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I have tried to access http://www.narnia.com/ but unfortunately i

was unable to view as i don't have flash installed on this specific computer. Now i cannot view this entire website because of it. Many people will come up with this dilemma, i should be wary of using large chunks of flash as it is obviously not accessible to all.

work arrangement

Arrangement that i hope is correct.

Comparing the two sites with each other, immediately you can see the difference in quality and effort. On the left is the news section of the bbc.co.uk website and is layed out in a far more user friendly way, It is constant throughout the site and the site must have over 500 pages, whereas, the website on the right only has the same repetitive annoying background constant throughout the site. The BBC website has a menu bar on the left for the primary resources and after you click it the secondary resources appear under the menu button you just clicked. The driving site has no navigation purposes and has way too much information on the home page and is trying to make everything stand out and grab your attention initially. The BBC website prioritises the information and gives you slightly larger writing for the headline to grab your attention and normally a picture to back it up with slightly smaller text to inform you and explain. The text the BBC uses is clearly visible on its softer background so ideal for people with visual impairments, whereas, the driving website has different colour, distorted and unclear

text that fails next to the BBC's constant approach.

BBC have a colour scheme that fits and is constant and compliments itslef, but not the driving website, oh no no no, this website has no colour scheme and is just text the creator has just placed on the site with no thought.

WILL FINISH LATER!

Bad website design interface.

http://www.drivingskills.on.ca/

This is a terrible choice of a website but a good one as well.

My first impressions of this site is not positive one. The thing that strikes me initially is the poor background and layout. The background is the same image that is probably about 100px x 100px but repeated throughout the homepage, It doesn't work very well as it draws your attention away from the text. The layout is poor because it doesn't look like a normal website which people would be used to as it doesn't really have a header on the page or incorporate a menu down the side or anywhere on the page and this website needs one! At the bottom of the page there is a series of links within text that make it unclear that there is links available for other pages. This will be difficult for somebody who is computer illiterate or colour blind as they would not understand that there are hyperlinks in the text to enable them to visit other pages of the website because it is unclear.

The graphics on this site are low quality and low res, these problems cause pixelation to the graphics not only causing the graphics to become nearly unreadable but also make the site look poor cheap. This is an advertising website to try and get people to come to their course but it doesn't appeal to me at all because of the cheap aesthetic quality and poor spelling and grammar, these simple mistakes make me thing that if the company don't take pride in their work why give them money? The spelling mistakes make the creator seem idiotic especially when

"No training system can ever make anyone perfect, BUT out program WILL improve any vehicle operators skills and confidence far beyond 10 %. We Guarantee it !!"

10% eh, that's not much to brag about!

The logo is also distorted and has been stretched considerably. The colour scheme also doesn't compliment each other. There are annoying scroll boxes with writing coming across which quite frankly look like 12 year old girls' piczo sites (a very professional look). Overall this site gives a very bad first impression and website are obviously supposed to give off good first impressions.

How many blogs would a blog writter write if a blog writter doesn't enjoy writnig blogs?

Blog off.

Today i have been writing a report about legal constraints in interactive media - sounds exciting i know but really it isn't, seriously, it really isn't exciting.

Random Acts

Acts that can affect a designer.

Obscene Publication.

• There is no guidlines e.g no actual written law, it is mainly opinionated by how many complaints are gained from the publication and if it falls into the obscene publications acts - "An Act to strengthen the law for preventing the publication for gain of obscene matter and the publication of things intended for the production of obscene matter."
• Obscene publication is for example - inapropriate imagery which can include images of death, brutal violence, gore, swearing etc.
• Punishment for breech can include being sued heavily which can result in bankruptcy and loss of everything if you are a ltd company.

Data Protection Act

• It is the law to keep personal data safe to anyone that handles such data.
• Info that is held is personal but you are allowed to know your own details that are held.
• Personal details can be anything from e-mail addresses to home addresses and passwords to bank details.
• Tax records are kept for years though so taxman can assess income etc.
• Very harsh fine and a prison sentance.

Computer Misuse Act.

• Illegally downloading software and using un liscenced products can result in being sued by the liscence holder.
• Hacking other peoples computers for details and personal information.
• Fine and a prison sentance.

