Frustration with technology and other things...

Experimenting to decide whether to use flv or mov was much more harder than first thought. I swear the computers in University know when I'm trying to do something important because they never work!!!!

I'm swaying with using mov files at the moment as using Flash would cause more unnecessary and unwanted problems. In the meantime, I will attempt to experiment again, hopefully it will successful this time and will post the results in the next week or so!

Moving on from technical issues, I've secured a voice-over for the motion comic. I believe the motion comic will need a voice over to engage the audience instead of text and images on screen. This will be recorded over the next week or so, and I will post the script on the blog, once finished!

Looking back to the days of producing the pilot and things have changed drastically (but for the good!)

Here's the image I've created in Photoshop for the Homepage of the website:

I'm really pleased with the design as it's enigmatic, bold and intriguing especially the text 'The blind road to Media Control'. I found the below images through a search engine as I had an idea of what I wanted to create; a symbolism of being silenced and not heard...

To create the image for the Homepage, I experimented in Photoshop with the following filters:

Filters> Artistic> Cutout

Filters> Sharpen



And came up with this:

It reminds me of the image used in The Corporation:



Again this week, I've been thinking about the layout of the website and how the motion comic will be displayed within it. I wanted to include an element of user interactivity within the website as again, this will engage the user. The interactivity will be introduced through a second navigation bar which will allow the user to move through the motion comic chapters. I've incorporated 2 ways that the user can choose to do this:

Either

• Go to the navigation bar at the top of the page and choose the chapter from the drop down list
• Or click on the links 'go back' or 'next' which will then load a new webpage with the next chapter in a mov file.

Thinking again about the layout of chapters, I've decided on using a mov file for each chapter. Currently, I'm planning on using 4 chapters within the motion comic, each chapter averaging about 2 minutes in length each. Altogether providing 8 minutes or so of motion comic and around 10 minutes or so in user experience.

Currently my chapter titles are:

• Chapter 1: In the Beginning
• Chapter 2: Economical Consent
• Chapter 3: Media Control and I
• Chapter 4: Alone

I'm currently working on the background sound of the Homepage, as the sound I used for the Pilot (although I liked it) needs some work and improvement.