Monday, 28 February 2011
Work Scope
Last lesson and in my own time i was able to complete the work scope as best I could so in this lesson I will be looking over the existing scope work. The next step is for me to transfer the mock ups on to flash and start making it in to a usable site. I have most of the stuff necessary to start this.
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
New Project Started
Today we were given a new project in which we had to make a website for a recent movie, I chose Alice In Wonderland by Tim Burton. This was for multiple reasons the first is that obsessed with any thing Alice In Wonderland Related so have been to the cinema to watch it in 3D. The second was that Alice In Wonderland allows you to use many things that are very colourful and interesting, the last is that it had been out long enough to have a lot of images and products online. Firstly I started off by looking at the already existing sites so that I could get an idea of what they had done.
(http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/), this was the kind of site that I want to aim at myself that makes it seem like you are supposed to be in Wonderland. Next I looked up general images of Tim Burton's film and looked at the art work, I was fussy about what images I should use so spent a lot of time getting into my head how the site would look with different images as the background. In the end I settled with
as I wanted an image that focused on the art of wonderland rather than the characters.
My next task was to work out what I was going to use as the buttons so that they stood out from the page, I ended up looking up a lot of things that I thought would be a good idea but it ended up taking me a long time to find something that would stand out from the page but fit in with the theme.
Finally I managed to find some tea pots that stood out and fit in with Alice in Wonderland and then edited some "Drink me" styled labels to show what page each button went to. From this I was easily able to make all the other pages using almost the same format. For both the gallery and the products page I removed the background image and replaced it with a grainy black over which I had the menu title a picture of one of the characters, the reason for this was because I didn't think that placing the information over the top of the picture would be a good idea as that would be too much of a distraction. Similarly I didn't want to add too many characters encase it was too much of a distraction to the viewer. Also I made an entrance page that showed Alice looking down the hole that leads to wonderland to concrete the idea that it was supposed to seem like you are in Wonderland. Lastly I moved on to do some of the written work by starting both the schedule and the work scope.
(http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/), this was the kind of site that I want to aim at myself that makes it seem like you are supposed to be in Wonderland. Next I looked up general images of Tim Burton's film and looked at the art work, I was fussy about what images I should use so spent a lot of time getting into my head how the site would look with different images as the background. In the end I settled with
as I wanted an image that focused on the art of wonderland rather than the characters.
My next task was to work out what I was going to use as the buttons so that they stood out from the page, I ended up looking up a lot of things that I thought would be a good idea but it ended up taking me a long time to find something that would stand out from the page but fit in with the theme.
Finally I managed to find some tea pots that stood out and fit in with Alice in Wonderland and then edited some "Drink me" styled labels to show what page each button went to. From this I was easily able to make all the other pages using almost the same format. For both the gallery and the products page I removed the background image and replaced it with a grainy black over which I had the menu title a picture of one of the characters, the reason for this was because I didn't think that placing the information over the top of the picture would be a good idea as that would be too much of a distraction. Similarly I didn't want to add too many characters encase it was too much of a distraction to the viewer. Also I made an entrance page that showed Alice looking down the hole that leads to wonderland to concrete the idea that it was supposed to seem like you are in Wonderland. Lastly I moved on to do some of the written work by starting both the schedule and the work scope.
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Addictive Games
I find that the addictive games can either be something insanley fusterating that you wont leave the game until you have completed it or so easy that you wont stop playing because its something that you can.
Pac-Xon
Graphics:10/10, perfect graphic for the type of gaem as you arnt effected by them and really good graphics would not improve the game experiance.
Sound :Simple and almost exactly the same as the sound effects in pacman.
Game Play: 9/10 The levels are short but get increasingly harder, I think that the simplness of the game is good the only problem was you weren't always able to tell what each piece of food does.
Pac-Xon
Graphics:10/10, perfect graphic for the type of gaem as you arnt effected by them and really good graphics would not improve the game experiance.
Sound :Simple and almost exactly the same as the sound effects in pacman.
Game Play: 9/10 The levels are short but get increasingly harder, I think that the simplness of the game is good the only problem was you weren't always able to tell what each piece of food does.
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