Disibility Discrimination.

• If a website or any other type of interactive media output source is hard to read or if colours contradict each other or are too similair then people with a visually impared disibility are being discriminated against. If there are no subtitles to a tv show then that is discriminating against deaf people. If a placement of a poster or sign is too high that a person in a wheelchair can't see it clearly then that is discriminating against that person. Specially made keyboards have been produced so that people that may be disabled in the hand that can't use a mouse or a normal keyboard sufficently have an alternative which is not discriminating. A website may need an alternative for large text so that a dyslexic or partially blind person can see it sufficently.

Racial Discrimination

• A picture that promotes racism or if it offencive in any way will be classed as racial discrimination etc.

Interlectual Property

• Is about protecting your work in copyright or trademark. It takes effect as soon as you record a design in a tangible form it is automaticaly copyright to you. You are not allowed to copy someones work as it will be copyright to them or a video or image, it is only illegal if you use it for a gain, either in commercial, personal or for currency.

Researching Interlectual Properties

www.ipo.gov.uk

The Intellectual Property Office can help you get the right type of protection for your creation or invention. This website also says what an IP is, it is created when an idea takes some tangible form., inv IP can mean a brandention, design or other kind of creation and it can be legally owned.

Unit 111 Brainstorming possible questions for student interview

Brainstorming possible questions for tutor interview

• What is it like here?
• Is this course enjoyable?
• Are the facilities adequate?
• What do you look to gain out of this course?
• Are you glad you chose this course?

Possible questions to ask a student during an interview, i will choose when i come to interview i am happy with them all.

Unit 111 Brainstorming possible questions for tutor interview

Brainstorming possible questions for tutor interview.

• Is art and design a good area to gain a career in?
• What qualifications can you gain from the course?
• What sort of people should apply to the course?
• What courses do you run?
• What is the pass rate?
• How long are the course?
• Why pick this course?
• What is your role in art and design?
• What skills can be learnt from this course?
• Who is the course aimed at?
• Where does this course lead?
• Do students enjoy the course?
• Where have past students gone after completing this course?

These are possible questions i can ask a tutor, i could use many of the questions above and will pick when it comes to the interview.

Unit 111 storyboard research

Here is the stephenson college promotional video whic i have storyboa

rding the first 30 seconds of i have done this so i can understand storyboarding promotional videos better.

Unit 111 Project Proposal

I propose to make a promotional video for art and design in stephenso college for a section of DGTV. It will contain clips of the art room, clips of the college clips of students working and interviews with tutors and students alike. The target audience will be school students looking for further education in art and design and college students looking for a new course to further their career or to start a career in the art and design curricular, parents may also look at this video to see if their child would benefit from enrolling here and to see what they will be getting upto. The age range would be from age 16+ as a GCSE qualification is needed and adults can join, parents may also be interested to see what we're about. I will produce the video for DVD and on a web player.

5 Shot rule

I must remember the 5 shot Rule

1. Hands
2. Head
3. Over The Shoulder
4. Long Shot/ Wide Angle
5. Creative

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/film/tipsandtools/videoshootingguide/tool/1.2.2.shtml

Mind Mapping

Here is my mind map for College Tv promoting Art + Design.

Unit 111 Video Production

Today Mr Liddicott kindly produced a brief for our class.

I have started my brief today and have researched promotional advertising videos. I have found one for stephenson college here -

http://staff/courses/leisureAndTourism/BTECNatMultimediaArtDesignAnimation/LM/BTECNationalMultimedia/ignore_me/Unit%2024%20-%20Audio%20Visual%20Production/College%20Vid/College%20Vid.htm

I like the style of this promotional video and i think i could re-create this to a high standard but just in the art room. I like the idea of taking shots on the way to the art room from the college entrance to show how the college looks as it is modern and impressive. Shots in the artroom of people working and of peoples work. Interviews with teachers - "what is you role in the art department?", "what can this course offer?" and "Why pick this course?". Compile the film into clips of work, interviews, stills of the building and art room.

Video starts with the stephenson college logo scrolling across the screen and then it appears in full smaller in the centre and then dissapears slowly into a shot of the college entrance.

BBC 3 creates it's own ident.

