Completeing the project

After i had completed my testing and made my improvements, i was then able to publish my programme and hold my end of project review. during my end of project review i met with my senior manager and we discussed my progress during the project

• whether my final product met my objective which were set in the definition of scope


• how i managed the project overall


• how well i organised my client and senior manager


• tools in which i used to communicate my progress

this meeting was vyer succesfull and my senior manager was please with my overall outcome, although i met all but one of my objectives my overall software was completed well.

Testing problems

I had come accross many problems when testing my software whihc i had documented in a seperate document. I had problems with things such as

• Creating my quiz. each shape had its own place on the quiz and whenever i try to move another object another would move out of place. this problmes was very frustrating when creating my quiz as i had to remake all of my quiz pages.

• Another problem i had was using the dynamic text on my quiz. when playing my quiz not all of the question would appear on the screen, i could change the status of the text as dynamic text was needed inorder to change to the correct answer. i edited the text box in order for the text to fit.

Test Scripts

I had created a test script which the users will use in order to test each section of my programme. i have created a test scrips on the navigation, quiz, infomation pages, video, animation and any further comments my users want to add in order to help me improve the programme. Below is a copy of my test script including bux fixes that took place to improve any issues with the programme.

Test plan

I had created a test plan which documents the task and responsabilities whihc took place when testing my final product.

below is a copy of my testing:

monday 28th

Today i published my final product, this was a simple step but the last step i had to do in order to complete my project. I opened my homepage on flash and clicked on file, i then went to publish settings, a window opened up where i had to select the format, i chose Windows Projector (EXE) as my application, i then named my programme healthy eating and clicked OK. my programme was then published.

Friday 18th

Today i finished editing my final video with the white text and inserting the music in the back round. i edited the video using windows movie maker which is a programme i have on my laptop so i was able to edit the video at home. I simply inserted each video clip whihc i filmed on my video camera and cut each clip to lthe length i thought was best suited. I added transitions so that each clips flows through to the next one by fading to black. I also added text over the video clips to tell the audicnce what i am doing in the clip, this was simply inserting text and changing the font.

i then had to add some music to make the clip seem more interesting. i had chosen an artist called example as he is a very well known artist for the ages 11+ which is my target audiance, he music makes the clip more upbeat and flow better. i have chosen three of his songs so that the transition between each songs isn't too obvious. Ialso changes the volume of the song so that it doesn't over power the video i simply clicked on the music tool and lowered the volume.

i found it very easy to use windows movie maker as i have been using this programme for another subject so i was use to all the tools, i believe that my video has been edited very well and shows a great example. To upload my video onto my flash document i had to use Adobe Media Ecoder to convert it to a FLW file Video then simple import it onto my libary.

Wednesday 16th

Today i edited a small section of my video and included some voice overs to test whether voice overs were the best option. i had a trial run and tested my voice over video on some students ages 11-13. After receiving their feedback, they had said that the voice overs were to confusing and fast for the video, which meant they couldn't follow the voice overs and found them rather annoying. After receiving this feedback i then had a meeting with my client to discuss other ways of presenting the information. i thought of the idea of having text appear on the screen in a white font and have it transition from the bottom of the page to the top and disappear. we had decided on a white font so that is was easy to view the video still in the back round. After this meeting with mt client i had created a example of the video with the text and we both preferred this option, rather than voice overs.

Tuesday 15th

I started to film my video on Sunday 14th of February, i had decided to film at home in my own kitchen as it was the easiest option and the setting was better. i have only filmed the first half of my video, which is the heathlier dish with homemade chicken nuggets and homemade oven cooked chips. Today i will film the second half of my video, by deep frying my bought chicken nuggets and chips, i will be completeing my video today and then edit it tomorrow with my voice overs which i will create tomorrow as well.

Monday 7th

Today i started create my animation. i had already gathered the information for my animation so the information that will be displayed will just need to be pasted onto the flash document. I have also collected the the pictures i am going to use so i will just have to paste them too. once they have been pasted into the document i will need to create the motion paths for each one so that they move around the picture of the world. I will start by creating the tween for the world. i inserted the picture of the world onto my stage and double clicked on the image so that i can concentrate on that layer, in order for my image to rotate i had to insert fey frames every 90 degrees and then between each section add a clasic motion tween so that it rotates, below is an image to demonstarte:

my next step was to have the information fly in from outside of the stage. i first had to create the sahpe for the text and edit the colours and then inserted a text box and pasted the text into the text box, the first one i created was pizza from Italy. once the text and the back round shape was created i converted them both into a sybol so that they can move together. i then inserted a a key frame onto the time line where i wanted the symbol to start and the instered another keyframe at 50 where i wanted the symbol to end whihc would be on the stage. hald way through each keyframe i insterted a classic tween whihc will move the image from one position to the next. i then inserted another keyframe 1 monitue later down the time line and inserted another 50 seconds after that and created another clasic tween for the image to move off the screen with the last key frame being the image of the stage.

