Pictures I might be using on my website

http://www.exploringlasvegas.com/nightclubs/lax/lax_nightclub_las_vegas.jpg




http://media.photobucket.com/image/nightclub/falling_star_2008/nightclub.jpg

First Influences

http://www.fabriclondon.com/
http://www.fbmayfair.co.uk/main.html
http://www.amikalondon.com/
http://www.themayfairclub.co.uk/
http://www.embassylondon.com/embassy/london/
http://www.thepenthouselondon.com/

First HTML practise

Hi

This is a google tag

FLower

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Oranges

Bananas

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Proposal 1st draft

Proposal: Designing for the Internet Project

Funky House – the new nightclub in Kingston

Concept:

After working on various different ideas I finally decided to create a website of a new fictional club called “Funky House” which I opened in Kingston. My first ideas were creating a website which would compare the top universities from five different English speaking countries but after presentation the idea to the class I decided to go back to all my other ideas and decided to work on the idea of a club which I was personally most interested.

I am motivated to create a website about a club as I have always been interested in the design and style of places such as clubs, bars and restaurants and its interior design. I am also a passion dancer and love all sorts of music and one place in which I could bring in all my ideas at ones would be a club. My target audience are mainly students but the club also features night for “over 21 only”. So the audience would be broad as I will have different nights with different music every day. The majority of people who will be coming to Funky House will be Kingston students. I do not want the club to be a so called “student’s club” but want to give it a classy, posh and stylish touch. The club can be compared to clubs in Mayfair and Leicester Square but the entry costs and drinks costs will be comparable to the other local clubs in Kingston so the price does not come into the way of students.

The main concept of Funky House which makes it different to other clubs is the fact that it has a different theme every night. E.g.:

Mondays: Bhangra night

Tuesdays: Arabic night

Wednesdays: Salsa night

Thursdays: House night

Fridays: Funky house & Hip hop night

Saturdays: 21+ only (international music)

This goes hand in hand with McLuhan’s concept of the “world is a global village”. The club will have an international staff and will invite DJs and artists from different countries which make it multicultural. The main focus of the club will be diversity. Every night at the Funky House will be different and featuring music from different cultures. Local artists- such as Kingston music and dance students will get the chance to perform at the club which give the club a more down to earth touch and will avoid the club to spend a big amount of money to get famous artists to come and will give students a chance to show their skills.

Project Timeline:

Week 1-5: As mentioned previously I have been working on other ideas throughout the first 5 weeks and have changed the topic of my website various times therefore I will not go into detail of my previous work but will start off from the time when I finalised my project. In week 3 I thought about the club Idea for the first time and started researching online and tried to come up with a name and its special features. As I do not want to share the previous timelines I had created before starting the finalised project I will be giving a short insight to what I did from week 1 until week 5 and then add the timeline I set for the future.

Week 1: Introduction to the module (I missed the session this week due to illness but tried to gain information from my classmates). I read the module guide and tried to find useful inspiring websites.

Week 2: Introduction to Dreamweaver and refreshment of Photoshop. This week I started thinking of ideas for the final project. Getting familiar with Mc Luhan’s concepts “medium is the message” and “world is a global village”. Creation of my blog!

Week 3: First ideas

· website about London for tourists

· website which compares London’s top 5 shopping spots

· website about my own new shopping mall

· website about my new club in Kingston

· website which compares universities from 5 different countries

I started working on a few of those ideas but still very unsure on what exactly to do. I tried to find links to McLuhan’s ideas and started thinking of logos. I did a few Photoshop exercises and refreshed my flash skills. I also looked back to my Digital Media Project from first year in which I used FLASH.

Week 4: Now I started working on the idea of comparing universities from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. I did a lot of research on various universities and looked up their rankings on websites such as guardian.com and timesonline.com

Week 5: Created my presentation about the universities on Power Point. I did some more exercises on Photoshop and also made a storyboard.

Week 6: Presentation day. I presented my idea and was not satisfied with the feedback therefore spent many hours thinking about another idea and finally decided to go back to the Club Idea and felt very motivated to work on it. I finalised it today afternoon and have been working on it ever since. I realised that I am most passionate about it as I have always wanted to open up my own club. I have made a flowchart and a storyboard, I have decided which colours I will be using and have been creating a few design templates in Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Hand in the final Proposal!

Week 7: By week 7 I want to have all my pages, colours, the logo and the design of my website finalised. Chose the soundtrack and start creating navigating websites. Research more about clubs in London and Kingston and compare them. This week we get introduced to HTML so start working with codes and production.

Week 8: Finalise all images which I want to use and by week 8 I want to have already worked on the images in Photoshop. Editing Editing Editing!

Week 9: Project development! Try to bring things together: sounds, images, videos

Week 10: Create the final presentation and work on the project. Make the presentation clear so that the class gets an exact idea of what I want to do.

Week 11: Present my website and after getting feedback work on my mistakes and improve the work

Week 12: Upload all the files, register with search engines and website maintenance. FINAL work!

Project Requirements:

1) A MAC computer with the following programmes:

§ Dreamweaver

§ Photoshop

§ Flash

§ After Effects (maybe)

2) Digital Camera: to take pictures which I want to add to my gallery section and videos of musicians and friends who I interview for reviews

3) Friends/Classmates who agree on letting me take their pictures and act in my videos

Project Description:

I want the website to have a glamorous, classy and elegant look. The design should be stylish and tacky yet have funky elements which avoid boredom while looking through. The sound should be catchy, fresh and fast but not annoyingly loud or distracting. I want the background to be black and use a golden font. The 5 main pages are:

Ø About us

Ø Events

Ø Membership

Ø Gallery

Ø Home

The first site is going to have a “funky” background and the name of the club “Funky House” and an enter button bellow the name. The sound will already start playing and will change by entering the website.

(Words: 1,240)

Change of topic

After today's presentation in class I changed my mind about doing a website on universities. Instead I have gone back to my older idea about doing a website about my own club called "Funky House".

More ideas:

•How do I link that to “Medium is the message”?

•Students rely on online information while deciding which university to go to

•Many universities -> only way to apply is online (UCAS in the UK)

5 Universities

5 Universities (for media)

•UK: Warwick

•USA: University of California

•Canada: University of Toronto

•Australia: Australian National University

•New Zealand: University of Auckland

Preparation for the Presentation which needs to be presented next monday:

• First ideas
• Concept
• Narrative
• Photoshop, Dreamweaver, After Effects
• Deadline
• Inspiration