Two weeks left

Well there is only two weeks left of college and all has gone fine, passing all the assessments as expected. The web site for the presentation is just about complete, now includes the video with audio narrative, animation and general information and links. Just need to get the crossword completed and placed in the relevant page. Part from that there will be minor thing to attend too.
In other areas of the course I have submitted my audio, video, and still images assessments. So I can see the next two weeks being easy as all I have to do is corrections and build the second part of the presentation using PowerPoint.

Assessments part two

The assessments are coming thick and fast again, and I seem to be passing them with much success as could be expected. As said I have placed the health and safety animation in the web page, it looks great. One less task to carry out on Thursday, leaving me more time to concentrate on other things, like making the web pages better for what they are meant to be. It has given me more time to think about the heading and colours. Hopefully this afternoon I will complete the video so its ready for the audio. That’s after I have taken the relevant photos in the still images class and edited them to the criteria

Finished all work

Well it’s towards the end of the week now and college has gone fine. Nearing the end of the year when all the assessments start. Don’t currently have anything to do as I have completed all the work required, so I thought id post to my blog and keep you informed of anything new. The big assessment starts next week, not too bad as I have plenty of ideas on what I’m going to be doing, the plans are written for the audio side, while the overall plan is completed, with the video storyboard nearly finished.

Dreamweaver is great fun, so if you ever get the chance to use it like I have. Go for it.

Animation

With not being at college on Monday it has been a very short week, first today was working with animations again and completing the task from last week. That was to create a simple animation, logo, and advert about fire extinguishers.

To be honest it is looking great now it has the buttons and sound added, fairly getting used to using the layers and different features of flash.

Then once I completed the animation I got the chance to use Dreamweaver again, it’s getting very interesting and fun. And I’m looking forward to the HNC next year.

Have now completed the plan, storyboard and risk assessment for the audio class, that’s basically about what I’m going to record and what sound effects will be added.

Web Pages

Tuesday was taken up with working some more on my web pages for the assessment, a little more working on the heading and buttons for the various pages. Have found myself to come up with some good ideas, ideas I feel make my web pages look professional.

Now I have the software on my computer I have developed the skills to create my own buttons, so this makes my web pages unique and different.

Have just been given today’s task in the Social Software class, seems easy enough, develop a task or mission for a fellow student to carry out.

So all is well so far.

In need of software

With the weekend over I guess its back to college, currently thinking through whether I’m going to splash out and buy some adobe software, Adobe Creative suite 3 web premium costing around £245. Would be worth it though in the long run as it has Photoshop CS3 and Flash CS3, both applications I use at college. Then I will be able to carry out college work away from college, rather than rely completely on the college computers. Will be handy having the correct software on my computer.

Have a look for yourself. student software

My chosen HNC

With the weekend drawing to an end, I haven’t much really to say other than I applied for my HNC. I have chosen to do multimedia web development, this all depends on me passing the course I am doing at the moment, shouldn’t be a problem as block one was easy enough to handle. My decision to do Web development was helped with the past couple of weeks. There will be plenty to do, just think about taking your own pictures? Editing them in Photoshop and putting them on you website. The achievements stand for themselves. Adding to that you have the chance to add videos and audio, with the added perk of animations that interact with the user, so in a whole you have a quality website people would want to view and enjoy.

The Fun Continues

Has been a very interesting day today, started off with interactive media for web development. This first involved a brief outline of the unit and what is required to pass the assessments later on in the block, then I got the chance to use Flash CS3, had a little play around to make small animations. Then came the real task, creating a storyboard for one animation that has to feature on a website, this animation has to include buttons to stop and start it.

With the brain storming over and the finalised storyboard I started developing my animation. With the idea of a clown like figure I decided the animation will include the removal of a hat the clown will be wearing at the start of the animation.


This afternoon was taken up in the Digital Media Audio Editing, being the first week of block two it involved some talking about the unit and assessments. Other than this I watched Duncan demonstrate how you can edit sound in small audio clips, then I watched a video about audio and how music was made using different sounds and techniques to get the sounds and effects, for example the original Doctor Who series theme tune, this was made by talented people at the BBC years ago.

