UNIT 48 P6

TASK 6 EVALUATIONS
WORK EVALUATED: Multimedia product designed for Btec ICT course
ASSESSOR: CJ Milne (Peer)
WORK CREATED BY: Aiden Clark (Student)
Aiden’s multimedia project features an innovative design which
features a book layout featuring his chosen department of science.
The opening of his project has an interactive map of the department
which then leads toward the individual subjects the school teaches;
Physics, Biology and Chemistry. The project then shows highlights of
the curriculum and the interesting things one can learn from studying
it.
The project was fit for the purpose of presenting his department to
prospective parents and students, it featured simple language and easy
to see pictures which crossed the barriers a disability might cause
such as lack of sight of long/short sight. Aiden’s project includes a
massive amount of information detailing the units a student studies
whilst at the Kingswood school throughout the years. The video
included is both eye-catching and informative towards the subject. The
interactive features are suitable and fit the design specification.
The elements of media Aiden features are appropriate toward his
specification as they are workable and easy to identify especially for
younger viewers. They feature easily recognizable colour schemes and
all the images are simple and useful towards his goal. The video
placed into the used easy to understanding language and contained no
swear words or inappropriate moments. Overall Aiden’s media within his
project is very suitable and appropriate for his target audience.
Aiden’s project worked at the time I assessed it and had no broken
links or faulty videos all of his content worked and was at a good
pixel quality with all of them running at no less than 340p.
The project overall sets a professional theme as its good quality of
design and media contents run flawless within the project the colour
scheme fits well and the transitions are used correctly and are well
employed towards a professional setting being produced. I believe that
Aiden has put a massive amount of energy and effort into this project
with the goal of producing high-level professional work fit for
viewing.
Although Aiden’s work is of a high standard there are some
improvements that can be made towards the work to improve it the
little that it’s needs to become a professional and higher level of
work needed to reach better grades.
1.       A larger logo which actively shows the science feature of the school.
2.       The addition of more colours on most screens as it is mostly
white and lacks colour on pages.
3.       The lines used to draw the book are wonky and not smooth at most points
4.       The tabs used to turn the pages need to be annotated to show
they are to turn pages and to coloured accordingly.
5.       The text on the ‘book’ pages does not fit and is not warped
to the ‘book’  and appear unprofessional and tacky.

UNIT 48 D2

UNIT 48 D2

Within my project I could have if I had more time could have been developed to further enhance the experience the user receives and by adding photos of members of staff to the staff page. By doing this I could have installed a sense of knowledge to the viewer and a sense of familiarity. I could have done this by taking photos of members of staff at their discretion and inserting it into the project, and then added effects to make a seamless transition.

During the course of making and publishing my project I was given 4 amendments to make to my project and these were:

1. Keep layout consistent rather than opening the navigation menu all over the pages

2. Put the logo you made on every page

3. One of the logos ‘jumps’ slightly, find some way of stopping this

4. Make the logo look less like it was just a re-skinned history channel logo 

First amendment was to keep a constant layout of my project. This was very beneficial as before my layout was different on every page and was generally confusing to a viewer and would have annoyed most and most of all it make the overall design appear unprofessional and shoddy. By keeping constant layout it makes the design look professional and keeps it simple to use and easy for I.T illiterate users to operate.

Second was the issue of the lack of the Kingswood logo on the lags of my project and the concern it only appeared once on the overall project. This would cause confusion if the project was mistaken by parents and could even be viewed as another school by those who have no knowledge of the school like many perspective parents do. To combat this I installed the commonly associated ‘Crown’ logo onto every slide in the corner of the newly modified common layout. By adding this it helps to develop the sense of professionalism I hope to achieve and it also helps to brand the project as related to the Kingswood school.

Next was a slight design error, as one of the ‘Crowns’ jumped slightly and enlarged, overall this was a minor oversight and one that damaged the professionalism the project is to install and is annoying when viewing the project in motion. To fix this all was needed was a simple resize of the faulty ‘Crown’ and a re-move to make it seamless. By doing this it has restored the professionalism the project has and also adds to the common design and keeps it all similar.

Lastly was the use of myself made logo and at first it was the History channel logo that was re-skinned, to my peers and to prospective parents would be seen as unprofessional and just a copy and paste making the school seem like it had low standards and would be seen as parents as inapproitate for their child to attend. So I took the logo back to the design phase and I added a different set of colours and re-designed certain features to give it a unique feel and one that could easily be associated with the History department. By doing this I increased the professional quality and the standard the project has and overall setting a good example of the school to potential parents and students.

P4,M2,D1 creation

print screen of my final product

UNIT 48 M3

UNIT 48 P5