Design Exercise 13 - Flash Banner

Well last night i completed my Flash banner advertising the iPhone 3GS. Even though i completed the banner and published it using Flash CS4 i came into Uni today only to find that it would open thanks to the Flash CS3 currently installed on the systems.

I have created an image in Photoshop which displays each frame of my banner.

I wanted to keep my banner extremely simple to keep with Apples' design principles. I have used a lot of white space and simple colourful images. I think this works quite well on my banner and the final outcome is quite appealing.

Each of my frames is animated with the text and images appearing and the disappearing off the screen to be replaced by the next set of images/text.

Design Exercise 14.....Social Network Integration

Research and identify at least two uses of social network integration not given in lecture. This can include RSS feeds. (research twitter and rss feed scripts) Identify relevant social networks for your project and discuss pros and cons (300 words on blog) and start designing a practical way of integrating into your particular project.

In my new project i am required to have aspects of social networking integrated into my site. I want to have the most relevant social networks linked to my site. For example if i choose an artist i may not want to incorporate YouTube but maybe flickr to show off more of the work and generate more interest and views. The idea of integrating social networking into the clients website is to draw users to the site from these social networking sites.

I think the most important social networking site for my client to have is Facebook. Facebook is by far the largest of all the social networking site and has around 400 million users!! This is a great way to promote and advertise a client. According to official Facebook statistics 200 million users log on each day. If a client is exposed to this many viewers each day surely they would generate visits to the main website where a Facebook script can be embedded. Facebook is also good as photos and videos can be posted to further promote the client.

I have chosen to create an artists website, I believe that Facebook is ideal to promote and link the client.

Twitter is also very important when thinking along the lines of social networking. There are an awful lot of designers and companies using Twitter that are all following different people. I think it is vital to implement Twitter for my client into my new website. There are millions of new 'tweets' each day, some are talk between two people and some are even jobs that are available

The other obvious social networks that i could use on my website are YouTube and Flickr. These two are slightly different than Facebook and Twitter as they are more about sharing content. Facebook and Twitter is based on talking and letting people know what you are doing and whats happening. YouTube and Flickr is the perfect place to share images, videos and design work. These social networking sites could be vital in promoting and displaying any design work that my client may have.

Building:Structure:Environment.

For the Interactive Media module design exercise we were asked to think of a building, structure or environment that i could use for my Term 1 project. It was suggested that the building should mean something and be personal to me, this is to ensure that i can find enough material on the subject.

I came up with a few places that are special to me and am yet to decided on the one i am going to use.

The first one was Rochdale AFCs' football stadium Spotland. I have had a season ticket for 8 years at Rochdale and have seen some very good times and also some low points. I have also seen the ground been developed and changed as the years have gone on.



The second thing i thought of is the East stand at Newcastle Uniteds' St James Park ground. This is where i went for my first football game. I have always been a Newcastle United supporter but i live too far away to get to the games so i rarely get chance to visit. I chose to use the East stand as this is the first stand i ever sat in at the ground.



The final one i thought of was a local park called Snig Hole Park. I have chosen this as i spent an awful lot of time there when i was younger.