❤ Project Management in Multimedia Design and Production ❤

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ok..untuk entry kali ni, i would like to share the knowledge that i've learnt during my class. in the last class my lecturer talk about the 'Project Management in Multimedia Design and Production'. So the key that had been highlighted in line with this topic are as below:

a) Multimedia Development Team

b) Multimedia Project Management

c) Project Management Process

d) Project Management Tools

These 4 key issues quite important actually to be discuss. i'll try my best to explain it based on lecturer's note plus with lecturer's explanation and together with my understandings. 

Multimedia Development Team

Firstly, we talk about multimedia development team. For the first before we start to plan and everything, we need to form the team first. this what we called multimedia development team. the question is what is the criterion for this kind of team? there a re several criterion that should take into account to form this kind of team. the first is skills. in order to ask people or invite people to join our team, we need to consider his/her skills. what are the skills that he/she have? why we should consider this? because in produce any multimedia courseware especially, we required a creativity for a different activity that we are planning to do. sometimes we are required a high level of technical expertise in order to develop the courseware. so, that is the reason why we look for the variety of skills that have by expert. For example, for screen design, we should have a person who have a skill to design how the courseware will look alike which meet the need of the user. that is what we called as a designer. it is smiliar to the other task. so, here we could say that each task/job that had to be performed required its own skills. we cannot simply do the things without any skills and toward the end it doesn't meet the user of our courseware. actually, the necessary skills needed in the team are project mangement, content, strategy, programming, architecture and design. how much people u need in ur team it is depending on ur company project. maybe there is a project which require too much expertise and they should have a big team. in the team, it should has an expertise which related to their area. for development team, it is better to have project manager, content area specialist, instructional designer, multimedia developer/programmer, and last but not least is media specialist. Each of this position has their own role and job to do. 

For example, the role of the project manager is to attain or set the project objectives. It should have the objectives so that our project still in line with the purpose. as a project manager, he/she should plan carefully so that his/her team could deliver the right product in the right time as in scheduled and at the right price so it will be able to have by user. he or she also should monitor the other peoples in the team, always do a meeting to follow up the progression of the project and so on. 

As a content specialist, he/she will play his/her own role. here, people who is in this position should analyse the content which is suit with the target user. he/she will provide every written material to the project manager directly. but it is in term of digital format such in in MS Word or etc. he/ she also will review the content which had been designed so that the content is still there and could be understand by the user. that is important. content specialist is important especially if we want to develop learning courseware. they will provide and evaluate frequently so that it is parallel with the learning objectives. 

While the role of an instructional designer is to cover on the learning strategies and also the design of the content. with the content that had been provide by the content specialist, designer will try to transform it into a reasonable chunks. here i could say the information design would be transform into interaction design. so here, as a designer he/she should understand on how to organize, manage and deliver the info or content to create effective learning environment. 

And last is multimedia developer or in short we called as programmer. his/her role is able to integrate multimedia elements into one programs. sometimes his/her job is to create media element to be used in the project and so on. 

Multimedia Project Management

When we talk about project management, the issues raised are costing (how much we need to higher expertise, time needed to complete the project), timing (when the project's deadline, progress and so on), and about quality. it is such a subjective to specify but it might be quality in term of content, media, graphis and so on which related to the courseware project. 

Project Management Process

The process of project management is divided into 4 phase which are;

• pre-production
• production
• post production
• delivery

for the first phase which is pre-production, we should analysis, planning and design. in term of analysis, we should analyse who is our target user, what is the purpose of the project what kind of multimedia or software that we are going to use and how to organize and manage this project and etc. all these question should take into consideration at this phase. 

in production phase, the matters we will look into are:

• content research
• interface design
• graphics development
• animation development
• audio recording
• video production/editing
• authoring/programming

while, for post-production, it is more to evalute the product after complete, test the content, get feedback from client, revise back the product, and last is put in into a packaging for the purpose of distribution. 

Project Management/Planning tools

what are the tools that we need for the project management? usually we need what we called a gant chart. the sample of gant chart i already post in the previous entry. the gant chart is important since it will shows us the timeline of the project progress. it is also used as a benchmark for the project management. this is important so that all the team members know when their task to start and should end. Sometimes we have PERT which is PROGRAM EVALUATION REVIEW TECHNIQUE. so the tools is project management is depends on the what the project manager wants since he will decide the task period after meeting with a team members. 

so, the class was postpone to the next week with the new topics. so until here that i can share with u all on the knowledge that i've gained form my previous class. the new info i'll update later..stay tunedd!!!!!