Sound technician
It is for the sound technician to blend sound with the rest of the information. To cater to this requirement, the multimedia training institutes have made audio editing and techniques, a major part of their courses.
Graphic artist
No one would deny the fact that graphics add life to the pages online as well as offline. Graphics are works of art and the graphic artist contributes them. He takes care of the layout and design aspects of the page too. The graphic artist should have expertise in software like Photoshop, which can help him in his work.
Video Technician
The visuals are very important. However visuals will be appealing only when it matches text. The video technician has to see that the visuals are appealing and appropriate. In addition to the other multimedia skills, the video technician has a thorough understanding of digitizing video.
The different fields
Now you have some idea regarding the career prospects of multimedia. Here is a list of the fields where multimedia professionals can look for jobs.
Advertising
Posts for the multimedia professional: Creative Support Professionals, Modeling Consultants, Studio Managers, Artists and Visualizers, etc
Film making
Posts for the multimedia professional: Special and Visual Effects Professionals, Set and Costume Design Consultants, Animators etc
Television
Posts for the multimedia professional: Audio and Video Specialists, Software Editors and Mixers, Visual Effects Designers and so on.
Print and publishing
Posts for the multimedia professional: DTP specialists, Creative Publishing Professionals, Layout Artists, Designers, Editing Professionals, Graphic Artists etc.
Multimedia authoring
The diverse sets of media objects have to be organized into an effective application using an authoring program. Trained multimedia professionals are in demand here.
CD-ROM authoring
Today educational institutions and companies go in for interactive CDs to get and give information in an easily retrievable and appealing manner. So the opportunities for multimedia professionals in this field are increasing. The multimedia professional distributes multimedia data into CDs.
Multimedia professionals would also find openings in fields like fashion designing, Interior designing, product designing etc where creativity is called for.
What does a course in multimedia basically teach you?
Every course has a syllabus and it is not different for multimedia courses either. The syllabus would differ from one institute to another. However here is a list of what all are basically taught when you attend a multimedia course.
The basics of computers and the operating system, utilities, how to work with illustrations and visuals, fundamentals of design and effects, page layout creation, animation and painting. Now to add dynamism to your work, you are also taught how to work with video and audio, 3D Modeling and Animation and also Multimedia and CD-ROM authoring. You have to be a thorough professional and so you have to learn Digital photography and Virtual reality concepts, morphing and warping, terrain modeling, Internet technologies, HTML, Web Page Designing, media compression, Java fundamentals etc. Since Web is the most promising field some institutes teach Java programming and scripts, server technologies, DHTML, and CGI scripting with Perl.
What do employers look for?
Multimedia is a new industry and it is evolving. Different companies may describe the job titles differently. There are no set rules. Once you join the company as a multimedia professional, have a clear idea (ask questions to clear your doubts) as to what is expected of you.
Just doing a course in multimedia and having a certificate does not qualify one for a job. As has already been said, creativity is the factor that helps you do a good work. In addition to that, a multimedia professional should keep constant vigil of the software that come up to help him in his work, he should have a genuine interest in computer technology and applications, he should be able to cope with the changing demands of the customers, he should have a sense of the preferences of people and he should have good interpersonal skills since he will be working in a team.
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