Multimedia is media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity) to inform or entertain the (user) audience. Multimedia also refers to the use of (but not limited to) electronic media to store and experience multimedia content. In fine art it is a synonym for traditional mixed media as well as technological new media. Rich media is also a synonym for multimedia.

The word 'multimedia' is also a pleonasm as media is the plural of medium, hence it is a double plural. The term "new media" better describes the concept.

New media may be broadly divided into linear and non-linear categories. Linear active content progresses without any navigation control for the viewer, such as a cinema presentation. Non-linear content offers user interactivity to control progress, as used with a computer game or in a self-paced computer-based training. Non-linear content is also known as hypermedia content.

The various formats of technological or digital new media may be intended to enhance the viewer's experience, for example to make it easier and faster to convey information, or in entertainment and art, to transcend everyday experience.

Enhanced levels of interactivity are made possible by combining multiple forms of media content. Online rich media is increasingly becoming object-oriented and data-driven, enabling applications with collaborative end-user personalisation on multiple forms of content over time. Examples of these range from multiple forms of content for web sites (like photo galleries with both images and text updated by users), to simulations whose events, illustrations, animations or videos are modifiable, allowing the rich media "experience" to be altered without reprogramming.

This is some of my test work in the audio/video domain. It is only a hobby for me, so please consider the quality of what you see here as a beginner's work.