Project Report

Project Report

What were you asked to do?

I was told to create a program that helps the target audience which are for students that would help them learn about the topic that I & my group have chosen to do. We were given a choice to choose which scenario we can focus our work on. The choices where:

1.       Cyber Bullying for age groups 14-16 year olds students

2.       Rock and Formations for Key Stage 2 students

3.       Learn what Dyslexia is & how to do improve the literacy for Key Stage 2 students

4.       Eating Disorders for age groups 10-14 year old students

5.       World Around Us for Key Stage 2 students

As a group we decided to go for the 2^nd Scenario the rocks and formation application & that the target audience is for Key Stage 2 students. After that we decided to go and create an rocks and formations we made an start on the research.

Research

Our 1^st piece of research was that we were asked to talk about the principles of multimedia which also asked us to talk about the key trends of multimedia and how it’s used in modern sociality. While I was working on the principles of Multimedia I didn’t had any trouble working on it.

Planning

I started to do the planning by creating two mind maps. One of the mind maps had the 5 scenarios as subtitles and had points about each scenario and tried to make more detail looking. The second mind map was going into more detail of the scenario that we decided to work on which in our case was the Rocks and Formations scenario. I try my best to make the mind maps looked very detailed so that we get closer to choose what our program will look like. Because that I was a member in a group I didn’t just do the storyboards I also did the HCI discussion that talks about what HCI is and why would we need it on our program.

 

Creating Buttons/Pages

For the application I helped created the pages for the rock and formation program helped with creating the Gemstones page and the Volcanos page that talks about all the different Volcanos that can be found from around the UK. The only problem that I encountered while I was creating the pages was that I the lot of info that I researched I wanted to use most of the info but I couldn’t use them all so I had to choose which research is needed for the program.

Linking the pages

I didn’t really know how to link the pages within the program so I had to do some research online to know how I can achieve this task without it breaking the program.

Changes you made

I did do some changes to the program then I ordinary had planned such as making the images in the Gemstones page have an bigger gap between the images and the text and I also shorten the video down using Premiere Pro because the full video was making the loading time to long throughout the whole program and give the video to the member of the group that was importing the video into the program. We also had to change the video format different because the default video format is MP4 and it didn’t doesn’t support MP4 files so we had to change it to a format that flash supports.

Adding Sounds

We also decided to include a sound in the buttons that once the button is pressed we would be able to hear the sound that it plays. We converted the sound from YouTube as an MP3 file and add the sound through the ActionScript and import the sound file.

Adding Video

I didn’t had a clue of how to import a video into Flash but I helped download the video that we used for our Flash from YouTube. The video is an medium range animation that would make the key stage 2 students want to watch it instead of the reading the gemstones

Adding ActionScript

We uncounted an problem because the drag and drop didn’t work correctly so we went online to figure out what the problem is and how we fixed the drag and drop quiz.

Consistency of Pages

The consistency throughout the whole program was very easy to maintain a steady layout that we created for the program as well as a perfect colour scheme and font style that we believed suit the program while we were finished creating the program. So there was nothing that shouldn’t been out of place when it came to the time while we finished creating the program and running it.

Working with Group Members

We didn’t had any problem with our groups attendance because every day we were in and every day we worked on the software every week from the middle of February to the beginning of May so we never missed an piece of work for the program.

Likes/Dislikes

The thing that I liked about creating while I was creating the program was that I liked the way that the program looked with the colours that we have chosen and that we followed the rules that what the HCI discussion that talked about in the assignment before creating the program which talks about the making the program easy to use and fun to use.

Software Used

The software that we used to create the program was Adobe Flash which is what we used to create the whole program and importing the video & sounds into the program. We also used Adobe’s Photoshop to create the animation that is included in the program in every page that can be find in the menu section of the program and as well as editing images. We also used the YouTube converter that we used to download the video and audio that we inserted in the program and we used Audacity to edit the sound file.

YouTube Converter

ActionScript from Flash

Audacity