Sunday, May 3, 2009

Downloads.

People can now download our Video on Web 2.0, our PowePoint Presentation on Web 2.0 and our Design Cycle which will describe our entire process.
Design Cycle- Blog




http://www.scribd.com/doc/14969501/Web-2-PowerPoint





Design

As we mentioned earlier in design brief and specification, we chose to make a video and a presentation for two different mediums to explain about Web 2.0 after a long discussion. We had three different designs at first, word document, presentation using MS Power point and short video using Windows Movie Maker, and we chose two of them, presentation and video for several reasons.


Design 1. Word Document
Word Document has quite a lot of advantages and disadvantages at the same time. First of all, it would be the most original and we can give more information to explain Web 2.0 on the word document. However, we thought it would be a bit boring and long which would not fascinate people to read this. Besides, to write in a Document, we should be really formal and using a proper technology word which is really strange to the normal people.
We decided that the final product is for everyone who both well knows about computer and doesn’t know about it at all, and we thought that it would be too difficult for them to understand what Web 2.0 is.
For these reasons, we decided not to make it in a Word Document.


Design 2. Presentation (Power Point)
Next, we thought about the presentation. We can explain about Web 2.0 easily with less word than the document. In addition, this could have lots of visuals such as pictures and videos to make people easy to understand the concept of Web 2.0 which is the ultimate purpose of this product. Images say more than what the words can say and it’s easier to understand the concept; images don’t need people to know about all the new professional vocabulary for explaining Web 2.0.
Like we said in Design Specification, this should be about 5 minutes long using the easy words so that we can hold the audience’s attention all the time and make them easy to understand. The information given in this presentation should be really precise and written in easy words as well. This also should contain pictures and hyperlinks to the good websites where more explanation is. However, we decided not to put the video in this unlike what we said in Design Specification. We thought it’ll be too long if we put the video in it; we believed that we better give them the links where they can learn more about Web 2.0 if they want.


Design 3. Video
We thought it’ll be the best way to explain what Web 2.0 is if we can actually explain it in our own words in front of the students and teachers like the IT class. However, we can’t do that all the time, and then we thought we could film it and show it to the people anytime and anywhere. Video also has quite a lot of advantages: it’ll be easy for people to understand what Web 2.0 is since we would explain it in our own words, it’ll be the more interesting than the presentation or the word documents so that it’ll always hold the audiences’ attention and it’ll be impressing visually and aurally. Besides, as we are filming this, we ourselves can also understand better about Web 2.0.
Ha Neul, Kashish and Young jun, all three of us, will be on the video for sure. This will be also less than 10 minutes long, otherwise it’ll be a bit boring and distracting. Like we said in Design Specification, it will have some serious parts, but interesting, not being serious, most of the time. We’ll be explaining the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 to make the audience easy to understand the main idea. We decided not to put the pictures in it unlike what we decided in Design Specification, because it’ll be too much to edit them since we have changed the time plan for Create due to the running our of time and it’s quite limited to edit the video with the Movie Maker.

So as we mentioned earlier we decided to make a video and a presentation for our final two different products. I think it’s really good to reckon the advantages and disadvantages of each designs to choose what to make. By the so, we could complete it better and think reasonably. It was also really nice to be detail how we are going to do it; we can plan how we are going to make them as we are designing which means that we saved some times as well.




Feedbacks:

Prashant: I really liked this video and thought that that the message was good as well.

Shamith: The message was fully relevant and enjoyed the video. I thought that they had some nice points which did clarify the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.

Hella: I liked the video but I thought that it was a little too carefree and should have been a little bit more focused. Otherwise the video was nice and so was the content.

Saj: nice video  I liked it very much and I can clearly see the amount of effort you guys have put into this project. Nice job once again guys.

Ali: there were some spelling mistakes: P but all was good. I likes your entire concept and thought that it was very well presented. You could have tried to improve the sound quality more; sometimes it was hard to listen to what you are saying.
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