Issues

Each of the types of media and their special characteristics;
Analog devices that provide multimedia storage/playback;
Methods of capturing multimedia information including monitoring, selection, preview, recording, cleanup, correction, compression;
Characteristics of human sensory systems and perception of multimedia information (e.g., psychoacoustics);
Representation schemes for each media type and for combinations of them;
Interplay of multimedia information and computer file and operating systems;
Standards, interchange, and problems with loss and translation.