Re: multimedia degree at UTS

Joshua Graham Pitcher ((no email))
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:47:33 +1100 (EST)

> >Video production? Fine if you want to work in a video production house, which
> >is where multimedia studios farm out their video work to. Same goes with audio.
> >
> >Even then, it's going to be a crap job. Face it, if you aren't designing
> the content
> >you are converting someone else's bitmaps, cropping someone else's audio,
> moving
> >someone else's sprites. And the people that can do this are numerous.
> Multimedia
> >grunts are a dime-a-dozen thanks to the number of design students coming
> out with
> >Director and HTML experience and their jobs are boring and they aren't paid
> that well.
> >And by the time your friend finishes his degree they will be paid less.
> >
> >What you should do is say, out loud, "Multimedia is the desktop publishing
> of the 90s.
> >Every weiner and his dog is doing it. Badly." and look for another career
> path.

If everyone is doing it badly, maybe a few people doing it very goodly won't
get paid that badly after all.

And what's all this "you're just fine tuning other peoples stuff" nonsense? As
most designers know, the difference between good design and bad design (in
visual media anyway) is not content, but layout. Literraly the position of
the copy (or graphic) on the page (or screen). As you said, any idiot (even
me!) can produce multimedia with some basic tools, but it takes someone with
outstanding design skills to produce outstanding multimedia. And that person
will be paid very well for their talents.

I think a degree which mixes design discipline with computing skills would be
valuable indeed.

> >
> >However, there is a shortage of programmers. And you can be paid very well.
> Get a copy
> >of Director. Spend an afternoon learning Lingo. Hunt down Director info on
> the net
>

Yeh just go and buy "The Idoits Guide to C" and in ten minutes you'll be a
better programmer than any Com Sci graduate ever!!

If I've missed the point, Flame away...

Josh.