Linking buttons to videos

Once you have clicked a video button, it was essential that the video actually played. This was ensured by the coding of each button. For example, 'scene 1' 'outtake 1' and 'play movie' buttons, were buttons that needed to be linked up to the appropriate videos. This was done by telling the system what file needed to be played. I made sure the videos were saved as SWF files. I coded the buttons so, once clicked, the software would recognise the file and play it.

Target audience - is mainly aimed at people who drive and regularly use car parks.

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Message of the film - to indicate that dangerous driving in public car parks can be hazardous and it can cause dangers to others.

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Technical elements - It will include different screens such as play movie, scenes, outtakes and subtitles.

This was another tricky part to the building of my front end because without these links the videos would not play and my front end would be extremely pointless.

Impact of the film on the audience - slightly humorous so the audience do not get the impression that I am accusing them of being bad drivers.

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New skills reference: Skill 28

Linking different forms using buttons

The different forms needed to be linked together to make the navigation of the front end usable. This was done by linking the buttons to different forms. For example, although the scene selection button was on the main menu screen, once it is clicked it takes you to the scene selection screen where there are more options.  

Target audience - is mainly aimed at people who drive and regularly use car parks.

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Message of the film - to indicate that dangerous driving in public car parks can be hazardous and it can cause dangers to others.

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Technical elements - It will include different screens such as play movie, scenes, outtakes and subtitles.

This relates to the technical elements because it was a tricky part of the process in building my front end. I had to select the appropriate buttons by remembering the instance names i gave them. Then I had to import these into the correct line of code and declare it.

Impact of the film on the audience - slightly humorous so the audience do not get the impression that I am accusing them of being bad drivers.

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New skills reference: Skill 27

Creating a gallery of stills

I created a gallery of stills screen for my front end. The gallery of stills screen works like a screen with buttons. The buttons are replaced with images. As you hover over the image they enlarge and as you move the mouse away from it it resumes to its normal size. This fitted in with my client breif with the design becasue I planned to include a gallery of stills and I carried out that plan. It also fitted in with the technical elements and the target audience. The gallery of stills is a form of about twelve driving related images. They hope to raise awareness of safe driving. I created the gallery of stills by adding in a new form to the front end. The new form had no buttons just still images. I made sure I used the different button properties to ensure that the images had the 'over effect'.

Target audience - is mainly aimed at people who drive and regularly use car parks.

The gallery of stills page relates to the target audience because it is driving related. All of the images are associated with driving and this is likely to relate to the people who use car parks regualarly.

Message of the film - to indicate that dangerous driving in public car parks can be hazardous and it can cause dangers to others.

The stills for can relate to the meesage of the film becasue some of the still images are related to the hazards around driving, therefore getting the message across.

Technical elements - It will include different screens such as play movie, scenes, outtakes and subtitles.

The gallery has a few technical elements such as tusing the 'over' technique and the coding used to produce the form. This form included one button only which was a back button to return to the extras screen.

Impact of the film on the audience - slightly humorous so the audience do not get the impression that I am accusing them of being bad drivers.

The imapct of this screen was not humorous and did not necessarily apply to this section of the client breif.

New skills reference: Skill 17