Evaluation PPD


For this brief we had to present a piece which showed are development through the course and are main interests. This Flash presentation was adopted for this is the program that I feel I have a lot of ability in, and hence symbolises the interactive media area I’d like to specialise in next year (another criteria from the brief). The piece doesn’t show all of the projects set this year but highlights my most favourable of them, I chose to make it click and talk. This backs up again the area of study I’d like to go into as its quite interactive. Though in retrospect I feel I could of made it more interactive by giving it more of a menu system and each piece a bit more of individuality (eg more animations cued when clicked in various areas).
Time and planning should have been better, this project was handed in late which also made it coincide more with Video deadline so more time could have been spent , making it a bit more diverse and longer. So time management would be something I’d of liked to improve, as has been the case on too many projects this year, this is something that will have to be greatly improved upon next year if I am to maximise my potential.
I was pleased with the images I made in Photoshop and then put into Flash, I think they work well to create a theme and symbolize what I’ve being doing through-out the year.
I think transferring files to Flash is a valuable method in creating visually pleasing pieces for Flash generated images look rather poor.
To make the presentation more effective I could of incorporated sound, I didn’t do this partially because I planned to talk through most of It , though in retrospect little sound effects would have been useful as it just adds to the richness of the piece and grabs the audiences attention more.
The layout of the presentation works well , it starts of with my blog and critical studies, the two less graphical aspects of my presentation and then goes into the more arty things , it ends purposely with a view to the future , I think this is the corerect place to put it as the middle is like an overview and the end is what is gong to come next.
I kept a them of consistency throughout with by using the same text , sliding text and imagery which stops the piece being too plain.
Overall I think this piece meets the criteria of the brief but instead of showing lots of actual pieces of work, it shows moving imagery of them I think it may have been better if I could of embedded some more types of media(movies) to show variation amongst my work .