OK this week has gone fast, little too fast!
On Monday we were given our new brief. Essentially a flash website about an artist of our choice. As with all of our briefs there is a challenge and this time its time management. Our brief due in 4 days after a two week Easter break - prime "get the website working" time! and yes it will be interesting to see how people deal with it.
I have some knowledge of Flash going into this brief and although it's self taught (ie learning from mistakes) I think it holds me in good stead to get at least a reasonable website up and running. The concern I have is that I just don't want a reasonable website, I want a very good one and I suspect that my ideas are out of my ability range at the moment (hence the comment on the challenge - those two weeks are ideal harrass the tutors time). Upshot is that I will have to have a back up design but have every intension of going for the very good one. I bet you're asking, what does the very good one look like and my answer is...no idea yet, I have bits and pieces of ideas but they havent merged together yet to form any coherant design.
I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to put all the information in and having looked at other websites on Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters there is alot of information out there. So my plan is this - recent information so as to keep it small and managable but have it built so that it can be expanded on by setting up the infrastructure correctly.
For the first time in a long time we had a tutor lead session on the basics of Flash and Actionscript 2.0. It felt good being taught something. I can see the benefits of tutor lead and self instructed time but feel there is too much self instructed time at the moment. This course is the first time in my entire life that I have had to work with the design process and although I understand what that process is and how it is reflected in any design I can't help but feel that it was down to me to "feel" my way through the process. That's it, there isn't enough examples given. For someone like me, saying create a portfolio means very little. I don't know what a portfolio is - so I research and find out that what I initially thought was a portfolio isn't correct.
Time to get back to Dave ;)
