Feedback on my college website upon its completion, results may confer more adjustments for republishing??

Now that I have completed my website I am now seeking feedback to better it, and better understand the aesthetics when creating a successful website. I can already see a few major faults within the site, this feedback will likely pickup on these.

Ashley Churchill: This website is pretty cool. it looks very stylish and the button design(s) is a great idea. My only concerns though are the fact that the menu is still accessible when browsing in the sub-menus (e.g. you can click on the main menu buttons from the bottom of the downloads menu, as well as between selecting images if you're quick enough!) besides that, it's a great website.

Straight away Ashley has picked up on one of my major faults, time for some major revision on the site. Very useful feedback :)

Tom Taylor: The layers need to be sorted out but other than that it is very professional. I like the way that all the pages come up, and the transitions.

Louis Reed: No major faults noticeable apart from the one already mentioned, a slight bug with the image gallery, but the overall aspect of the website feels slick and robust. The masked homepage runs smoothly and appeals to the eye.

My feelings about the seriousness of these faults have been reaffirmed, I will no go off and attempt to fix these problems, many thanks to those of you offering feedback.

Research Assignment

All media companies nowadays take an in depth look into the targeting and interests of the audiences, trying to find out what they are interested in, what platforms for multiple media uses are they interested in, whether they are into some medias more than others. Target audiences could be into interactive Medias more than sit back and take in medias, for instance they would rather sit down and play a game creating their own outcome or sit down and watch a film where the story has already been set out. This research is very important to the companies as they wish to meet a wider audience as they can with their possibly multimedia products. Many companies make it big in one form of media and then feel they have done well enough to expand into another media or multiple Medias, take “Star Wars” for example, they started out purely as a one-off film acting as a kind of pretend serial drama aired on a Saturday afternoon, after audiences had enjoyed and taken an interest in the broadcast further development went into the making of other films and further story lines, that is why the “Star Wars” series started at episode four, from then on there was a great expansion into the film production for the company.

The main use of market research for companies is to allow the company and market to grow, gaining knowledge of the target demographic for adaptations to their products, thus increasing future sales and profit. Allot more information, some of it sensitive and private information about people and their interests is collected than people are entirely aware of, information is collected and stored and analyzed by market researchers to create their own thoughts about demographics and communities for the company to work on. Information is collected through the obvious and not so obvious ways, lots of information in today's industries is collected without the knowledge of the subjects providing the information, in fact the most useful information is likely to be collected this way because this way the people collecting the data can be sure it is honest and genuine.

Unit 1 Part 62-My Promotional Website for the film "127 Hours" - how its going

For my Web Authoring work I have had to create a flash website for a chosen modern film, I've chosen to promote the film "127 HOURS". I am steadily progressing through the production of the site, learning more and understanding more about flash every day. Using the multi SWF approach I load external flash movies all together with one main movie on the bottom (movie 0). All the others are loaded over the top creating two layers of flash movie.

The site has been divided into four sections, five if you include movie 0, movie 0 is the user interface and links to the other movies that will load over the top of movie 0. The other movies that are linked from the user interface are Cast, Downloads, Gallery and About. So far all the appropriate movies have been created they just have lots of room for improvement and need to be linked up properly. Each of the movies that are loaded up all have their own little tweens that show the personality of the website in its early beginner skilled look.

Once I've finished my website I will link a progress update again and post a link to download the site. Hope you look forward to the next report! :-)

Social Grading - Graded By "National Readership Survey" or "NRS"

The National Readership Survey are an organisation the helps business's and producers establish and specify target audiences. They do this by grading social and communal sects placing them into an order by the ranks in their occupations, classing them by their pay rolls/incomes. Social grade data is very important for industries to recognize and without it can find their sales lost.

The classifications are as follows: 

A : Higher managerial, administrative and professional.

B : Intermediate managerial, administrative and professional.

C1 : Supervisory, clerical and junior managerial, administrative and professional.

C2 : Skilled manual workers.

D : Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers.

E : State pensioners, casual and lowest grade workers, unemployed with state benefits only.

The organisation goes out and visits the subjects ranging fifteen years and above, this covers everybody in a chosen set for a particular product, for instance in a particular genre of book may be chosen to decide how popular it is say "detective". Then everyone that can be evaluated will be checked for their enjoyment in detective story's. Lots of qualitative data will be collected and then eventually interpreted into quantitative for the companies to use and if they inquire further they can access qualitative data.

Different products fall into different classifications and quite often more than one or two, for example the "Ferrari" range of products falls directly into the A and B classifications, though many others are just as much likely to appreciate their designs, they do not fall into the bracket that could afford such an expensive product.

Online Flash Game Review -Keyball

As part of my course I am to review Flash structured content, here I am reviewing an online flash game, currently the main use for flash at the moment is actually with online games for everyone who has access to the internet to play for free, but flash is finding more and more use on mobile devices in everyday useful applications.

The online game is "Keyball" and runs very smoothly and offers lots of fun, its strange movement only calls to make the game more fun, sliding around your little character trying to bump rather than kick the ball into the goal. This is essentially a one on one football game where you have an exaggerated bounce of any boundary or any object you come into contact with, sending flying from one side of the pitch to the other.

The game offers computer v person, person v person and computer v computer if your really that into it, three difficulties can be selected from, they are in ascending order "trainer", "Globot" and "Bioman". You also have the options to play between three different match lengths of time- two minute- five minute and eight minute so you don't have to finish your fun too quickly or you don't have to miss too much of the essentials you are learning in the lesson you are pieing. One of the big pros on this game is that it gives an amazing sense of 3D play because your character can rotate right the way round with out the feeling of any frame by frame action. Runs very smoothly and is all in all a very good and fun game and you can comfortably play it with a friend.

If you wish to experience this game you may, just follow this link: http://www.globz.net/globz3/swf/keyball/keyball.swf
Hope you've found this review interesting and hope you enjoy the game if you decide to play it.

My Badge

Hiya peeps enjoying the blog? I enjoy your feedback! Here is a badge that I created in Adobe Illustrator, it is an entirely vector based image and has been exported as a PNG to maintain all quality no matter what enlargement it goes through and to offer a transparent background.

Pixar Lamp Tutorial

The outcome of my tutorial lesson!

This video below was produced in Adobe After Effects, it is or was supposed to replicate the original vision of the "Pixar" company ident. With a few tweaks that make it massively different to the original "Pixar" ident my main aim was to produce something new and educational on my part! hope you enjoy :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIIwSfxtXB8