Wednesday 15th October

As i missed yesterdays lesson i needed to catch up on the work that my other classmates did. They had started using Flash and as i have never used Flash before this would have been a useful lesson.

When starting to use photoshop i got a task sheet for flash in which i needed to make a mini clip about the weather, this was hard to use at the beginning as i needed to get confident with using the different functions that was availiable on Flash.

as i did one symbol i found it easier to do the other symbols. The task is useful as it was teaching me how to create movie clips in Flash by setting the icon at different positions and also adding keys which is what they are called to pin point certain points in the movement of the creation of movie clips.

this took quite a while to produce as i have never used Flash before, I thought this was quite a long process as i dont normally create movie clips like that. this was the program that i am going to create my product in and therefore i need to start learning the different functions.

In the next lesson we started looking

8th October

in the first lesson we were paired off and each given a section of the stages that would be included in the project, we needed to note down every possible point in the section we could that would be in the process, this would assist when we were creating our gannt chart in the next lesson. also we
In our second lesson we started to jot down all of the tasks and the processes using the sheets we did in the previous lesson to help, which will be included when we create our product, these were all important at some stage in the stages including either: Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing or Evaluation. Each of these headings will be in the Gannt chart and will assist the project.

7th October

In this lesson we looked at applying CASPER when designing frames, this application analyses the design and insures that the design is well thought out and doesnt look similar to the whole page. Therefore by using this we started to design the first of the layouts which would then be analysed and critically evaluated so that we could choose the design that we preferred the best and therefore be more suitable in the story.
For each section (letter) we looked at the ways in which the product could achieve the specific criteria and this could be done in different ways and using different multimedia. This will then help me when design my product as i could use different functions for my project.
This lesson i learnt that not it isnt that simple to jus go ahead and design the layout and alot of thought needs to be put in, in order to design and produce the best possible product.

1st October

In our first lesson we looked at previously designed frames from childrens websites, we then used adobe photoshop to design sample frames, we used an 1024 x 768 frame to start using the different features available to design the frame, i used the theme of the story we need to create in the future so that it would try and give me some inspiration to design a suitable frame in the future. i took images from the internet and edited them in adobe to complete the mock up of my example frame, i started using tools in Adobe Photoshop as i havent used this program before and this will assist me when designing the project.
Attached is the sample i created.

In the second lesson we looked at the different ways of project planning in a hard copy way, we analysed a basic calendering sheet and looked at the different ways that the different sections had been segregated, this were mostly done by creating milestones at certain points on the calender. then we dicussed how dependency on resources or availability of help can affect the way that the project runs. by looking at a gantt chart that had been created for a different project we could see that the dates are specific for each project and how as mentioned above this could change beacuse of dependancys.

Today i learnt that Producing ICT documents can have a huge affect on the way any project is run and can divise the specific tasks that need to be done, and also the date that they need to be done by.

we looked at a previous made gantt chart which would help us when designing our own for our own project.