Internet-Related Multimedia Careers

Multimedia development is most often done by teams of people. Each team member brings an area of expertise to the project.

Research 3 multimedia careers. State their job descriptions, skill requirements and salaries.

Video Game Designer
* Job Description:

Video Game Designers don’t create games. They create detailed design documents. A design document contain descriptions of all aspects of an electronic game - mission, plot, rules, flow charts, sound, artwork, and special features. The design document is the blueprint used by graphic artists, sound designers, and programmers to create the software that results in the video game.

* Skill Requirements:

You have to know how video game design and development works, and experience as a programmer, artist, or producer helps. Most video game designers have bachelor’s degrees in English, art, computer science, or related areas.

* Salaries:

Video game designers work in small start-up companies as well as large multimedia corporations. Their annual salaries vary widely but are usually in the $25,000 - $75,000 range.

Computer Control Programmers

* Job Description:

Computer control programmers carefully plan and prepare the process of using computer numerically controlled machines to cut metal, plastic, or glass precisely, shaping a finished part or product. First, they review three-dimensional blueprints of a part. Next, they calculate the operations that must be performed on the workpiece. And finally, they plan the sequence of the tasks that need to be performed to produce the finished part or product.Computer control programmers must then turn the detailed plan of machining operations into a set of numerical commands for the computer numerically controlled machine to follow. After the program is written, the programmers check the programs to make sure that the machinery functions properly and that the finished parts and products meet specifications. Computer control operators then download the set of commands to the computer numerically controlled machine, position the workpiece on the machine tool, set the controls, and let the machine do the necessary cuts and other operations.

* Skill Requirements:

The National Institute of Metalworking Skills developed a set of skills standards for computer control programmers that have been adopted by a number of vocational training facilities and colleges. Classroom training includes computer programming basics. Graduates of these programs are certified by the National Institute of Metalworking Skills.

* Salaries:
Computer Control Programmers earn about $175200 a year.



Illustrators and Graphic Designers

* Job Description:

Illustrators and graphic designers are both in the business of creating original art to decorate or to convey information. Illustrators draw pictures for books, magazines, and other print materials, including greeting cards and wrapping paper. Graphic designers use art to communicate a message to a certain audience.Illustrators use light, shadows, and color to create two-dimensional pictures. Most illustrators specialize in a particular type of drawing. For instance, fashion illustrators work for fashion designers and draw sketches of clothing as it is being

* Skill Requirements:

All artists must have artistic talent, creativity, imagination, skill, and knowledge specific to the industry in which they work. Most people who enter the fields of illustration or graphic design hone their skills in a two-year or three-year post-secondary program—or preferably in a four-year bachelor's degree program. Computer graphics courses are now essential for job consideration in these highly competitive fields.

* Salaries:

ccording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, illustrators earn a median annual salary of $38,060. Salaried medical illustrators earn significantly more. The median income for a full-time medical illustrator in 2005 was $59,000.