Evaluation C

Evaluation C on Prezi

Monitoring

As well as making improvements to some of my products, I have also started to write my evaluation. I have managed to make all of the improvements from my audience feedback to my poster, leaflet and magazine back cover. As well as moving onto the other evaluations this week I will also be making the improvements to my Iphone App and my magazine front cover. I am quite happy with how far I got last week with my improvements as it means I can spend more time on my Iphone App without having to rush it , as I still have plenty of time for now.

This week I am writing up Evaluation E today and tomorow, slight change to my schedule which says I am looking at Evaluation C tomorow. I have started work on evaluation E before the exam style lesson tomorow because I wanted to make sure I would get it all finished.  I will be writing evaluation C from Wedensday.

Improvements - Poster

I have now made some improvements to my poster based on the audience feedback I received. 

The differences are that I have changed the font of the text 'visit your school nurse today' to Calibri, as people thought it looked too much like a main title and it was meant to be just a statement therefore shouldn't be as large or similar as the main title at the top. I also changed the background to be one colour rather than a gradient, as you couldn't really see it was a gradient with the images and text covering the poster, therefore it looked like it had randomly got darker in the bottom right corner. I also switched the two logo's around as the blue NHS logo stood out more on the yellow than the school nurse logo that was of the same colour did. I also moved the text with words such as 'confidential,friendly' across the middle, into the red bit rather than above it, as people said it wasn't really that obvious and would stand out more in the red area which I think it does. 

Improvements- Back Covers

I have till the 10th April to improve my products, so I started by adding some improvements to the back cover of my magazine and also adding a back cover to the leaflet. I decided to have the other products on the back cover as a way of promoting them and also connecting the products as a brand to ensure people do know they're part of the same thing. I am also going make some small improvements to the inside of the leaflet magazine, poster and Iphone app over the next two weeks.

Products

Monitoring

Last week, I finished all of my products like intented too. I got them all finished by Friday afternoon. I am quite happy with how last week went, nothing went wrong and it was all finished to schedule. This week according to my schedule I was meant too finish my second article today, which I do not need to do now as its all finished. Tomorow was supposed to be the hand in but this was on Friday instead, so I don't need to worry about that either. On Wedensday this week my plan was to show my products to an audience so I can get feedback, this is still happening this week however I am doing my focus group tomorow , Tuesday, to get feedback so this works out better as I have more time to write my evaluation. My evaluation E is supposed to be wrote next week in exam conditions, but because I am doing my focus group tomorow I will have the rest of the week to start writing my evaluation which will give me a head start.

I think this week will go to plan, I have extra time to what I first intended. However, the schedule hasn't actually changed that much as I planned to have my focus group on Wedensday, its only a day earlier giving me the extra day to write my evaluation, so I have more of it completed for next week.

Last week I developed new skills within In Design, such as learning how to use text wrap for my magazine. I hadn't used the software before this product and now I feel fairly comfortable in it so I've definately improved my skills here. I feel confident in using layers and placing images/text in my products. I think my client would be happy with my progess as I have finished everything now, he doesn't have to worry that the products won't be completed on time or within the budget.

Now I have finished , I can say that I think my product does mirror my treatment objectives quite well. I have changed a few things such as image placement but the main ideas haven't changed or my products haven't changed, so I feel I have stuck to my treatment fairly well.

Magazine Article

I have now almost completed the second article, as shown below. I still have to add a few more lines to each part but for the most part its done. The area around it is done, so the only thing left to edit now is the text.

Magazine Article

I have now wrote one of the articles for my magazine, and also inserted it into my magazine and arranged the article properly. I have included quotes in the article, experimenting with in design and using text wrap to wrap my text around the images in the magazine. I am going to write the final article tonight and then tomorow I will insert the article into in design, which should be fairly simple as its not as long as the other article. After this I will be done with my products, I will go through them one last time tomorow night but I have nothing major I need to add now.

Monitoring

This week I had originally planned too create the magazine cover at the start of the week, and then move onto the article at the end of the week. I don't know why I only gave myself two days for the front cover, as really its took me around two weeks to keep playing around with it and changing little bits before I was happy with it, so i don't think I actually realised how much time I needed. I have finished the front cover for the minute, so the only thing left to do this week is write the articles. I think the time allocated for the articles is realistic, two days for the first and two for the second. I can however change this plan a little, and have the articles wrote by wedensday hopefully and then spend thursday touching up the front of my magazine to include more sell lines from the written articles. I managed to get my Iphone App finished in time, which is good. Its pretty simple but it was always going to be just a small product that didn't include too much. I did however add a page where you could book an appointment with the school nurse. I think it was really easy to create and I probably could have done more with the app if I had thought about it in more detail to begin with, as I feel it could provide more for students that what I've got in it. It all went smoothly with no complications, aside from the leaflet it was the most simple of the four products.

These are photos of my completed Iphone App pages that I created last week;

I learned a few more skills within Adobe Flash Player this week such as putting a glow on an image, for the glow I used on the lock. I also learned how to use effects on buttons such as when hovering over the arrow it changes to a different color. I think my client would be happy now that the product is drawing to a close and I am on track to have them all done by the end of the week. However I do think I could have possibly tried and spoke to the school nurse earlier so that I had the information ready to do my article now, I am speaking to her today but If I had planned this earlier I could have had it all ready.

My product from last week has changed slightly from my treatment, as I added a booking page to the app which I didn't plan to do. I don't think this is a bad thing however as I wanted something to bulk up the Iphone App more, and I think this page is a good idea to do that. I am confident that I will get the article finished this week and my magazine, which is the final product left to do. I did however wish to go back through my products and do any last minute changes, but I will probably not have time to do this now which I am disapointed about, but If i can get the articles finished by Wedensday I can spend Thursday having a quick look through them all to change little things.



Iphone App

I've edited some pages for my Iphone App In Photoshop over the last few days; they are pretty basic but I want the App to be simple anyway. It will have a front page that consists of text and a large lock which I will create in flash using an imported image of a lock and text created within photoshop first, and then it will have another page that links to different types of STI's, like this;

The pages with information with STI'S on will have text in the shape of a lock, and here's an example of what I intend them to look like;

Change Of Plans

I originally was swopped round from my schedule, writing my articles this week and my iphone app next week. However, after realising that I cannot get in touch with the nurse until Friday, I feel it will be best for me to do them the other way around. I can get my Iphone App completed by next Monday and by then I will have information on the school nurse to write my article effectively. I could attempt to write the article this week and then add stuff over the weekend but I think just swopping the two round will be easier as then I will have all the information ready to write next Monday.