Take a look at this

Block 2 has arrived

With it now approaching mid week I could happily say, everything has gone fine.
At last I started block 2 yesterday. First class was working with Microsoft PowerPoint, happy to say I have got the hang of PowerPoint. Good to see I am doing the Digital media, Elements for applications, this wasn’t hard at all, just gave me a brief idea of what element were. For example, what is Animations, audio and video? And how they can be used. I also was given the chance to learn about extensions like .doc and .mp3, this class will be very important if I chose to study web development next year as it will give me the skills of inserting media into a web site.

Passed the Software Development Practical

Completed the Software Development practical assessment with the result of a pass, I’m so chuffed to the extent I’m lost for words to describe how I feel this moment in time. All I need to do is a theory, that’s easy we are being told. Considering it was one of the subjects I was not sure about at the start, but anyway it got easier as I went along. And to pass Web Development as well keeps the gates open for my HNC in the summer. Anyway its block two next week, I can’t wait. So what it going to be, HNC in Web or Software Development?

Passed the web development fundamentals

Well it’s the usually Thursday at college with the little exception of the assessments. One in particular is the resit of web development. Better news is I passed this time, very much a relief as I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I failed again. Other than the multiple choose I have finish the health and beauty completely now, with the report done and submitted, sketches drawn and project plan submitted.

This afternoon is the web blogs class where I have another multiple assessment, feeling confident I will pass.

Client impressed with website.

Well all seems to have gone fine this week with college, although I’m still needing to complete the spreadsheets assessment due to my absence on Wednesday. Other than that I have passed the computer systems assessment, only to miss the pass rate of 14 by two marks for web development today. Very disappointed with myself, but hey, can look forward as my client was very impressed with my website, to my relief it didn’t need any corrections. Great!! All I need to do now is complete the report.

Other than the web development assessment I am awaiting on the database assessment I completed today to be marked.

Web development update

Thursday has arrived again and I should be finding out weather my web development client liked the website I created her, and weather there is any corrections to make. But there has been a small delay and I won’t be finding out till next week, after I finding out about the website I have the multiple choice questions assessment. That shouldn’t be difficult. Other than that I am currently writing up the report for my health and beauty assessment, so I’d better go and think of something to write for the technical specifications.

Broadband and web development

Finally back up and running, broadband went on strike this weekend. Resulted in no Internet access, other than the small problem my weekend has been mostly studying and working on my web development assessment. Looking impressive, Html is easy enough when you get used to it.

How are my web development assessments going?

More news on my web development assessments, there has been a change to the schedule, it now appears my one page assessment is to be on the Internet at some point so we can test it. This goes for the five page assessment too.

With the schedule changing, it meant the one page assessment wasn’t due yesterday as I thought. So it now means I can add more to improve my one page assessment, as well as work on my five page website assessment.

Soon be the 500 word report

My one webpage for my assessment is coming along fine and quicker than I thought, had a small change of mind and used the classes tag so I could have each paragraph a different colour, size and font. Although I still haven’t decided weather to keep the background plain using one colour, or take a photo and use it as the background. Other than the font etc, I have chosen some of the important places of Aberdeen college. Still need to think of a couple more, soon be approaching the 500 word report, will be plenty to write about.

Web development assessment and country pictures

Have been doing my web development assessment most of the night, so far I have managed to create the table with a heading and sub headings, have assigned the heading and sub headings with my preferred colours, fonts and font sizes.

Will keep you updated on my progress.

Other than my wed development assessment, I thought I would post a couple more pictures. Nothing more relaxing than the Scottish countryside.

Bright blue skies

The local farm in the distance

First meeting

Have had a good day, this morning I was meeting my client from the health and beauty department. I have to create a page to the clients specifications, discussed what sort of colours and fonts I was to use, and picture requirements. Went ok for the first meeting, other than my small meeting I had another afternoon of computer systems. Was given a small presentation about the operating system, other than this, I completed more tasks on databases, seem to be getting the hang of databases now.

Completed the three pages, now the assessment

The end of the week has finally come and I have just completed my last webpage. Had three in total to do, not all that difficult putting the contents into a table when you know how. All I have to do now is create the external style sheet to command the colours and fonts.etc. Then wait till my tutor gives the next step to me, until then I will spend the next 3 weeks doing assessment of creating one page. The one webpage has to include certain things like, lists, meta tags, headings and pictures. Has to be about the important places in college for students.

No borders is neater

Have been putting more time into working on my web pages. Finally have one of the pages created in a table, so when you remove the borders it looks much neater. The pictures are perfectly placed, and the text is looking much better where it is situated on the page. Next task is to create another external style sheet for the text colours.etc.