Saturday 31 December 2011

Our video for drugs deadline

This is our final video for our campaign website, we didn't use our initial idea of watching the effects of the drugs, and just used a simple interview, we did this because we felt it was more formal and appealed to our audience more. we used cuts between shots to get close ups of our models reactions, showing nerves and anxiety that we originally wanted to show, but just did it in a different way.

Friday 30 December 2011

story board

this is our first draft with basic ideas of what we want our film to be like. having a young lad talking about his experiences with drugs, giving viewers an insight into the what life can be like. we had the idea that we would cut to scenes of him in action, stumbling over, once again, showing the effects of the drugs and why not to do them.

Thursday 29 December 2011

website photos

this is part of our working process section, showing some of the pictures that we used and some of our ideas of editing. when taking the pictures, we wanted to use a model that would reflect on our audience, helping them relate to the website and feel apart of it. some of our edit ides where making the black and white effect, showing how the drug makes you lose identity and health, signifying the danger of using them.

Wednesday 28 December 2011

work-in-progress

The page shows more of our work in progress, but having text and other ides compared to the last page, we wanted to create a text different to other websites so coloured the text ourselves using a wand to create a messy graffiti type writing. Again we used this technique to signify the ages that we were targeting, graffiti and messy writing being a common text used of those ages in modern day life.

Wednesday 21 December 2011

First Sketches and Analysis

These are the rough sketches I drew with Connor so we could agree on a basic layout for the site. All the pages follow the same conventional 3 column layout and this helps keep a consistency throughout the website. Having a consistent layout will make the website appealing for the visitors and makes it easy for them to navigate. We will be aiming to use will be blues and whites because they have connotations of calmness and relaxationand that fits with the message we want to send from our website and it would appeal to our younger target audience of 15-30. The only issue with these sketches is they can't really help us with what to put in the columns and how the text will look against the designs. They can only be used as a starting point for the design and I'm sure the site will keep developing as we go along. It's also good that Connor and I were able to agree on the design fairly quickly so we should be able to work well together on the assignment.

sketch 8

sketch 7

sketch 6

sketch 5

sketch 4

sketch 3

sketch 2

sketch 1

Tuesday 20 December 2011

Photography shotlist

This is a basic shot list explaining the types of images that I will be planning to use throughout my website, and the pages that they will be on.

Wednesday 14 December 2011

survey results

Survey results
This is my results from my survey,showing certain results from our survey. This is very helpful as it showed us what kind of ages look at certain websites, so from this information, we could pick a website that targeted the audience of 15-30 that we wanted.

Saturday 10 December 2011

This is the first part of my Survey

Survey
This is my survey used to get key information that would help me target my target audience, to do this I will use the information to collect an average for all ages and so that my website will match the information to target the audience.

Brief for main site

Monday 7 February 2011

school site layout

this was our first paper draft of our school website, picking a certain colour that will be our school colour and then using labels to explain our layout. on this page we used a layout that could cover a range areas such as text, images and videos.

school site brief

This is my edit of a photo on photo shop

This is a photo taken for my school site. I have used PhotoShop before at GCSE so I was able to use the magic wand to go round the outside of the image that I wanted and pressed delete to have have left the image that I wanted, after that I had the cropped image left, then I got an image of an american football and shrunk it to size so and placed it in position to look like we were playing American football. I think it looks good and I think my PhotoShop skills are going to help me build this site a bit more quickly.

Friday 21 January 2011

school site survey

This is our survey for school websites, getting resulted that would help us design a school website that fits the target audience of school kids, helping us chose specific layers and colours so we can make a website that fits all the conventions that our audience is looking for.

School website research

Website research
From this work, I learned that the layout, content and language used on a school website is very important, using colours that link to your uniform and also that you have to use language that sells the school to viewers, but most importantly I learnt that the layout has to be easy to follow and easy to understand when looking at it. this has helped me a lot because it as allowed me to have a basic idea of what my website should look like and the type of layout I should be using.

Monday 10 January 2011

Using a schedule

We'll use iCal to keep track of what we need to do throughout the project. This is an example here which shows how we can use it to keep track of pre-production, then production and post. We can complete a full version to cover the weeks we've been assigned then we can print it out and put it in our folders. Neither Connor or I are very organised so we will need to develop this skill throughout the project. I think I'm good at meeting deadlines but I sometimes find it hard to manage other people because they don't always want to work when I do. We both work too so we need to keep to our schedule to enable us to work together well and meet the set deadlines. We'll communicate with BBM and Facebook to talk about the details and re-arrange if we need to. So our schedule will very much be a working document.