Design Concepts

This page descibes the design concepts used for the projects.

Project 1 - Flash Animation

The objective for this first project was to show personal growth with three different stages. I decided to do an animation on my progress through skateboarding. The first scene shows me skateboarding day and night, trying to show me skateboarding all the time. Then second scene is trying to show the weather changing to fall and then me going off a ramp and getting beat up. The third scene is then supposed to show me a while later thinking about skateboarding again, but instead choosing the computer instead. As for designing the animation itself, I thought that I would I would try to make myself the focal point for just about every scene. Besides that, all I did was put the animation together how I thought it looked best.

Project 2 - Website

I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my website when I heard about this project. I didn't really like my old website, so I tried to come up with a different look for it. I knew that I would want a banner, a navigation bar, and a main area to pt content. I ended up just making the site with three main colors: the off yellow, olive green, and black. After looking at it though, it seemed kind of simple. I then thought that i would try to add some depth and a few more colors by adding the fingers holding up the page. After adding them, I liked how the page looked in photoshop and decided to try to code that.

Project 3 - 10 Tips

For this project, we had to give ten tips on a subject that we thought we were experts at. One of the first things I thought of was the online video game Team Fortress 2, seeing as I have been playing the game for a while now. I decided that I would give a tip for each of the nine classes of characters you could play in the game, and then a second tip for one of them. I then decided that I would make the buttons along the top of the screen with the content below it. From there, I basically just set everything up in the appropriate areas while trying to keep a Team Fortress theme throughout the design.

Project 4 - Audio

The overall goal of this project was to create a flash animation that had three audio interviews and it had to load things like the interviewees' pictures and a little bio of each interviewee through an XML file. The topic of the interview had to be a question that interests you. THe queston I picked was "What do you think happens after you die?". I liked this question because it didn't really require any previous knowledge like "who would you vote for and why?" and it was more of a question that could be answered purely on your own opinion. I tried to incorperate a heaven and hell scene into my background to keep with the theme.