• Flying The Nest

  This project built in Macromedia Director MX 2004 is a fully interactive magazine aimed at a target audience who are leaving home for the very first time; within the piece there is extensive video usage in an attempt to visually show the user certain life skills such as cooking, cleaning, money budgeting and the like.

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• Jail Break

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  This fully functioning game requires logic and skill, as you play as two prisoners attempting to escape from a maximum security prison in Ohio, USA to Mexico; this was created in Macromedia Director MX 2004.

• Uncle Joes Texas Steakhouse Restaurant

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  A dynamically driven PHP website which is linked to a MYSQL database, Uncle Joes is a fictional Texas Steakhouse restaurant website in which the owner can update, create and delete menu items and the user can register and book a table of their choosing. Also uses Flash.

• Time Is Precious - Promotional Advert

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  This is a piece which incorporates video streamed across the World Wide Web through the medium of a website and is a promotional advert to try to increase people's awareness of my degree title. The theme is on the subject of time and how it is firstly precious to a student and secondly how they spend their time in a typical day.

• An Interview With Roger Carter

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  A sound project that I completed for a University module in which I recorded an interesting interview with 69-year-old Roger Carter about growing up in St Georges, Shropshire (pictured), as a boy in the 1940's after the end of World War II. I included unique sound effects I recorded in the piece.

• Up Your Street - Road Safety Awareness

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  A Macromedia Director MX 2004 prototype of a game for children designed to teach them how to choose a suitable crossing place in the road, cycle safety, how not too use your mobile phone when crossing a street, how to deal with and use a Pedestrian crossing and much more.

Hello and welcome to my website, my name is Joel David Reed, a young, enthusiastic, 23 year-old freelance web and interactive media designer based in Telford, Shropshire, UK.

I am currently working towards a BA Interactive Media degree at the University of Wolverhampton and I am in my final year of four, which means that over the next 12 months up until the Summer of 2010 and beyond I will begin looking to secure permanent employment following the completion of my education in the web design sector; so if any prospective companies viewing my work like what they see then please feel free to get in touch via my contact section and you can also download a copy of my Curriculum Vitae.

I have a few years experience in web design and development, which I have a real passion for.

I am always up for a commericial challenge so if your business, organisation, or charity is in need of a web based solution, feel free to contact me and I will be delighted to help. My web based projects always meets the latest XHTML and CSS standards to allow for maximum compatability, allowing you to reach more of your target audience.

This website has been developed to showcase my portfolio of my work in the Interactive Media field, as well as including a few sections surrounding myself personally.

I hope you enjoy exploring around my little piece of the World Wide Web, enjoy.

I'm Back After Holiday And Technical Issues

After contending with problems with both the hardware of my laptop and the software for the best part of a month and going on a much needed break surfing down in Cornwall for a week, I have finally ironed out all the issues, have returned from the South-West refreshed and I am happy to once again provide an update to my blog and portfolio.

[Blog Entry- 13:45PM GMT on 30-06-2009]

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