'News' Website
Visual Skills
Using Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Dreamweaver), produce a small coded website that meets professional standards both visually and technically.
At least one piece of motion graphics is to be integrate as a banner into your table or css based website, consisting of 6 or more connected webpages.
Your website should discuss one topic on the current national or international news (late 2012)
I chose to design my website around the ‘Olympic Legacy’ of ‘Inspire A Generation’ as sport has always played a large part in my family; from my parents taking part in sport in their youth, to myself and my brother both taking part in sports at County Level.
I have met Martine Wright; whom appeared as part of the GB Sitting Volleyball team for the London 2012 Paralympic Games; and also I attended the second day of the Paralympic Games in London. On this day, I saw for myself the emotion that is felt by the athletes and the crowds and the challenges the athletes face and overcome. I felt inspired by them.
For all of these reason, I chose to design my website specifically on the Paralympic Games.
Stoke Mandeville, and more importantly Stoke Mandeville Hospital, is ‘the home of the Paralympics’, being founded there in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann. These games were originally known as the ‘World Wheelchair and Amputee Games’. Stoke Mandeville is very local to my home in Tring, and I was born there. I have visited there many times since, for various reasons, and it has had a large part in my life.
The ‘Olympic Legacy’ has been in the news since it was announced to the public back in 2007. During last summer (2012), there were news articles on funding for school sports being cut and whether this is going against inspiring a younger generation. More recently, in December, there were articles on the funding cuts and how certain athletes have reacted to these, but also the names of athletes on the New Year’s Honours List. There were far less Para-athletes recognised for their achievements.
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