Developing Multimedia Application For Sri-lankan Foces

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Acknowledgement.........................................................................................................2 Objectives.................................................................................... ................................3 Targeted users’ background............................................................................................4 Targeted user’s requirements..........................................................................................5 Abstract...................................................................................................................... ..6 Concepts art...................................................................................... ...........................7 Character design.................................................................................. .......................13 Application structure................................................................................................. ....15 Storyboard........................................................................................................... .......16 Creative and unique features................................................................................. ........25 References............................................................................................... ..................26

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Acknowledgement I would like to express my gratitude to all those who gave me possibility to complete this multimedia application. I’m deeply indebted to my multimedia lecturer Jina Daluwatte of Asia Pacific Institute of information technology who gave the stimulating suggestions and encouragement help me in all the time of this project

I would like to thank Ms.Jina Daluwatte for her great support and guidance and support in the preparation of this multimedia application. Especially, I would like to give my special thanks to Microsoft imagine cup team and community who help me to advanced my creativity in multimedia application design

Sudantha Sulochana Gunawardena

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Objectives The main objectives of this multimedia application to give brief idea about the SriLankan armed forces and the civil war of Sri-Lanka. Many people may have various ideas about the armed forces in Sri-Lanka so this application will guide though the history of the civil war, How the Armed Forces liberated from the terrorists .also there will be include of the details about Weapons’ they used and war heroes. This application will be a very informative, interactive and educational tool for all the citizens of sri-lanka. Why we choose a multimedia application to spread this because it can be easily motivate the younger children and serve their mother land with pride

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Targeted users’ background The main target users of the multimedia application is mainly targeted to younger srilankan generation to get the right idea of the sri-lankan civil war and sri-lankan forces .but this application will be open to children and all the sri-lankan citizens to take the right idea of the sri-lankan war history and winning of the war. Many people may have many ideas about the armed forces; our target is to give fair idea about the sri-lankan war to the targeted users.

Also the sri-lankan forces is a much popular topic among the younger generation so we can take the right idea to them easily by a multimedia application

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Targeted user’s requirements User Requirements

The target users of this multimedia application may need some basic knowledge about how to interact with computer.

Software requirements

User will need following software and platforms to run this application •

Microsoft Windows XP or higher

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Adobe Flash Player CS3

Hardware requirements Use will need following hardware requirements minimum to run this application

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1 GB of physical system memory

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CD or DVD ROM

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Intel Dual core of higher possessor

Graphics and sound requirements

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Graphic card for better graphics quality, high end graphic card can provide user more application experience.

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3D Audio card and Surround Speakers to have more audio quality and sound experience.

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Abstract This multimedia application which is designed about sri-lankan forces , it uses a interactive way to navigate the user though the different sections in the application This application will give a basic idea about the sri-lanan force and civil war in sri-lanka The intro animation will guide the user though the history of sri-lanka and after that application is facilitated with timeline navigation, Information sections , and a interactive defense map and the narrating will be describe the important key points

Limitations of this multimedia application was that the information .this application may not include all the information about war but most of the key areas are covered.

However that after viewing and interact with these application users will be able to gain a good knowledge about sri-lankan civil war and sri-lankan forces.I hope that this application will maximally benefit the target audience

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Concepts art Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design idea, and/or mood of use in Multimedia applications before it is put into the final product. Henry Flynt . (1963). CONCEPT ART . Available: http://www.henryflynt.org/aesthetics/conart.html.[ Last accessed 23 May 2009.]

Text and animated text The main font will be Arial and color will be white and yellow I think that in a black ground while fonts will be more sharp and attractive. The main font will be used will be Arial and thoma. Because the Sri-Lankan Forces is a kind of serious topic it would be inappropriate to use fancy fonts in the application

Graphics Behalf of using real images i have used vector graphics to create this application because i think that vector graphics will be eye catching for the younger generation and will be more attractive .also things which are harder to implement in vector graphics will use real images for that .I mainly used Adobe Fireworks to design the vector graphics

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Color Schemes The main back color of the application will be black. and will use above related colors to graphics and texts’ thought of using dark colors because it will be eye catching and will be not irritating .

Figure 1 - Hex Values of Colors

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Animation

The Intro Animation The intro animation’s concept art which I seen in the credit animation of the Oscar award winning film “Slumdog Millionaire which is a 2008 British film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy .That animation was implemented using real videos and pictures using Adobe After effects, I tried to implement this animation to a Vector Flash animation as my intro animation of this multimedia application . The intro animation will be a 2D animation which shoes up from the history of sri-lankan civil war till the liberation .this will be a mix of text and vector graphics with only basic animations like fading and move in effects.

Figure 2 - Intro Screen Animation

Main menu animation

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The main menu will contain mainly 4 buttons which linked to the main sections of the multimedia application which are history timeline, liberation time line , war heroes and weapons .these buttons are embedded short video clips. These buttons will be come from four sides of the screen to the middle.

Butto

Figure 3 - Main menu animation

Time line Animation

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The time line animation will be common to both history and liberation sections .user can select the year or the date from the top time line bar and view the key notes about that year or the day. This will guide the user interactively though a timeline and helps users to understand the information in a more efferent way.

Figure 4 - Timeline Animation

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Interactive Defense Map animation

This section will guide the user though a interactive liberation defense map. the concept of this map is based on the map which you can see in the defence.lk which is implemented by ministry of defense in sri-lanka . The red masked area will shows the librated area and it will be reduced as the liberation continue and the red mask will be removed. Also the sequence of images which are related to liberation will be shown in the side

Figure 5 - Interactive Defense map

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Character design Character design is Pre-production sketches, drawings, and cells depicting preliminary character studies In this Multimedia application I use only one main character who plays his role as a injured war hero .The intro animation will be based on his story .He was injured in the war and send to a hospital, at the hospital he remembers the story.

Animated eye brows

Movable neck

Blinking eyes

Hands are rotatable

Figure 6 – character design

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Audio A War heroic music and songs will be used took most if the sound effects from Activision Call of Duty Modern warfare first person shooting war game and Call of duty World at War. Also i used some tracks from BnS’s “Lanka Matha” Album

Voice and Narration One of my friend who is in media filed has help me to narrate and the key points of the story and the intro animation story.

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Application structure These Multimedia applications have a following structure the first few seen (Intro animation) will be a sequence and from the menu onwards it will be a selection.

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Figure 7 - Application Structure

Storyboard Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity

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Creative and unique features This multimedia application will have some great unique futures which user can interact and navigate. Like •

The intro animation which shows the brief history and about libration

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Timeline animation which users can travel through the time to get the certain key information

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Section shows the information about war heroes

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Interactive defense map which users can see the liberation and interact with

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Easy navigation buttons and controls

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Provide key information about certain historical events

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Voice Narration and sounds

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References

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Ministry of Defense, 2009, Defense web, [Online], Available: http://www.defence.lk/english.asp [Accessed 15 May 2009].

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Military-Quotes, 2009, Military Cartoons, [Online], Available: http://www.militaryquotes.com/military-cartoons.htm [Accessed 13 May 2009].

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Vaughan, T. (2001) Multimedia : Making It Work, 5th Edition. McGraw-Hill. (ISBN 0072190957)

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Sri-Lanka Army. (2009). Greatest Victory in Our Country. Available: http://www.army.lk/. Last accessed [27 May 2009].

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IMDb. (2008). Slumdog Millionaire. Available: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/. Last accessed [27 May 2009].

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IMDb . (2008). Valkyrie. Available: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985699/. Last accessed [27 May 2009].

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MDb. (2004). Der Untergang. Available: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/. Last accessed [27 May 2009].

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