Progress Presentation

On Friday 13th January we had to do a presentation to our tutors to show the progress of our Final Major Projects. I went first and showed my site and the games I had created to my tutors. They said they liked what I had done so far because Flash is a learning curve for me. However they said I should animate the character in some way so he's not static. They also said I should add sounds to the site and voice overs. They suggested I put the pictures in frames like they do on other kids sites like CBeebies for instance. So I have took their feedback onboard and will start to make the changes to my site. I will firstly look at making the character wave by finding a tutorial that I can follow to achieve this.

Design of the site (Continued)

I created four scenes one for the stadium, one for the Aqua Centre, one for the Basketball Arena and one for the Velodrome. When the user goes to the Venues page on the site they would click on one of the pictures of the venues and this would take them to a new page that told them the events that were staged in that venue. So each page would look like the one below apart from it would have a different background.

Here is the Venues page with the buttons created so when the user clicks on one of the images it takes them to that venue page. So if they click on the Olympic Stadium it will take them to the Olympic Stadium page.

Creating the Character

I decided to create a cartoon character called Ali the Aligator to go on my site. I chose an aligator because I didn't want to go down the path of using a Lion, Dog, Cat to be the character of my London 2012 site because they have been used before. Also I didn't want to use the official olympic mascots because I don't like them. So I decided on an Aligator because you don't associate them with the UK because if I had used a dog or Lion they have been used in branding the UK before. Below are my drawings of Ali the Aligator:

Once I had drawn Ali in Adobe Illustrator I imported him to Flash so I could add him to pages on my site. I added him on the home and venues page with speech bubbles as you can see by the images below:

New Logo

After feedback from my tutors I redesigned the logo for my site. I still incorporated the colours of the olympic rings as you will see below.

I wanted the logo to stand out more than the previous one and I think this one does.