To be honest, at fist I thought HTML was impossible to use! I found it extremely difficult even when I had both lecturers being extremely patient with me......I still didn't have a clue! And so the next day I went into uni and taught it myself eventually after a ridiculous amount of time I seemed to have got the hang and I got it done! Once I learnt how it worked I found it quite simple, just time consuming.
If I got the opportunity to make another project then it would be of a much higher level because I now understand more clearly what I am doing.
I also enjoyed taking the pictures used in my project. I edited them on my mac computer. I used different effects to create a certain ambience in the project. For example, with the studying pictures I edited them to black and white to make them slightly more dull than the coloured bright pictures used. With the party pictures they were the opposite. It was common sense really in the fact that naturally when people think to do work it is usually a negative feeling, on the other hand going out is exciting. And so I tried to employ that in the project. I found choosing the pictures the easiet part whilst using dreamweaver more difficult. I tried to use some techniques in my photography, for example, I blurred the edges on a picture:
Here is my final Interactive Project:
I did this to take the focus off the picture to concentrate more on the A* pass.
I also used other techniques to improve the pictures enhancing them etc. I have much preferred this project than the animation project because I found it so difficult. But I understand practice makes perfect!
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