Finalising the Website

After the website was complete we were still not actually finished, we were then required to validate the various aspects of the website. This included firstly validating the HTML this involved uploading each of our .htm pages and checking them for different coding errors. Then we had to validate our CCS pages and check whether there were any errors through them. This was an area which was quite difficult to understand as there were various errors which showed up however did not know how to correct them. Where even in some instances if you corrected one error and then checked your .htm page other errors would occur as they stemmed from the correction you made. Lastly we needed to check the colour contrast so that we could ensure the foreground/font colours had adequate brightness and colour contrast with the background colours. 

After these stages were complete it was then time to finally submit the website to be marked. After finally handing up the website there was a big sigh of relief, i had finally completed the website and was done for the year for this course. 

Website

After the video was complete it was then time to move on to the last stages of the course which included creating a website that revolved around our promotional video. We were asked to use a program called smultron which i was quite unsure about, as it was my first time using the program. It was quite tricky in getting a sound grasping on the various codes which needed to be used to create the website with. However after a few tries i slowly started to understand where to use the various codes, how to close them off, start new paragraphs, underline and italicise words and so on. 

The website i created included information on depression about the various symptoms, causes and treatments involved. I included various direct links where people were able to go to if they were searching for help. Using adequate and informed information that will benefit those that are in a place of denial or a place where they are unable to distinguish where they are in their life. 

A picture gallery was used for viewers to be able to have a more emotional heartfelt response to the website, where the visuals will allow viewers to contain a mental image in their heads. A video was also incorporated which was the promotional video i created on depression for assignment 2.

When it came to the styling and decorating of the page making it look more appealing i found this quite difficult. As i am used to having different styles on the actual website to work with, not having to change these layouts from different codes. The colours i used was quite dull and sad, trying to portray to viewers how serious this issue is and how sad the topic is. The banner included made it easy to identify what the website was about as i incorporated large writing clearly stating it was about depression. The colours used again was dull and boring. 

Constructing the Promotional Video

After deciding what angles were best to implement in order to project the right emotions or obtain the right reactions from the viewers, it was then time to piece the pictures together and construct the video. First came importing all the images into the program, then choosing the right sequence for the photos to be placed to portray the message. The sequence which was chosen was all the positive images been placed at the start showing how good the person's life was and how everything was fine. Then it was rewound back showing a quick flash back again of all the images of the actor in their stage of happiness, followed by the images of sadness shown to display how different the actor's life was six months ago and how depression can affect a persons life. Description was used in order to engage the audience and have them reading and processing what was happening, providing them with more detail about the events occuring. A statistics page on the numbers and facts of depression was also included to further evaluate how serious this problem of depression really is and the further consequences which can arise. The description of the images and various facts being included, allow the audience to become more involved and also more passionate and emotional of what is to be conveyed. After this was completed it was then time to include some sort of music, i incorporated an upbeat and mellow sort of tone through the happy stages and then changed it to a somber tone for the period where the images portrayed the depressing stages. The different tones is what brings the audience up and down which allows them to feel those certain emotions which the images are trying to display.

After it was complete i played it back a few times to make sure the music, images and description all matched together and flowed. This allowed me to notice the few minor adjustments i needed to make in order to have all aspects flow together effectively. After these adjustments were made it was then uploaded and sent in to be marked. Although one major implication which i had only noticed a few days after i had submitted the video for marking, was that the different tones i had included, did not appear and was not existent. I was still unsure how this had occured but i am led to believe it had occured through the stages of exporting the video and changing it to the different video type for it to be viewed.