Improving Logo & Wireframe

Wireframe 4

Nottingham Writers' Studio

met our client Robin for the first time yesterday to gather ideas about what he wanted for the site and thoughts on the current NWS site. made a doc. above of what is wanted and what pages etc. Robin made is clear he thought the current site was redundant & needs a coherent design. pages to be kept the same as current site but condense down more as a lot of info. is repeated on different pages. design needs to grab attention and we are free to change the logo and pretty much use any colour scheme we like.

Desktop & Mobile Site

Desktop site is nearly finished just need to find a good lightbox to show on portfolio page. 2 weeks left and still pretty clueless on how to do the mobile site.

Photographer Sites.

Having a look at some photographer sites to get some ideas. Have decided on making a desktop site and to then make a simpler mobile version site.

The pages Liam wants Are
Home
About
Portfolio
Links
Contacts

http://www.stevenbrooksphotographer.co.uk/ This is really simple but the idea of navigation, images moving and contact is what we want to achieve.

http://www.joonsworld.no/ Wayyyyyy too complicated for me but looks amazing.

http://www.dimitristheocharis.com/ Simple colours, images used are relevant to each other. Good font used.

http://www.littlehellos.com/index.php Yet again couldn't do this as I can't illustrate but looks goooooood.

http://www.danielkennedy.com/ Easy to do and looks pretty good, issue is it looks good because the photos are really good quality, not too sure what images Liam wants to use yet..

Also came across http://www.emmanuelrouzic.com/ takes a while to load but looks so creative.

Entrance & Cart For Haunted House..

Now I have decided on a theme for my animation I need to think of the extras such as music I will use, entrance, cart and props.

Signs at the entrance usually say "Ride not recommended for the faint of heart," "Turn back now," and "Not responsible for dying.

Most of these rides have some sort of cart that seats two or three
individuals and moves along a predefined track. The motion and speed of thecart is not particularly fast but filled with quick, jerky turns. As the cart turns, the riders view props and scenes that are intended to elicit a shriek or scream.

Ideas for my cart:

I did like the pumpkin cart idea for the theme which I have now decided on however it will be really hard to make on 3dsmax so I may have to keep to a simple square cart with space for one child. I also like the idea of a sweet which will go with the trick or treat title. The sign entering the haunted house will say "Enter If You Dare.."

Entrance:

Pasaje Del Terror

When I went to blackpool we went to the Pasaje Del Terror haunted house read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasaje_Del_Terror

In which visitors walked around the house to see real people as the scares. It was really scary & I thought if I did the death/murder scene I could have some ideas from Pasaje Del Terror.

This video is really bad quality that I found but shows the possessed girl scene which was so frightening!



I could perhaps have a scare of a bed with a possessed person on it if i choose to do this theme.

I'm still undecided what theme to choose from; halloween or death! :(

Theme & Moodboard

I had the first intial idea to create my haunted house animation based for young children with the theme of halloween. The scares would be props such as witches, pumpkins and ghosts.

The track could go through the mouth of the pumpkin with flashing lights to create the idea of it looking like a candle burning.

Witches on broomsticks could be flying over head whilst the cart is moving.

Ghosts are a common theme of halloween and most children will find ghosts spooky and associate them with the theme.

The name of "Trick Or Treat" could work well.

I then however, decided that the theme of halloween may not work that well for a haunted house due to the event only happening once a year. Children do enjoy halloween but it may seem a bit of a pointless ride to have apart from in the month of october.

I then had the idea of perhaps changing the audience to an older generation such as teenagers / young adults as I could have more of a "scarier" theme such as vampires, dracula etc.

I came up with the theme of death/murder and my ride would somehow tell the story through the 3 rooms of the lead up to the murder, the death and the graveyard. When thinking about names I had "The Dead Reunion" "Death" and maybe including something and "red" which connocates with blood and danger.

I created a moodboard for both halloween and death theme as the death theme would mean creating skeletons and deathly people on 3dsmax which could be really difficult so will ask Roma and my tutor Andy which idea would work best.

Halloween Theme Moodboard:

Death/Murder Theme Moodboard:

Design For Ident..

The first image is doodling I did in the drawing seminar. This gave me ideas for my ident to do my name & I then did the blog on the living tv idents in which I liked the idea of the balloons with my name. I don't know how well this will work on 3dsmax but will give it a try! :)