Siri Bergmann Stolen

Finished!

siriswebart — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:08:46 +0000

The flash file is finally finished and I have added it into a Dreamweaver file.

All I have to do now is to burn a CD and deliver it

There are probably things that could have been done better, but at least I was done in time for the last week.

Here is a printscreen of the final site.

Print screen

siriswebart — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:58:00 +0000

Here are some print screens of my site and how it looks so far.

Finishing touches

siriswebart — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:12:31 +0000

I’m soon finished with the final assignment, and when I’m looking back on the concept I wrote some weeks ago, I can see that a lot of things have changed since then. Even tho the idea and thought behind it is the same, the way I have expressed it visually turned out quite different then I expected. I have made some decitions about the look of the site as I went on with the work, and saw what I was capable of, and what flash alowed me to do.

It is a while since I have worked in flash, and I needed to refresh some of my skills there, but internet provided me wi answers to most of the questions I had. And eventually things came back to me.

I decided that the page should not have a narrative construction, but that you will get to choose the order of what you wants to see. The intro is an exception.

To show the viewer that what you can press I have used a rollover effect when the mouse entered the words or cardboard boxes, they move, this will indicate that there are buttons.

I also decided to add sound to some of the events in the site, including the intro. I found the sound on Flash Kit – A Flash Developer Resource Site.

I will publish some printscreens of the site later for you to compare the outcome with the original idea.

Context

siriswebart — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:26:23 +0000

I have decided that the site will have a picture of a street and a brickwall as a background. In Norway we have an expression which describes a random person as “the man on the street”. That is why I felt the picture would be suitable. I talk about persons in general and the fact that it is posible to have several identities. And not one person or one specific identity.

Final assignment – update

siriswebart — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:49:15 +0000

I have decided to make most of my site in flash. I have started on the intro which is supposed to be work as an introduction to the site.

The viewer are not suppose to do anything, just look at the introduction, (maybe there will be a possibility to skip the intro, I haven‘t decided yet) The intro will consist of words that can be connected with the theme (Identity) crossing the screen. My main focus is that people can have several identities in different situations. The words will be written both in English, French and in Norwegian which is my language. In addition to the words crossing the screen it will be people, or the outline of people sliding over the screen. Identity have a strong connection to the term human/person. The last word sliding over the screen will be identity.

Main page:
To make the page a bit more unpredictable and exiting I will use pictures of different people with different features. And when you click on them different things will happen.

Here are some ideas:

Face 1:
- rollover – removes different features of the face, mouth/eyes ++

Face 2:
- rollover/clicking – The mask on the face changes

Face 3:
- rollover/clicking – The mask is removed, you see what’s under – can be a painted face, nothing, a normal face (angry, happy, sad ++)

Face 4:
- rollover/clicking – The colour of the skin changes

Face 5:
- rollover/clicking – animation – the face starts to talk, maybe in different languages

Face 6:
- rollover/clicking – twoface: a person in profile, the face turns to the side when you click, the other half side of the face has other features, maybe scary/robot/machine/old ?

Face 7:
- When you click on the face a new picture displays, the person in hole figure standing and holding a poster, the word on the poser changes frequently. Words connected to the theme.

Inspiration: Monoface

siriswebart — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:09:07 +0000

Mono is an advertising agency based in Minneapolis, MN that lives by the motto that “simpler is better.” The “Mono”face site lives up to that motto by presenting visitors with a fun and simple Flash application that allows them to sculpt a Mr. Potato Head style face that contains 759,375 entertaining possibilities.

(http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/best-flash-sites)

See the site here: Monoface

A question which came up in class yesterday was “what happens if you remove a person’s mouth?” Someone answered “you remove their identity”

If this is correct, it means that by changing the features on a person’s face we also changes the person’s identity.

But then what about plastic surgery? Does a person changes his/her identity just because he / she faar nose embellished a little?

Draft

siriswebart — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:51:05 +0000

Inspiration

siriswebart — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:13:41 +0000

FLASH SITE:

http://www.enila.fr/

www.enila.fr

Concept II

siriswebart — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:29:23 +0000

During last lecture in Web art and design when we watched a couple of videos which inspired me to develop my concept further. I will keep the main theme but maybe change the look of it a little to make the site a bit more exiting. One page can consist of plenty of pictures of people placed in a grid and surrounded by words. When you click on the words, the pictures of all the people that relate themselves to the specific word will become larger (zoom).

It will also be possible to click on the pictures of the different people. A new page will open up and we will see the person holding a note with a word on. This word will change frequently as the poster is disturbed by a bad TV-signal and the channels are switching. Another idea is that the pictures are placed in a photo album instead of just one picture in a frame. I think this will give me the opportunity to make the site more exiting. I can put several elements in every page.

I have also decided that the site will start with an intro page. I haven’t really decided how it’s suppose to look yet but I will most likely use some kind of animation. Maybe it will be words that moves over the screen. I will publish some pictures when I have made a draft in Photoshop.

True Identity?

siriswebart — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:05:09 +0000

A nice picture i found while searching for True Identity.