Backdropped wallpapers - Website
Coming soon...
If like me you spend a LOT of your life in front of your computer, and every now and again suddenly realise that you need to change the wallpaper. Backdropped will be a hassle-free community website where people can find and share free desktop wallpapers. The site is currently in testing and will be 'properly' active some time in August 2010.
Ashford Scaffolding - Website
Ashford Scaffolding were looking to improve their online presence with a professionally-designed website which needed to be user-friendly, clean and presentable.
I was provided with an old logo and some photographs, and after agreeing the content and structure, my Photoshop design was developed into the functioning site using XHTML and CSS.
Downend School - Promotional Video
Downend School needed a promotional video which could be distributed with their Post 16 prospectus pack.
After the initial requirements gathering, I was able to plan, shoot, edit and produce a 10-minute video featuring students and the head of the Post 16 department.
The footage was shot in HDV, captured and edited using Adobe Premiere, with After Effects used for motion graphics and titles. Click here to watch now.
Amethyst Media - "Pitching" Website System
Amethyst Media wanted a site which would allow them to combine text, images, video and other media together for pitching advertising campaigns to their prospective clients. This required me to build a site which would let them log in to the system's back end and add all of the content, and then give their clients unique usernames so that they can log in and access all of the pitch material. The site was eventually realised using XHTML/CSS and PHP/MySQL.
Oasis Academy Bristol - Newsletter Design
Design and layout of 24-page A4 full colour newsletter.
The copy text was provided as an MS Word document and I was given complete creative control over preparing the newsletter for print and web delivery. The final design was created using Adobe Illustrator, with Photoshop being used for basic image editing.
Hairspray Musical - Enhanced Audio CD Authoring
The Hirspray project required me to design, develop and author an Enhanced Audio CD which would play Audio tracks in a domestic CD player but also run an interactive presentation when inserted into a Windows or Apple Mac computer (allowing users access to a promotional video and MP3 versions of the CD audio tracks.)
The interactive presentation was developed using Adobe Director and Flash, with additional programming to allow cross-platform comatibility.
The final pre-master CD-R was authored as a Blue Book compliant Enhanced CD, with the data session containing separate Windows and OS X volumes for the native content (Custom Hybrid).
MSc Creative Technology - Digital North Video Project
During my postgraduate MSc course, the class' first project was to work as a group to produce a 5-10 minute video about art in Leeds.
The task of shooting and editing video fell on my shoulders with other group members arranging shoots, designing graphics, recording/processing sound and composing music.
Appologies in advance for the poor video quality - this is a transcode of an already compressed video. Click here to watch now.