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk - A website showing TV-Idents from decades ago through to the most modern ones, this is a brilliant website and i shall use it to gain inspiration for when i create my own tv idents and program.

BBC3 launch which means a launching of a brand new TV IDENT.

This ident which represents bbc3 only is a completely different layout from any other, it has been created in 3d modelling software and has created its own characters which are 'blobs' these characters interact which each other but not in english, they interactions are based on movement and expressions that are recognised by the audience. These characters are humorous and entertaining.

Deaf signing experiment

Here is my deaf signing version of a program. I had difficulties removing the blue screen from hadley as he was wearing white and i felt i could do better, I simply just recorded a movie clip with video camera and layered it to appear where i wanted it to on the final movie. Unfortunately the chroma key tool didn't work very well with hadley so i recorded a new video with a different actor, I changed the scenery by lowering the blue screen and putting a spotlight behind the blue screen i was able to remove the blue screen from around the actors body effectively. I used a garbage mat aswell to remove the majority of the blue screen as john didn't move around much and wasn't required to.

3D Studio

I modelled a 3d studio in carrara and recorded john from a distance so it appears that he is walking in a studio, i modelled a desk seperately and layered it on the studio so it appears a desk is built in to the 'appearing real' studio. I chroma keyed as usual to remove the blue background and this time i used garbage mat to enable myself to remove the lights and real studio as i recorded from a studio.

Virtual Studio

Here is my virtual studio test, I used Adobe Fireworks to create a studio in vector format. Using layers in Adobe premiere pro i mannaged to layer a background, desk, header and video footage.

I used the same technique as before with chroma key to remove the blue screen, Unfortunately the blue table i used refelcted blue onto the paper and the chroma key removed the reflection causing part of the paper to be transparent. Chroma key was unable to remove all of the blue around jimmy so it would have been more effective to have used a backlight to give sharper edges.

2nd December - Testing Blue screen

To create this video I filmed a fellow student being 'himself' in front of a blue screen and lighting.

I used a blue screen so that i can effectively remove the background and super impose a part of the video ontop of a background that wasn't there when i recorded the video. I used Adobe Premiere Pro for this as it is very effective for editing videos. To remove the blue background i used an effect built in on premiere pro called Chroma Key which can be found in 'Video effects' to use this effect i simply dragged the effect into the video layer. To edit the effect i simply went to 'effect controls' tab and eyedropped the colour i wanted to remove which is blue, I used a blue shade that was mid tonal so that it would pick higher and lower shades of that colour equally and not take colours from the videoed character. I also altered blur to try and keep edges on the characters body free from feathering.

Now the blue background has been removed a image or video can be imported onto a lower layer so where the blue screen is removed the foreground video appears to be on top of the video or image that wasn't there when i filmed the footage. I then rendered the video out in Windows Media Player format at 500kb to ensure a speedy upload that doesn't take up too much bandwith. I then uploaded the video to this blog. Ta da.

Analysis:

The student that i filmed was wearing innapropriate clothing for this shoot, because his clothes were a colour that is to close to blue and this made it hard for me to be able to remove the blue background without removing parts of the clothes. I couldn't remove alot of the blue on one shot because i would have removed the suspects clothing (not in a nudist way.... thankfully).

I chose these backgrounds as they match what the suspect is doing, he is special afterall.

In future i shall make sure whoever i am filming is wearing clothing is not close to the clour of the background (blue).

2nd December - video production

This morning we split into groups to decide about our roles in our class College TV station and to decide a name. First of all we Mind mapped in groups possible tv programs that we could produce, we collated the two groups' work and every individual student had to pick their desired program to create. Jimmy was very late so he picked last and didn't really know what was happening. After we decided on programs; We had another class discussion and came up with possible names for our college tv station, we had multiple names that we could use and in our class. As a class we narrowed it down to a few 'appropriate' names and then formed a survey to ask fellow students and teachers around the college in pairs. Smiley and myself compilled a survey and found that 'Dead good TV' and 'The big S' were the favourites. The entire class collated their results and we found that as a class the surveys resulted in 'Dead Good TV' being the most popular and also as a class we decided to shortern the name to 'DGTV' so it is more appropriate.