Theory
Evaluation
In my current
project I have been focusing on completing my project on InDesign of creating a
webpage, which included images, interests, ambitions, videos I had produced and
an online CV. By using the InDesign software, I created 5 pages that allowed me
to change the bleed to make the page requirements to make the webpage the perfect
size. I planned out my design in detail so creating it digitally wouldn’t take
so long but I didn’t choose my images I was going to use so that took me longer
than expected and also didn’t use pictures of me as I wanted to use images that
either represent my personality or myself in some way as I thought this will be
more interesting and give me a wider range of images I could use instead. When
choosing a target audience for my webpage I wanted to make it as true to myself
as I could so I aimed it at a female teenage range just due to the colours I
chose to use and my hobbies/interest may resonate more with females rather than
males. Also, my fonts were a big point of my target audience as I didn’t want
to use them normal fonts (for example Cambria – body) that everyone uses as I
want to make my webpage different so I therefore used a more professional
looking font (Papyrus – Regular) that I feel represented me and what I was
trying to get across well. When creating this webpage i learn't many skills for example being able to draw and anotate my designs in my sketchbook in-depth and make sure that it was easy to follow. Also, when filming i was able to direct and make sure everything was going to plan, where in photography i was able to take many photos and put them together by locating areas that looked familiar after taking them.
This is a
screenshot of my homepage of my website where my images should be placed.
This is a screen
shot of the font I chose to use for my website.
When receiving my audience
feedback, I received a number of constructive comments along with a number of
positive comments for my Documentary. The negative comments mostly all
consisted with the sound aspect for example I quote “Voiceover could have been more audible – was quiet in places, music
was very loud” which I will take on board and make sure I work on it so
this problem doesn’t accrue again. On the other hand, the positive comments included
things like “Finished on a good note” and “Good variety of questions” which I am
happy with as these are what I worked hard on the planning parts e.g. Questions
and also trying to make it entertaining and educational all at once.
Also, when completing my contextual research
in advance to my production I came to realise that with the topic I had chosen
this research wouldn’t benefit me in a big way or even at all! In the future I will
do a lot more research at the start of the project and maybe it all come
together easier rather than forcing it to help when it doesn’t. However, my pre-production research was effective and helpful compared to my contextual research as this is what i kept going back and referring to! In the future i would like to do the pre-production in more detail as this is what helped the most.
