Corporate Multimedia Presentations

Cost Estimation for a Multimedia Presentation

To estimate the multimedia presentation cost, we first need to estimate its size and key to this is knowing how many screens the presentation will have, how much programming is involved, and what features are needed.

Here's a simple reckoner to help you do this:

Step 1 - Estimating The Runtime of Multimedia Presentation

How long do you think your presentation needs to run for? 5 mins, 10 mins, 30 mins, an hour?

Allow 100 words for every runtime minute. So a 5 min presentation will be 500 words, while a 30 min presentation 3,000 words, and so on.

Step 2 - Estimating the number of Screens in Multimedia Presentation

You know roughly how many words your presentation needs. Now you're ready to estimate how many multimedia screens will your presentation need.

A typical multimedia screen holds 50-80 words, sometimes less.

If you pack in more words than this, you'll leave very little room for pictures, and this would make it look cluttered and un-impressive.

So if from Step 1 your script is 500 words long, then divide by somewhere between 50 to 80 and you'll see that you need approx 7-10 screens.

Use the same calculation, a 3,000 word script will need 40-60 screens.

Step 3 - Estimating Other things that need to be integrated into the multimedia presentation:

Once you know the approximate no of screens you need, consider whether you need any animated sections, quizzes or tests or assessments, or video clips.As these require additional programming.

You'll also need a Main Menu, and designwork.

Consider also how many sections your script will have. Each one of these will require a sub-menu.

If you want your screens to convey audio messages apart from simply present written text and graphics, then you'll need Voiceover too.

Upon providing this information our multimedia experst/team would be able to derive realistic price estimate.

Step 4 - Summarising your Estimate for the Multimedia Presentation

If you've followed the above, you should be able to be more specific in explaining your requirement.