Evaluation screen based 2

I was really looking forward to this project, being able to learn new skills and new software. One of the main paths I wanted to follow after finishing University was in the digital industry. I quite like the idea of designing polished websites. Because I was learning new software I knew it would be difficult from the start, but I didn’t anticipate the amount of problems I was going to encounter.

I really wanted to try something different, a website that had never been done before, which would stand out from all the others. I chose to do a box because I was inspired by a quote I had heard time and time again from my tutors, that ‘we are the package.’ The reason we were on this course was to acquire the relevant skills to set us up for industry, that we were trying to sell ourselves. I felt that this was a strong concept, but by the end of the project the way I finished was a little bit rushed. I put this down to my lack of organizational skills under pressure.

To push myself a bit more I decided I was going to try learning ActionScript 3.0. In the previous screen based unit last year we used ActionScript 2.0 and after getting to grips I found it pretty straightforward to use. I knew as long as I had enough tutorials in 3.0 I would be ok. But I found out the day before the deadline I had hit a brick wall. I think this was voidable if my time management was a little better. I left it to close to the deadline to be doing extremely technical problems.

Another problem was that while I had been spending a long time on researching ActionScript 3.0, I wasn’t leaving enough time to record what I had learned. I think if I had recorded this in my sketchbook and time planned a bit better then I wouldn’t have been in the stressful situation I found myself.

During the project we were given tutorials in how to use Dreamweaver. Unfortunately half way through the learning process, our tutor Neil was ill, so we had Lee to help us learn the program. I don’t feel as if my learning experience was fulfilled because we went off the point of learning Dreamweaver, and instead were shown how to use flash catalyst. Even though it was an interesting program and a look into the future at how web design could be shaped, it wasn’t the software we should have been learning at the time, which confused the point of the unit a bit for me.

Having finished this unit now I regret not taking the decision to use the extension given to me. If I had taken it, it would have given me the opportunity to sort myself out with organisation and time management skills. I wish that I had a better experience of learning Dreamweaver as this could have helped with my ideas generation for the unit.

ActionScript 3.0!!!!!!!

SUCKS!

btn_shoe.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadImage);

function loadImage(event)

{

var imageLoader:Loader = new Loader();

var theImage:String = "images/graphic/test.jpg";

var imageRequest = new URLRequest(theImage);

imageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);

imageLoader.load(imageRequest);

function onComplete(event:Event)

{

addChild(imageLoader.content);

imageLoader.content.x = 267;

imageLoader.content.y = 213;

research

I got this awesome book today called 'web design: flash sites,' having a read through it there was a few sites which had something to do with cardboard boxes, their logos and signage.

I'm hoping that this well motivate me to finish the site I have done on a box theme.

final crit. web

I had my crit today, and although I was confident going into it, I got a lot of constructive criticism, which gave me an indication of how much work I had to do, so I was a bit nervous coming out of it. The stuff I had gone over with my tutor before christmas hadn't actually been done, the gallery need to be completely re-thought as it wasn't rally working for the other people in my class and the typography was the worst bit, when someone commented 'it looked like WW2 type,' which was true, and I knew this was where I would need to make the biggest changes.

So I have quite a bit to get on with, as the deadline is coming ever closer...

back to the zone...

So it's the first day back after a long christmas break and I think today has been quite a productive day. At the end of last term I was going to re-do my website, so I could add in the extra textures which would make it seem more appealing to the viewer by making it come out of the page. Before the final crit tomorrow I hope to have the main part of the website done, and then after I can have time to work on any changes and the animation to go at the beginning of the site.

Here is a preview of the progression I have made in developing this website.

I am looking forward to finishing this brief and getting on with the Fmp...

holiday posters

I have been working on a new live brief I got handed the other day. It's quite sometime away yet but the client just want to see some ideas before christmas. They have asked me to create a flyer for a Valentines Day event at Oceana in Southampton in 2010. It was, if I'm honest a very open brief, they literally gave me the colours black and pink and names of a few of the DJ's playing. So hopefully they will give me some more info soon...

more scripts

I have been to uni for the past two days, to catch up on what I haven't learned. On Monday I went in to see Lee about AS3.0 to check if my scripting was write etc. I also asked a few questions about gallery's and buttons and stuff.

Today I went to see Neil about contact forms and CGI scripting in flash. He said it would be quite difficult to do, but we found a few websites to help: website 1, website 2, website 3.

I did a bit of work on the links section as well so when the viewer rolls over the type the picture will come up in the box, I am going to experiment with movie clips because I would like nice fade in...