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Mission television project

You are an IT employee in a local advertising agency called Hookem. Your organisation has just been approached by a client who wants to use television advertising to promote a new product. The product is aimed at children in the 13-17-year-old age group. Your supervisor has asked you to prepare a report and present it to the next management meeting. The report must focus on the viewing habits of this age group.

Outcomes

This material addresses aspects of the following syllabus outcomes

A student:

H1.1 applies an understanding of the nature and function of information technologies to a specific practical situation.
H2.1 analyses and describes a system in terms of the information processes involved

Source: Board of studies NSW, Stage 6 Information Processes and Technology, Preliminary and HSC Courses (2007) http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/ipt-syllabus/

Tasks

Design a survey tool to collect television viewing data. Include a copy of this tool with your project. Also include details of your sampling scheme.

Conduct your survey. Include preliminary findings and statistical data in your submission.

Design and implement a multimedia presentation which will effectively communicate your results to the next management meeting.

Assessment criteria

The clarity, ease of use and validity of the survey tool.

The accuracy and clarity of the preliminary findings.

The effectiveness of the multimedia presentation.

Factors to be considered will include the use of appropriate graphics and interesting animation, the use of supporting sound and music and the clarity and accuracy of the information presented.

Multimedia systems project

You have been asked to create a multimedia system on one of the following topics:

• Menu for promoting your school in the front office
• Display for presenting Year 10 students with their options in the senior school
• Storybook designed for children under the age of 6
• Simulation of how a computer works.

In order to create this system, you need to consider how you are going to plan this project. You will need to reflect on the aspects already covered in the Project Work topic studied earlier this year. A small team should complete this project.

Follow these steps on the topic of your choice listed above.

1. Set out a plan of action for how you will create this multimedia system and communicate with others.
2. Identify the social and ethical issues that would need to be addressed in your multimedia presentation.
3. Understand the problem by creating a working model or prototype so that the problem can be clarified.
4. Decisions will need to be made and a feasibility study would need to be carried out. Questions to be considered include: Is it technically feasible? Is it economically feasible? Can we implement the system within a given timeframe?
5. A solution will need to be refined. The prototype will need to be refined and design tools will need to be used to ensure that the system will be solved.
6. The system now needs to be implemented and such items as how it will be tested and what method of conversion will need to be decided here.
7. To complete the system, you will need to test it to see if it works, evaluate how it works and maintain the system. In documenting this system, both the original project creators and anyone who is asked to maintain it.

Procedural questions

1. How will you plan your multimedia system?
   Creating a storyboard of how the system is expected to look will assist in planning. Also discussions with your group will enable all to participate and give input into this system. Also consider the layout you use, as this will influence the planning needed.
   
   
2. What needs to be considered in creating a multimedia system?
   • What data are used
   • How are they processed
   • How are they organised (storyboard)
   • How will you store and retrieve the data needed in the system?
   • How will you collect the data? Consider methods of digitising analog data.

A communication system project

Creating a flyer for parent teacher night

Zabdaz school holds a parent-teacher night 4 times a year and informs parents about it through a printed flyer.

The flyer is personally addressed to each parent/caregiver, and contains details of an agenda, as well as the date, time and location.

Activity

1. Using your own experience and knowledge, your knowledge of others in your team (or an informed guess), analyse the way in which the development of a flyer may be accomplished.
   
   This will involve analysing the system using the systems framework below, including a description of the purpose, information processes, technology, participants and information involved.

   

   Ref: Board of Studies NSW, Stage 6 Information Processes and Technology, Preliminary and HSC Courses (2007,page 14)
   
   
2. Use a diagram to show how information would flow through the system (this will later be refined into a dataflow diagram).
   
   
3. Select one aspect of this system and describe ways in which a particular technology could be used to better support the process involved. (i.e. a multimedia presentation.)