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Multimedia 2338 City & Guilds assessment / revison links (full qualification)
Introduction
This page contains all of the assessment criteria for the full 26 week course option with links to relevant theory revision / lecture notes. This will help you with oral question and practical task assessment & revision.
You must also complete a portfolio.
Assessments questions and tasks
Unit 01 / Safety procedures
Practical Tasks
Identify the buildings safety representative
Remove the source of an accident (simulation)
Locate the first aid kit
Demonstrate how to activate a fire alarm
Operate appropriate fire extinguishers (simulation)
Carry out appropriate evacuation procedures
Contact emergency services (simulation)
Demonstrate cleaning computer equipment
Repair disc directories
Backup essential data to a storage device
Unit 02 / Project management
Theory Questions
Give 3 uses and locations of a multimedia project
Identify and detail required skills for a project
Identify and detail required equipment for a project
What is the role of a project manager?
What are the essential project roles
What are the essential development processes
What are the important issues of copyright?
What is moral copyright?
What is mechanical copyright?
Why must permission to use media be sought?
Practical Tasks
Create a project budget
Create a folder of bookmarks / favourite
Digitally identify an image file as copyrighted
Unit 03 / Computing systems & networks
Software Theory Questions
Explain units of memory & storage (bits, bytes etc)
What is screen resolution?
What is a driver (or extension)?
Explain native and interchange file formats
What are the ISO naming conventions?
Define the terms “internet” and “world wide web”
What is a browser plug-in?
What are caching and buffering?
What is meant by the term “data rate”?
Hardware Theory Questions
Give 3 types of interconnection
The primary reasons for installing an expansion card
What is the function of RAM memory?
What is the function of an internal hard disc drive?
Practical Tasks
Identify the correct port and connect a peripheral
Show correct installation of an expansion card
Demonstrate correct installation of RAM
Set the screen resolution
Create a shortcut to an often used application
Create a folder structure for a project
Download and install a system resource
Change the settings for a mouse
Locate, load, edit and export a x-platform data file
Demonstrate QuickTime plug-in installation and use
Unit 04/ Navigation structures
Theory Questions
Give 2 definitions of the term “Navigation Map”
Give 2 purposes of storyboards
What is an “absolute path name”?
What is a “relative path name”?
Explain “local project” &“remote project”
Practical Tasks
Demonstrate navigation between 3 project screens
Demonstrate linking to a remote location
Create a link which opens an email client
Create a “local” project folder structure
Unit 05 / Images
Theory Questions
Define the terms “ppi” and ‘dpi”
What is RGB?
Explain bitmap & vector images
What is the function of “de-screening”?
Explain the purpose of optimising (compressing) images
Explain the uses of a web safe palette
What is “adaptive colour”?
What is dither?
Why is a JPEG unsuitable for animation?
What is the function of an alpha (key) channel?
Practical Tasks
Create a vector illustration of a (bulls eye) target
Save the data file and identify it’s file size
Rasterize the data file & restate it’s file size
Connect a scanner to a computer system
Scan a litho printed image for a multimedia project
Demonstrate masking
Demonstrate contrast changing a selection
Combine anti-aliased text with an image
Optimise a bitmap image for a multimedia project
Demonstrate the creation and use of alpha channel
Unit 06 / Audio production
Theory Questions
What is Nyquist theory?
Explain the impact of bit depth on audio quality
What is “normalising”?
Why must audio be compressed for networks
What is an audio codec?
Explain 2 audio compression parameters
Practical Tasks
Demonstrate digitising a sound
Demonstrate trimming and editing a sound
Demonstrate optimising a sound for the web
Unit 07 / Video production
Theory Questions
What is a video codec?
Give 2 locations for a video codec
What is device control?
What are the PAL & NTSC formats?
What is a render file?
What is an EDL?
What are the 3 functions of Keyframes?
Practical Tasks
Demonstrate batch capture of video
Demonstrate video editing with audio & filters
Optimise a finished video clip for the web
Unit 08 / AV interface authoring
Theory Questions
What factors determine choice of screen size?
What factors determine choice of background colour?
What is the function of a grid in multimedia design?
What is a “style sheet”?
Explain the uses of 2 image file formats in a project
What does embedded mean?
What does linked mean?
Explain Real Time & HTTP streaming
What is “inbetweening”?
Practical Tasks
Demonstrate styling text (CSS) and controlling position
Import an optimised image into an authoring app and using appropriate techniques control its position
Demonstrate “importing” & controlling audio
Demonstrate “importing” & controlling video
Demonstrate timeline animation
Unit 09 / Creating AV interactivity
Theory Questions
What is a hyperlink?
What are the primary states of a hyperlink?
What are the primary user initiated mouse events?
What are the primary playback controls for audio?
What is a search engine?
Practical Tasks
Create a multi-state link
Create devices (buttons) to control an audio file
Create a 4 question quiz with feedback (or create some other interactive device or system)
Unit 10 / Publishing a project
Theory Questions
What is meant by “minimum system requirements”?
What essential info should a READ.ME file contain?
Give an example of a x-platform media file
What is the ISO 9660 standard?
What is alpha and beta testing?
What is meant by “synchronising files”
Practical Tasks
Organise a local x-platform project for CD or DVD
Burn & test a x-platform disc
Demonstrate specifying a remote web site
Demonstrate uploading
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Portfolios
To pass the qualification you must complete a portfolio in addition to the questions and tasks on this page.
Guidelines for full (26 week course) portfolios
How is assessment carried out?
City & Guilds assessments procedures