Evaluation

My web banner was made in flash using action script 2. I started off by researching other web banners so I could gather ideas to create my own. After researching I started making the web banner. I Created my background in photoshop as well as several other components such as my text, which appears on each screen, the button icons and the screens. I used a downloaded font to create the text and i also found the font of the Plymouth College of Art logo and used that at the end of my animation.

I then took all these into flash and started building my animation. I made it so that it starts automatically, as I though movement would attract the audience.I made the screens move into the stage from the top and the bottom of the banner until the all met in the middle. I then made it so it plays through to a certain point, where all screens have displayed a word each of the course. I then added button which appears under the first screen. I made it so if it was pressed it would change the text on the screen above, then a second button appears under the next screen. Once all the buttons have been pressed the screens would spell out 'Plymouth College of Art' and a link saying 'find out more' on the fifth screen which navigates you to the course page on the website.

Once I had done this I done some beta testing to find out if its easy to use, clear and easy to understand and a good use of graphics to represent the course. After doing this, I found that the original text that I used was not easy to read and looked too messy as well as hard on the eye. After this I went back into photoshop and made my first few pieces of text the same colour, size and font. I then replaced the old text with the new and it made a big improvement.

If I were to do this again I would keep the text simple, as I found out it makes it easier to read and more attractive rather than different fonts of all sizes and colours. Also I would use a new layout, perhaps from top to bottom rather than left to right, so it could fit onto the side of a webpage as well whereas at the moment it would only fit on top or the bottom of a web page. If I were to do this then the monitors would come in from the left and the right of the canvas until they met in the middle.

This is my original web banner - http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1308666942

This is my improved and final web banner - http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1308743853