Bringing the elements together...
The 'presentation' class that we had on Wednesday was pretty pointless and a waste of time in my opinion...I don't see how this module can be weighted with 30 Credits when we only have 2 hours of scheduled classes a week? Even then, the lecturers aren't there most of the time...we got no feedback on our project apart from the recommendation that we should 'just get it done', and that 'it's going to be hard'...I don't need to be told that...
I thought we'd turned a corner a few weeks back when we actually had some semblance of a lesson, but the guidance has just fallen away again...
I'm sorry, but I think these things need to be said...I can't understand why I have to keep going to Adam Procter and Mark (who have been very helpful and obliging, so thanks for that, guys) to ask them about the basic skills that should have been taught in this module in order to allow me and my group to produce a decent project...
However, despite all of the above, me and my group are slogging away and producing the necessary material for our project...I assigned individual tasks (I sent a Gantt Chart to my group members), and we will meet on Monday to bring the elements together in order to proceed to the finalisation stage of the website...
If we didn't have Adrian Sinatra in our group, we would be totally lost, as he studies Media Production, and is a lot more comfortable with the visual software than myself, or the other members of my group (the three of us study Music Technology, and I don't feel that we have been provided with the necessary tools for this type of project by the teaching of this module...but we're working it out ourselves...).
I have a good team, thankfully...Eugene Lemanissier is a real maestro, so we'll have some beautiful music and effects, and Eranta Zelmene is our very thorough and passionate market researcher...thanks for all the hard work up to this point, guys...keep it up, and let's see this thing through...
I have been looking at the article on the design features of 'Web 2.0'...it was actually really interesting, and the main things I took from this artice was that your site should be bold and confident, but simplistic and functional ('each website has a reason for existence'...what are we trying to get the users to do?...make this function central...)...using as little clutter as possible, and minimising features so that what we have onscreen is just the essentials (however, there is always the need to draw the attention, so naturally some design flair is 'essential' in my opinion...).
To sum up the article...'if there are two ways to do something, you should go with the simplest one'...sound advice, I reckon (see my previous blogs for my thoughts on 'simplify,simplify').
Good luck to all the students involved in this module! I hope no-one has to repeat this!!...
Feel free to comment if you agree/disagree with what I've said...
Later, people...
I thought we'd turned a corner a few weeks back when we actually had some semblance of a lesson, but the guidance has just fallen away again...
I'm sorry, but I think these things need to be said...I can't understand why I have to keep going to Adam Procter and Mark (who have been very helpful and obliging, so thanks for that, guys) to ask them about the basic skills that should have been taught in this module in order to allow me and my group to produce a decent project...
However, despite all of the above, me and my group are slogging away and producing the necessary material for our project...I assigned individual tasks (I sent a Gantt Chart to my group members), and we will meet on Monday to bring the elements together in order to proceed to the finalisation stage of the website...
If we didn't have Adrian Sinatra in our group, we would be totally lost, as he studies Media Production, and is a lot more comfortable with the visual software than myself, or the other members of my group (the three of us study Music Technology, and I don't feel that we have been provided with the necessary tools for this type of project by the teaching of this module...but we're working it out ourselves...).
I have a good team, thankfully...Eugene Lemanissier is a real maestro, so we'll have some beautiful music and effects, and Eranta Zelmene is our very thorough and passionate market researcher...thanks for all the hard work up to this point, guys...keep it up, and let's see this thing through...
I have been looking at the article on the design features of 'Web 2.0'...it was actually really interesting, and the main things I took from this artice was that your site should be bold and confident, but simplistic and functional ('each website has a reason for existence'...what are we trying to get the users to do?...make this function central...)...using as little clutter as possible, and minimising features so that what we have onscreen is just the essentials (however, there is always the need to draw the attention, so naturally some design flair is 'essential' in my opinion...).
To sum up the article...'if there are two ways to do something, you should go with the simplest one'...sound advice, I reckon (see my previous blogs for my thoughts on 'simplify,simplify').
Good luck to all the students involved in this module! I hope no-one has to repeat this!!...
Feel free to comment if you agree/disagree with what I've said...
Later, people...
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