web banner

This is my web banner i have completely finished it now i hope you enjoy looking at it.

beta testing

I went out around the room asking my fellow classmates to test my banner I asked 10 people

Do you like range of colours?
Yes 4
No 6

Is the banner grabbing your attention?
Yes 5
No 5

Does it take you to the course web site?
Yes 10

my web banner full fills it prepuse its gets your attention to come have a look at our course website i made it simple nothing to complex so its straight get the message across.

mind mapping ideas

 This is the mind map Billy, Adam and I did together we worked as a group to give helping advice to each other and to create more ideas when we needed them, we all choose one idea each and expanded on it I choose the interactive web banner its simple but it gets you to the URL of our course I choose simple colours for it  blue, green and gradient black grey and white not to in your face but not to un-interesting  it keeps you inform on what it wants and its you the persons reading the web banner .

animation analysing

animation analysing

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/figurine
This animation is called Small plastic figurine two guys standing around looking bored until a small figurine drops in the scene and the guy tells the other one to eat it, In all I thought it was a great animation short but very overly packed with lots of random's things coming after this one guy the colours they could of changed very slightly on the two guys but everything was surprisingly excellent i love how they made of scene's as the pacman scenery. Therefore the animation was really good in some way but in others a complete waste of time, the concept of the art of the animation was all drawings up minus out the pacman scenery which looks like it was taken from the internet along with the pacman eaters. I do not like the basic art as the background in this animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4WHUbNeis The sleeping man
this animation of this sleeping man is really well thought of because I liked the early morning wake up call from an alarm clock the man dragging his feet along the floor isn't realistic the man smashing his alarm clock is very well thought of the concept of this animation looks hand drawn so very basic line and shapes for this animation they have used a good ranged of dark cool early morning colours they have really thought about what they were doing before getting straight in to it. therefore it was a good animation a bit pixelated in parts of it but all of it looks hand drawn via Photoshop   the windows from the inside don't look like windows just shapes until the man slams the door to walk out side the windows look like windows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLV0SHJsSFY
This animation is being promoted by a energy drink by using tennis balls that turn in to these horrible little ball monsters is a really good idea the concept of the art of the animation is vector not hand drawn like the other two links above it is a smooth animation there is no loading waits it's very energetic because of the promotion but the background looks very pixelated if you look closely at it but overall i like this animation at the end of the animation it give a quote from the promotion.

http://www.dxinteractive.com/brokenarms/
This game is called broken arms  has a good concept it get you involved its tells you how the aliens came to this planet and you have to kill as many as you can i did not like the basic hand drawings of this game it looks like bitmaps from Photoshop using the simplest ways to control the avatar which is easy to remember the keys  to control you're avatar they could of use different colours of the space ships and a more different levels and different colours maybe a night time invasion or something more drastic than what it already has. All in all
 it was a good easy game to game with very basic drawings and very simple easy doable colours they could of used different mother ships also changing the colours and making them follow you while your running and jumping around to kill the space ships.
my reference to these animations http://www.dxinteractive.com/

my web banner experiments

my web banner experiments

The first experiment of a web banner I used photo shop this is my out come I am very impressed with it but I'm also really disappointed at the fact its very dull and really simple I had no help making this one but I probably wont be able to make a decent one in flash with out help. overall it was a good experiment for a first time making one.

My evaluation 

My banner is coming along nicely I got the coding working for the URL to the course website its quite a simple banner, its eye catching and its interactive to the course we are on I think I could do better but the time scale to everything done hasn't left me with the greatest time scale to get a better banner with more interaction.

I struggled getting the coding correct to make it work to connect it with the URL and after a few attempts it worked, i have used basic standards banner sizes and very colours for my banner so it was simple but effective, I hand wrote in the coding myself so it made it a lot harder to find the mistakes or missing parts of coding before I got it correct and it worked to the website of this course. I have used only three words in my banner on a loop so it makes you feel involved in the advertising of this course. 

 This is the demo we have just done in flash action script 3.0 create a bubble type shape then create a new layer for a target aka a shape to follow the line we done it in three separate stages layer 2 press f6 on frame 120 then layer 1 go to frame 20 press f6 then move the target a third around the bubble then go to frame 40 press f6 then move the target around a third around again then again the from frame 60 to frame 120 making sure its back in the spot to it started on. This demo is not the easiest to follow convert to a movie clip create new layer in frame 40 put in blank key frame.

 snippet coding movieclickroot (target.x=mathrandom)"620 

moviecliproot(target.y=mathrandom) "250

   var score:Number =0

target.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_target);

function fl_target(event:MouseEvent):void

{

score +=1

scoreText.text="Score"+String(score)

    trace("SCORE")

}

this bit of coding will count the times numbers of clicks on the target as its moving around the screen then when it gets back to the starting point it reset the score back to zero, 

research on web banners

 This is my presentation on web banners I found out some really interesting things about it web banners and some really bad things about them 

 


World Wide Web is a place a socialising and getting people attention to look at advertising to get the viewers interested at what your advertisement is, half the time it works but mainly for games, so I researched games that are most recent out and most popular  
This is one of my favourite banners to look at because of the contrast of dark and light colours combined together. the writing on this banner is very small but readable this is promoting a guild for a famous game world of warcraft i love the fact they have use to images of characters from the game on either side the text in the middle and the two characters are just going over the banner board its makes more effective to look at, http://wow.stratics.com/content/events/WWI08/index.php My favourite web banner so far is the world of warcraft one because of the contrast the traditional left hand clicking to go other places on the website, The way it's been moded into one. It has trailer for upcoming patches for the game showing you information how to play it.

The gears of war 3 banner is clean and clear to read and see the images the same as World Of Warcraft banner above this shows they have use the correct sizing for the banners the correct sizing for each image, They are not over pact with information and imagery just enough and still effective to the eye.The call of duty world at war web banner is very effective in itself bold simple easy to read writing not the best uses of colours but you can clearly see the solider with weapons on his back and in his hands waiting for you to play.

http://www.lg.com/uk/mobile-phones/index.jsp I think its always a good idea to always have animation in a web site/web banner because it enspires people to come look at your website, i love the contrast, use of colours, and the use of animation in this website, keeps to the traditional website design clicking to the left,  this is interesting to look at because it looks like pop art but more modern termed its the fashion of dark and light colours contrasted together along with the image of some one eye with the contact lens in,the Layout of the web banner is eye catching it has the product in the image and the text is easy to read 

The layout of Game website is basic but easy to access it's got great contrast and colours same as the other two websites i have been researching traditional clicking on the left main theme of what's best seller and web banner on the top scroller got trailer for the newest games out at the time its simple to easy and very basic and its a famous logo

http://www.game.co.uk/

For this task i found some really good and bad banners for my research this helped me figured out what colour and text not to go for and which is suitable for my banner therefore the better the quality of the text and image the better the results are,