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stages:
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Clarifying your ideas before talking to the designer.
Whether you need a presentation
for a business conference, a brochure for your products or an education/training
CD-ROM you will need to think about the shape and structure of your
information.
Creating a map is the first
process in the making of any CD-ROM. Going through the process of
creating a map for the design will clarify how you set out your
company message and will inform the layout and presentation of that
message. Preparing material for a multimedia message on disc requires
quite a different set of parameters than a similar project going
to print.
The process of mapping a
CD-ROM will not only set out the physical map that a user will follow
when viewing and listening to the disc, but will also focus the
order of different graphics and text, whether that text be voiced
or on screen.
The first stage to decide
is whether you are going to have a main presentation and what form
that will take. This is followed by deciding on a number of static
pages and a main menu from which the viewer can navigate the complete
disc.
The main presentation can
run for as little as a few seconds up to thirty or forty minutes.
The length is dependent on the quality of the graphics and the quality
of the audio if the presentation or brochure is voiced. Opening
presentations normally last between one and six minutes. If the
opening presentation is overly long you may lose the attention of
the viewer. It is best to think of the opening as the film trailer.
It is good if it is punchy, precise and not over detailed. Essentially
it is an introduction and overview of your company and its main
products.
These
are just a short sample of the notes we give a client
before embarking on the early stages of a cd-rom production.
Open
pdf document:
Project Preparation
Guidelines 1-w.pdf
For further details or to
ask any specific questions about a project
you or your company has in mind please e-mail:
info@pete-townsend.com
www.pete-townsend.com
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