Multimedia is the seamless integration of text, sound images of all kinds and control software within a single digital information environment. Multimedia has a chameleon - like ability to pretend to be man thinks. In designing on application you have the freedom to use so many disparate media types and techniques that it can be a challenge to understand which one's are relevent for a perticular type of project.

Animation, sound and pictures can help to attract your viewer to the screen on the one hand and make the most tedious of help screens interesting on the other. The skills you need when working in multimedia production include project management and cost control, video and audio editing, text and image manupulation, plus the need to be able to integrate the disparate elements in a meaningful and appropriate way.