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Enhancing Communication Through Use of Multiple Media

Media is all around, there are multiple forms of it- Multi-media, get it?

Pictures
Pictures are usually effective in media such as advertising. Pictures are used to show the actual image of an item or person. The only problem with pictures is that they can only show one perspective of an item or person at a time.

Color
Even in the old days there was color, and it hasbeen used in all forms of media except for radio. In the 50's color began to appear in television and films. Graphics have just started to be used, though, because computer have just recently become popular and affordable for domestic people.

Motion
Motion is used in forms of media such as films, and advertisments on television. It enhances the personal interest of viewers by drawing them in with movement interaction.

Graphics
Graphics are mostly used in advertisements on television and some new films. Graphics are eye-catching designs that draw in people by their looks.

Music
Music is used in almost all media: Films, advertisements, Television advertisements, television and the radio. Music draws people in by having a nice beat or tempo, or lyrics that reach the listeners

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunshine State Standards 6-8

Language Arts/Language

Standard 2: The student
understands the power of
language (LA.D.2.3).

Objective 4: Understands how
the multiple media tools of graphics,
pictures, color, motion, and music
can enhance communication in
television, film, radio, and advertising.

Amusement Park Activity

Media - How do amusement parks use multimedia
to advertise?

 

Amusment Park Trivia

Did you know... The first Ferris
Wheel stood 264 feet high, had
36 pendulum cars which carried
60 passengers each

 

 

Vocabulary

Media- A means of mass
communication, such as
newpapers, magazines,
radio, or television.

Films -A coating of magnetic
alloys on glass used in
manufacturing computer storage
devices, otherwise known as a movie.

Graphics - A pictorial device used
for illustration, as in a lecture.
A graphic display generated by
a computer or an imaging device.

Music - The art of arranging sounds
in time so as to produce a
continuous, unified, and evocative
composition, as through melody,
harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

Links

Using Visual Aids- The how-2 on
creating visual aids