Evaluation

As a part of my group project, we were given a task to produce a website by working as a group. The purpose was to programme a website by using WordPress and produce interactive content to help engage with the audiences. Since we were working as a group, we had individual roles and aims. My role was the project manager, and I was responsible for the major part of the project. This involved controlling the group based on setting up meetings; provide everyone with tasks and ensuring that everyone completes their part of their role. Not only that, it also involved me gathering the content for our website, which includes; the logo, photos, music and voice-overs. But our overall aim was to produce a website based on travelling and ensure our website was informing, so that our audiences can gain knowledge from the content about specific countries in the world from our viewpoint.

During the process of producing the content, I managed to work with different software’s, which includes; Photoshop, Illustrator, Sony Vegas, Wave Pad and Audition. I used Photoshop to help me make the website’s logo and enhance all the photos to make it better quality. Illustrator was used to draw out the logo to make the geometric shapes. Sony Vegas was used to create the videos, by combining the recordings of the voice-overs, music and the images. As for wave pad, it was used to amplify the voice recordings, which increased the clarity and loudness of the voices as some of them were very low. Also, since the recordings were combined with music in the background, it would have clashed which would have made the voices very hard to hear. But with the simple use of Wave Pad, it managed to solve that problem. Audacity was used to crop out the voices and combined them for recordings that were divided. 

In terms of constructing the website, I was able to work with different plug-ins that WordPress has provided. The Google Plug-in was very effective with establishing the location for each part of the destinations.

However, I did encounter some issues whilst creating the videos on Sony Vegas as kept unexpectedly freezing which meant I have to close I kept having to close the program and restart it, which led some my work being lost. Time management was the main problem was time management, as I ended up leaving the most hardest part of the project, last minute which was making the video. 

In terms of a group overall we did well in terms of gathering all the content together and adding them to the website.