Be versatile with multimedia skills!

Multimedia is about integrating two or more types of media, such as text, images, animated graphics, audio, video and interactivity to generate, present and access information. Multimedia professionals learn to work with all these elements and then, they may specialise in one of these mediums. They may work as content writers, graphic designers, animators, sound specialists, digital video editors or programmers.

With the growth of technology, multimedia specialists are being absorbed by virtually every industry. At one hand there are exciting new developments such as bio feedbacks for gaming enthusiasts where they can smell things in virtual reality environment and on the other hand, integration of multimedia can make mundane things seem fun.

Eligibility

Those who want to enter into the field of multimedia can opt for a degree or diploma programme in the field. The curriculum for multimedia programmes usually cover graphic design, web design, 2D and 3D animation, and architectural visualisation. Besides, specialised multimedia courses in advertising, architecture, gaming, fashion, graphics, mobile and television are also available after 10+2.

 Career Prospects

Multimedia professionals may enter into linear or non-linear type of multimedia careers. Linear multimedia projects may include animated advertisements where recorded animation videos are played in pre-decided formats. Special effects in movies can be another example of linear multimedia tasks.

There can be multimedia presentations that can be linear or just go in a pre-decided format; or non-linear that can include some interactive elements. This interaction can be menu-based where users can choose from pre-decided options to see different versions of the presentation or live interaction, where presenter directly communicates with the audience.

Non-linear or interactive multimedia is increasingly becoming popular with the net-age users. Exciting and thrilling video games are largely interactive in nature, where the game moves on based on the actions of the players. Similarly, you can find multimedia kiosks at museums, libraries, ATMs, hospitals and at airports, where public can easily access information or punch in their details through user-friendly graphical interfaces of touch-screen monitors, or even on their mobile phones. Video conferencing uses multimedia too.

Teaching and healthcare through multimedia is rapidly gaining popularity and more and more engineers, architects, and fashion designers are looking to multimedia for easy and creative renderings of their designs and visualizations. There is no dearth of opportunities for multimedia professionals these days, with the starting salary usually around Rs 12,000 to Rs 15,000 per month.