Evaluation

Communication technology Website.

I decided to base my website on technology in sport as I have a passion for sport and felt this was a good way to incorporate something I am interested in and technology. I didn't really know a lot about technology in sport, so found researching for this topic very interesting and surprising at times. I did however find it quite difficult to research this topic as there wasn't that much information about technology in sport out there, I therefore had to make assumptions, however this paid off as I was able to find out more things from my assumptions as it made my research more diverse.
I found the recording of the video quite easy to do, the instructions were clear and we were able to get on with it. The editing, at the time seemed quite complex when first explained, however when it actually came to using final cut I found it quite easy, thus enabling me to really play around with my video. However I feel I have maybe messed around with my video too much, as it does look like I have tried to fit a lot of things into a short space of time. Overall though, I am quite pleased with my video and enjoy the fact that i didn't find it that difficult to actually do, thus giving me a more positive outlook on video editing. I feel I may want to use final cut again in my future work.
I found the tutorials for the website design quite useful, and I did make sure I wrote down all the notes to it, however I really struggled in making the website. I decided I wanted to make my website personal to me, so I decided to draw my background, this as soon as I started my website was an obvious mistake. I managed to cut up my background and place it into the tables, however I hadn't properly planned what I wanted on each page, therefore because my background was cut up I was unable to put a lot of information on the website pages, otherwise the background began to break up. Furthermore, due to this fact I couldn't make the text size very big on the pages as that too would break up the background, therefore I was really limited in what information I could put on my website. I then had a lot of trouble when linking my pages as the link didn't work to go back to my home page (instead it went to baviscom page), so a lot of time was spent trying to change the link. Therefore, I can't really say I enjoyed making the website as i couldn't put everything I wanted to onto it, and it caused a lot of trouble, which even the technicians found difficult to fix, therefore I am not saying I wouldn't consider doing a website again, but it wont be in the near future I will try to make another.
If I was to do this project again, I would definitely do things differently. Firstly I would break my video up into maybe two videos, therefore I could put everything I wanted to include into them, yet not feel so jam packed. I would also maybe, if I kept the layout of my website the same, place all the information that I couldn't fit onto the page into videos and place these on the pages. However I feel if I was to do this again I would definitely change my background to be less complicated, and therefore more flexible to use. Overall I did enjoy this project to an extent as I have learnt a lot of new skills, and also a lot of information on technology in sports itself, however, as stated before I really struggled with the website.