In the lead up to my website design submission I have been finalising the design and function of my final website and I am happy to say I am very pleased with how it has turned out I have since removed my blog navigation button as it was only cosmetic because it didn’t link anywhere and would cause more navigation problems than it solved. I have chosen the slide left animation to get from page to page because it almost emulates a workbook that people can flick through but have also added a slide right animation for transitions back to the home page. I now have 4 master pages: Home, portfolio, radio and contact and 2 secondary pages: photography and work experience. I also created six other pages which simply house the 6 separate photos from my photography gallery.
Furthermore, I have created a separate mobile view for my site, obviously with the amount of pages I have I cannot have a header navigation set up because they won’t all fit, do what I opted for instead is a menu button which will take you to menu page where all the page options are housed so that navigation is simpler and cleaner on each page. When designing the mobile view it was mainly a case of moving the elements from the desktop view over to the smaller template provided by Adobe Xd, I decided to the same thing with the photography page with regards to enlarging my images even though they are much the same size.
Throughout the design process I paid close attention to composition and how elements fit on a page together and how blank space is used cleverly to create a more visually pleasing final design. the colour palette I chose for the website is very muted because I wanted the photos and text I added in later to pop off the page which is the same reason I added drop shadows on page titles so that the elements of the page almost hover above the photo of me in the background and so that the design wasn’t flat and boring.
Overall I am really pleased with the website I have designed however in future I may have included contact links on pages rather than having a page dedicated to it. Also I would’ve liked to have a greater range of work to display on the site because it would’ve given me more to work with in terms of elements and content presentation.
On the first day of shooting we shot in the library and also in a classroom in the spark. on this day I started by coordinating light but slowing moved into helping Jay, who was also doing work experience for his MCP course, with the camera operation and we both worked as advisors to Antonia about how shots would look and what we thought was best for the film but at the end of the day it’s her vision we are serving. I really enjoyed this first day because it kind of broke me into what work experience is
like and what movies sets are like to work on, they are actually really chilled out and really fun. We were using a Canon XC15 which luckily I am familiar with and could advise technically with a little bit. The lighting we used was a panel light and two box lights both of which I had used before and therefore could operate quite well. Overall, this project gave me a good introduction because they were luckily using equipment that I was familiar with, other than the sound equipment, so that I could be more hands on
university campus and today we had the same team as the first day however Jay couldn’t make it so we had Emma-Louise come in and help instead and similarly to the first day we worked together on lighting and took it in turns with camera operation which was really fun again. we shot about 5 or 6 different scenes in 2 sets, the bedroom and the kitchen. Today I learnt about the challenges of camera operation because we had to film multiple conversations and interactions between characters which meant positioning and continuity was everything and its difficult to do that when this is your first time shooting a movie but luckily Antonia was there to advise us all the way through.
This week I started designing my webpage which will house my portfolio as well as a link to my blog and just a general profile about me. I have pre-emptively looked up domains names that are available, ideally I would like shmedia.co.uk but it wasn’t available however samhayward.co.uk is available at just under £20 for the first three years, and will renew at £11.99 a year after that. I am going to hold off from buying it right now because I’m not entirely sure how they work. But anyway back to the design. Like for everything that represents my online identity, it needed to be consistent with everything whilst also having it’s own aesthetic. I started with a plain white artboard which was the size ‘most 
common webpage’ on Photoshop. I added a grey header which would house my navigation; speaking of which, started with having the pages being different mediums such as photography, videography, and audio but I eventually changed it to be just: home, portfolio, radio, blog, contact. I gave radio it’s own page because it is what I’m most passionate about and thought it deserved it’s own page as a result. The home page is still a work in progress but will be home to my about me section, and as it stands all the pages will have my picture in the background because I think it looks good and creates a point of interest. Next week I want to continue designing each page on photoshop if not start moving the elements over to Adobe Xd.
planning the shoot including what will be involved in the introduction, the body and the conclusion. In order to get inspiration for our documentary we watched ‘Enginemen’ which is a 1959 documentary about the British railway, this documentary was a mixture of poetic, observational and a little bit of expository. The movie is very well paced and starts with some long takes of the workers and the railway and the pace changes as the mode of documentary does, non-diegetic music starts playing and there is voiceover for the first time and it’s the railway workers talking about working on the railway and improvements that could
This week was a very important one when it comes to the overall outcome of our project because we got to visit a very rainy and windy Ropley station where we met some of the volunteers working there, as well as Becky. We as a group were given a tour of the site with a volunteer called Kieran who gave us a lot of information about the various trains and train restoration departments that were on show at Ropley station on this particular day. I was particularly interested by the fully restored trains that were out on the tracks as well as the signal box which had a very unique aesthetic but looked horrifically complicated to operate.
documentary but said it would be a huge relief for her not have hear her own voice when watching all 60 documentaries. As a result when we sat down and discussed some of the questions we might ask we excluded Becky because we won’t be featuring her in our documentary. So therefore we created a document with all the questions we have for students, volunteers or potentially teachers. Becky also mentioned research on previous meta documentaries and how we should have a good balance of interviews with stakeholders and a lot more focus on the students which was absent in previous examples. We came up with 7 questions for students, 4 questions for teachers but only 3 questions for volunteers/staff, so that’s something we will have to build on in the coming weeks. luckily we are filming on the 15th of March meaning we have the whole of the 1st of March to carry out more research and planning not to mention free time in the intervening weeks.
asked to talk about a horrible ordeal a particular trainer, Ken Peters, had to go through. The clip starts with a black screen labelled with the date with a voiceover of a news broadcasts which is cut to shortly after. This clip is followed by footage of the actual attack which is subtitled with details of the encounter. This scene is edited together so that Dave Duffus, the interviewee, speaking throughout the entire clip and it cuts between him and the archive footage of the incident. This is when we get our first editing decision that relates to shot size. In this 
particular scene the interviewee is shot in a close up, this is because of the severity of the subject matter and the intensity of the situation it was clear that the editor (Eli B. Depres) wanted to hone in on the emotion of the interviewee, at least while the archive footage was still rolling. After this we see the shot size shift back to a more comfortable and familiar distance from which an interview would be taken from (Medium-close up), this is due to the fact that in 
relation to the archive footage the tone has become much lighter as trainer Ken Peters managed to escape Kasatka’s jaws and therefore the Depres wanted to convey that tone has changed from just a few minutes earlier, where the audience may have been on the edge of their seats.
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