Alan the Alien!

As you all well know, the character that i have created for my lastest project "MLILB" is called Alan the Alien. Well here is the first digital version of him for all to see. It is in black and white at the moment because I am having trouble with adding colour.

Epic Blog

This week I have been out and about recording some test footage for the site. The footage that I have is to demonstrate the pushing force. It’s basically my car being pushed by one of my friends. It’s only test footage to see what can be done, it was done in bad weather so in a week I will record better footage when there is more daylight.

My plans for this week are to create the scene for the site and create the loveable character that’s going to be the newsreader, Alan the alien. I will also consult my friend for the music and my other friend to record the narration.

Well that’s all I have for you this week, goodbye and for heavens sake comment on the blog.

Blog Diamond

Next week is the hand in for the pre production work for our assignment. This deadline isn’t as daunting as the other ones, because I know that I am on target and if needs be I can always throw in a couple more hours to complete everything.

Last week I planned out that I was going to do the design work for the assignment but that did not happen, I got a mental block and there was no way out of it. I have now decided to go with the approach of creating 3 small pictures and showing a theme between them. This method lets me change the layout without ruining the whole look of the design.

Once I have decided on my 4 designs I am going to go into more detail and create wireframe versions of them. From that I will get feedback to help chose what is going to be the final design, then create a digital version of it.

So all in all it seems relaxed, i will be blogging later on in the week on my progress and to say if i'm still in the same mood.

Happy Blog

Hi people

Well I’m glad to say that I am working really well with the assignment so far, I’m ahead of schedule I believe. I’ve been in the same frame of mind that I was in on the HND meaning that I have been working at the same pace as I would have been if I were on the HND. My time planning is working really well and I have been keeping to it, roll on merit criteria.

This week I have:

Completed most of the web plan, the goals, target audience etc but I need to revisit the goals because they are not as detailed enough and are not measurable goals.

Done rough designs for the site. This took longer than I thought because of there being more than one screen per design.

I have worked out the questions and the content that is going to be on the site. I’ll need to check over the language of it to make sure that it’s right.

Although I have to check through a lot of things again I can because I still have over a week left before the first hand in date, which is on the 5^th February.

HNC

I’m back after a refreshing 3 weeks off for Christmas and the New Year. I know it’s late but hey, happy New Year people! Over the break I have been thinking about the course and what has to be done for it, I realised that in the next semester and there is a lot to do and I believe that it’s too much for me. But alas there is hope in the form of a HNC, a sidestep to a different course that awards me 150 UCAS points, the hours are greatly reduced and hopefully the stress should be too, I’ve had to come to terms that Santa doesn’t exist, any more stress and I’ll have to go to therapy. Just kidding of course, I won’t need therapy.

Joking aside, making the decision to move over to the HNC course wasn’t an easy one to make. I believed that moving over was a really bad option and that I didn’t want to do it. If I was to pass the course then I would end up on the second year of a university course going by the way I have been working, and doing the HNC option will reward me the same outcome.

I have been given my new assignment and my first impressions of it are that it looks quite interesting because the target audience is one that I have never had to cater to before, children in Key Stage 1 of primary school so that’ll be a challenge.

Deadline looms

This week I am going to talk about the iME assignment. Well the time is drawing closer for the portfolio website to be completed and work is going well. I am well on the way with the layout and soon will be putting in all the content. There have been a lot of design changes mainly due to the fact that I tried so hard to be truly original that I came up with nothing, or should I say nothing worth following through on. I looked again at other portfolio sites that have been created and took inspiration from them and wrote down the things I liked about the sites, this influenced the latest design.

CSS is still quite difficult but I am learning incredibly quickly how to utilise it. Dreamweaver doesn’t make it any easier either because for some reason it doesn’t display the page like it would be displayed in a browser. That aside I’m making good progress.

With there only being a week left to get the website created and to complete the ‘On The Job’ assignment the pressure is starting to mount, so because of that I have set aside more time this week to do work, initial estimates show that I’ll be doing more than 20 hours self study this week, but after that I can look forward to a well deserved break for Christmas.

That’s my blog entry for this week short but sweet

Bye

Luke

Project Manager for a Day

Brief review of the week, there was an absence of our project manager this week for both days, so it was up to me to lead the team on and I believe that we have accomplished a lot. It’s not easy picking up where someone left off and I believe he’ll be the same next week.

This week I am going to talk about my iME assignment, at the moment I have got the basic design down and it’s starting to get some colour, and also been toiling with CSS and trying to make my layout work. I thought instead of getting a template off the Internet and adapting it that I’d create it from scratch. The reason I did it this way is because I could put my CSS knowledge into practice and I’d get a sense of achievement from it. Doing the CSS for the site is not easy and is a quite lengthy process, mainly due to this being the first time I have done CSS from the ground up and it’s not doing what I want.

With the deadline for getting the site up and running getting ever closer, I know I’m going to have to spend a little extra time with CSS so that I can complete the site with ease. For the people who don’t know about my site, here’s the link, http://www.luke-parker.co.uk. At the moment there is only an error page but in the near future I will replace it with the fully functional site with all the bells and whistles and midi files I can get on there (only joking).

This is my bit from the week. I’ll post again later on in the week with a progress update.

Bye

Luke