Term 4 Evaluation

Year 10 Creative Media Short Film Production – Term 04 Mr Andrews

Task 5: Website and poster self-reflection and evaluation:

Part One: Discuss your feelings about the website, poster and promotional materials task:

1.    Are you satisfied with the final result?

Overall I am pretty satisfied with my final result.

1.    Did the website require more/less time than you originally thought?

The website actually required a lot less time than I originally thought.

1.    Would like to change any aspects of your final project (layout, links, images, colour scheme etc)?

If I were able to change any aspects of my final project, it would probably be to add more pages and detail to each page.

1.    If you could start the project again what would you do differently?

By restarting the project I would definitely spend more time on the aspects of my project such as my layout and theme, as I thought the website looked quite plain and bland.

Part Two: Respond to each of the following dot points (using complete sentences or paragraphs). You should include as much detail as possible in your responses.

1.    Discuss whether your website and poster have turned out the way you pictured them?

I definitely think my poster turned out the way I wanted it to, however I think the site was quite different. I wanted it to be really interactive and interesting, although it was just to hard to do this using iWeb, and a bit unrealistic with the abilities I have.

1.    Describe whether your site and poster clearly depicts the intended genre and describe some specific design techniques you have used to achieve this;

Forgotten is a mystery and I definitely think the color scheme shows this, but overall looking at the site it isn't clear the film is a mystery. The darkness of the layout shows that the film has something bad or tragic that happens in it. To achieve the full sense of a mystery, as said above I think I could of have made my sight more interactive. As originally I had a plan to have key objects from the film on my site and you click on them and they give you clues.

1.    Did you have all of the necessary resources to complete your site and poster or did you create new materials?

I had all the necessary resources to complete my poster and site, however it would have been good to have a website designer that would allow you to put a bit more detail into your site.

1.    Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the process. These may include; technical difficulties, corrupt or missing files, difficulty using the iWeb software, problems exporting files, sound or video etc;

The only difficulty I had using iWeb was transferring my whole film into the site. It was loading really slowly, so Mr Powell quickly showed me how to compress the file, and upload a much smaller file a lot quicker.

1.    Clarify how you made use of planning, content-lists and the flowchart during the authoring process;

The flowchart turned out to be my most useful source of planning. It enabled me to clearly see what pages i had to design on my website and what needed to be done. By completing my synopsis and character profiles earlier was also an advantage as I had more time to focus on the layout of my site. 

2.    Discuss whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection throughout your project.

Throughout my project my main fault was the use of reflections. I spent most of the class lessons working on my poster or website, and didn't take enough time to reflect on my progress and what had to be done. It was also because as soon as we received the task I had an idea for my site and poster straight away