First Project In The Bag!
Today I finished the first of my four projects which are all scheduled to be handed in over the next fortnight.
For my Streaming Media module, in which I have had to storyboard, film, edit and produce a 30-45 second promotional video for The University of Wolverhampton Digital Media department, I today, after 5 hours straight of sitting in MK515 in front of Adobe Dreamweaver to the point where I think I was going cross-eyed, managed to finish my website interface in which my video sits and streams.
As I have mentioned on previous blogs, the subject of the piece is how time is precious to students and so I decided to place my promotional video in the square-face of a watch. I spent a fair few hours trying to create my interface image in Adobe Photoshop, taking shots with my digital camera in Wolverhampton city centre and importing them in to Photoshop and adding a few after effects and other imagery to create the look I imagined.
But the most pain-staking thing I encountered was getting the interface and video to sit identically across the main browsers (Firefox, IE 7, IE6 and Opera) on my website and this proved to be very difficult especially with IE6 (of course); but after lots of Div shifting in Dreamweaver I finally managed to get the website and video in the right place across all the browsers I wanted (I only need it to work in Firefox as part of my specification from this module, but that isn’t the most accessible of things is it?) and I also got my links working.
So on to my other projects now - my director Jail Break game is near completion with just the documentation to type up, my narrative concept for another module is progressing nicely and my prototype for a road safety game for kids is also nearly finalised - so keep an eye on my blog and portfolio over the next couple of weeks and roll on Christmas I need a break!
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