Wednesday, May 6, 2009

4 years and finished....

Its fitting that the 60th post will most likely be my last one. Just to keep everyone up to date, the fyp is handed it up, the presentation is done... 9 months of working hard and i still can't relax properly, feeling as if there is something i need to do on the fyp... Crazy but its a routine that has built over the past 9 months and it just suddenly stops... hard to get out of it to be honest.

Exams are around the corner, well more like just on the doorstop really, and I'm not being terribly successful when it comes to study... Wishing everyone luck in their study and with the exams. 4 years.... finished...



When we were in 1st Year and worry free...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

RIP - Report.

The report is finally finished and printed...

woo

^_^

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Snake what happened?? SNNNAAAAKKKKEEEE!!!!

So i'm over half way past the report... i think... its standing at a very respectable 6500 words... give or take.

I have most of my footage shot for gaming, my script is also written. Now I just have to record some of the actual voice overs and as a little treat i decided to upload a video that might bring back memories from the 90's! Enjoy!!!


Ok. this was a labour of love. Working from scratch this took the better half of  braveheart to complete. Was looking all day for an easy way out to do this but the only one i could find cost $3.00 and in the end i was happier to do my own.

This was about 15 layers, 100 frames and ALOT of tweens. also 30 frames of triangles working their way around the scene! but its done. And how long will this be in my site? about 3 seconds and only under one section!! Ah the things we do for perfection!!

The quality in this video is really low so its jumpery than the original file so excuse the extra 'oldness' of it! 

^_^

Monday, March 9, 2009

new design, new ideas... new... shoes...?

Did my presentation (which went ok... not too good but you know... not bad either...) Happy enough with the amount of coding that i have got done, but i knew my self that there was something wrong with my design so i came  up with this! 

Ok so here is the rough new interface. i'll give a quick explanation of the design.
Light switch: Coming to the site the room will be in darkness, the light switch works as an enter site button. 

Television: All the information and video based on the television can be access through selecting this button.

Projector screen: All the information and video based on film can be accessed through selecting this button.

Laptop: all the information and video based on games can be accessed through selecting this button.

Telephone: Contact us page.

the picture frames on the wall with the (really badly draw) pictures are everything the user can do. - login, register, vote on poll, quiz, news and forums. each colour in the picture will represent the colour of the page on selected topic.

the chair in the corner: Feeling lazy huh? Then this will be almost like a sitemap. if you don't fancy going through each button to find what you're looking for then select on this chair and it will tell you exactly where to go! 

The image isn't complete yet but its looking really positive. All the buttons will be animated in flash aswell but i can't put flash up on my blog so you'll just have to trust me when i say i know what i'm talking about! 

^_^

p.s 
was told to cut back on the amount of documentaries i was doing from 6 to 3 so that is why TV, Film and Gaming are the only topics in this design. 
Also i didn't get new shoes but it just seemed to fit in the header!! 


Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Coding and the likes!

Ok did a major crack down on my coding. 

Finally got some code working for my FYP. 
I have:
(a) A poll working - Pick your favourite topic
(b) Login working
(c) Registration is nearly working ( nearly being the key word)
(d) been looking up RSS feeds for updates to be sent to subscribers!
(e) been looking up Forums where topics can be discussed
(f) Also working on some uploading and downloading code Liz gave the class.

So have at least some programming for the presentation done! LOL
Now all i have to do is try and integrate it into the design! 

^_^

Monday, March 2, 2009

illustrated images for each topic.


These are the minimalistic images i created from scratch in illustrator

Illustrations and illness


In the middle of getting over my terrible illness (see dramatic when stressed) and have not be able to get to laptop for a few days... (the travel sickness i feel while sitting down is a major hassle when starring at bright, electronic screens) so this is just a teaser of something i've come up with in a moment of clarity brought on by a dose of insomnia and illness.

the image isn't the easiest to see but if you click on it, you should get a bigger, better version! Basically i'm doing illustrations of each topic to spice up my pages a bit (give it a bit of personality). i'm going to make them alternative forms of navigation through the site. so this is the example of the music one. 

each illustration is going to have some text to go with it that is relevant to the topic. the text in this one is the lyrics to Weezers 'Heart Songs'.  They will also have a particular colour coding. Books will be greens, music - violets, gaming - orange, film - silvers, greys etc., tv - reds.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

sickly sickness and the such

Went to the doctor today and was put out of college for the rest of the week. Which means i'll be doing my presentation next thursday instead of tomorrow... which is good cause i feel if i stand up i'll just fall back down again... that or i'll just sneeze over the computer and i don't care what any one says that is not good in a presentation....

always in february/march i get sick.... never during the winter... always the spring... 

>sigh< 

going to spend the next few days getting better so I'm healthy for next week... 

i hate being sick...

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

RSS feeds and Pancake tuesday

Was talking to Pat yesterday. She's been really helpful with some ideas and being generally positive about the FYP. She reckons i should try out doing RSS feeds for my site. To have news that is related to the topic be refreshed every day is a great idea... So I've been looking into and i'm going to ask Seamus or Liz about it aswell.

On another note: really sick at the moment so I'm trying to do work at home but I can't stare too long at the computer screen without wanting to throw up so i'll do a bit at at time... 

plus its pancake tuesday... possibly the greatest tuesday of the entire year and i'm sick as a dog... oh woe is me! 

^_^

Thursday, February 19, 2009

What happens next?

Ok so here is a small animation of the info page for televisions (To get to this page you click on the television in the background of the home page - see post from 2 days ago. Also i don't have the info in yet but that won't take me long.) This is showing how users can scroll through the various bits of information that the site will have on television (i will use the same system for all the topics).

As i said the video isn't the greatest but the actual flash for the site is very similar to this but of higher quality. The coding is done for all this so now its just a matter of putting the information in! 

I quite like this to be honest!! 

^_^

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

It's a lesson i just have to learn....

OH MY HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD!! 

Ok... i just lost a load of work i did... don't ask me what happened except that flash decided to crash like the titanic and i just lost everything... so... i'm gonna go cry now and in 10 mins i'll be right as rain and start again...

>after quick angry cry and various swear words<

ok... didn't lose "everything" (i lean toward dramatics when stressed) but lost enough to warrant a kick up the you-know-where for not saving more frequently...

So not to panic... i know what i have to do so i'll just do it again. might take me all day tomorrow but thats ok... i can live with that....

damn it.... i'm going to bed....

:-(

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Home page flash... more than meets the eye?


Ok here is a video i exported from flash to explain how the home page is going to work (since i can't upload flash to the blog)

The animation above is the homepage (minus the arrow that exits out of the white panel. thats just to demonstrate the workings of the home page!) once the white panel is gone the user can then click on one of the items of interest to find out the information on each one and to also see the documentary made on it. 

The quality isn't the greatest... but thats not the actual quality of the site... just the exported video!

enjoy!

^_^