my last step was to insert the picture and have it fly out from behind the world and then dissapear off the stage at the same time as the information. to do this i pasted the picture onto the flash document stage and changed it to a graphic so that i could edit the alpha so it apears from nothing into a full image. i instered two keyframes 20 seconds apart and created a classic tween but chaning the alpha to nothing on the first key frame and to 100% on the last one, then inserted another key frame 30 seconds after that and moved the picture onto the stage by the information and created a clasic tween so it moves onto the screen from behind the world. my next step was insert another keyframe 60 seconds later and have the image move off the stage like the information by creating another classic tween.I repeated these steps for each piece of information until my animation was complete.

Thursday 3rd

Today i am creating my E-portfolio to present all my work for the examiner. To create the portfolio i used a programme called dreamweaver and created pages for each section and added link for each document.

Monday 31st

Today i am continuing writing my reviews. I have not yet completed my analysis review so will finish that today.

I have also started to put the information on to my project today, i had collected the information a while back but needed to finish my pages before putting it on. To add the information i simply added a text box to the page and inserted the information. To do this i clicked on the text tool on the right in flash and clicked where i wanted the text to go, i then simple inserted the text by copying and pasting it from my word document.

Thursday 27th

Today i started to write my review for the analysis stage. here is where i look back over my project proposal, definition of scopre and functional specification and review what i have done. i have answered questions such as

• What should have been achieved:


• How well it was achieved:


• Was it completed on time?


• did you need to use contingency time? why?


• What problems did you encounter?


• How did you deal with them?

once i have completed this review, during the stages of my following work i will complete a planing and design stage review as well as a current status of making stage reviews which will included the same questions but focus on the certain stage.

MONDAY 31st

Today i finished all of my reviews including planning and design stage as well as current status of making review, below are copies of all my reviews:

analysis:

planning and design:

current status:

Tuesday 25th

Today i had a meeting with my manager to discuss my progress so far. we discussed topics such as video decisions such as the location, what equipment i will be using. I have not yet decided on the location but have narrowed it down to tow places, the kitchen at school in the food technology room, to use this room i will need permission from my client who is head of food technology at Heathside School or i will use my kitchen at home. Instead of using the IT department cameras i have decided to use the Media department cameras as i am able to get access to them with permission from Mrs Michael's who is head of Media studies. I have chosen to use these cameras as they are better quality and the department also have tripods available to use so that i am able to get a steady shot when filming. we also discussed the progress of my quiz which i had started last week during my Tuesday lesson. During last weeks lesson i had not completed my quiz but had almost finished, i had found some issues with my quiz that i was struggling with so had used my lesson today to fix these issues and have now completed my quiz.

When clicking on my quiz, when you get to question three and once you have clicked on the answer the question is meant to disappear but due to a fault in my creation the question did not disappear after looking through each page i discovered that my question was converted into a symbol button with the border around it which meant that the action script which controls it could not pick up that it was dynamic text as it was a button instead. This was easy to fix as all i had to do was cut out the text from the button and paste it in place.

my next task was to add a replay button to the end of my quiz so that my audience could do it again if they wish. This was very simple as all i had to do was create a button by pasting an image onto the page and converting it into a symbol, once i had completed this i had to add an action script to the button so that it links back to the beginning. The Script i added was:

on (press){

gotoAndPlay(1);

}

Once i had completed all of these tasks i then needed to fix my last problem where he total for the quiz was not appearing in the dynamic text box on the last page. I realised that i needed to add an action script to the dynamic text to do this i right clicked on my action layer, clicked on the action button and added in the script:

_global.quiz_score

question_answer.text="you have scored..."

+quiz_score

stop ()

This then allows the answers from each question to be totaled and appear on the last page.

Monday 24th

i have recently received my draft marks for my planning and proposal works, i can see that i need to improve on some of my pieces of work but overall i think that not too much work needs to be done. i had received a 4/6 for my proposal as my draft mark but to get a higher mark i need to discuss how my product is going to be particularly helpful for that particular audience - what are the needs of that age group?

for my planning section my draft Mark was a 7/12, i received this mark as i had not stated specific dates on my timeline, i needed dates to show how long it will take and how many days i have allocated to complete the task. To increase my planning marks i could also improve on my risk analysis by creating an table and writing the risk and then putting next to them the solution and mesures taken to reduce or fix the issues.

Today i have been improving on these marks.

Tuesday 18th

Today i was creating my quiz and linking the pages so that my score will add up once an answer had been clicked on. i had to create each question page on the same document but on different layers.

i then had to creat an action on each layer telling the movie to stop at each page but also to help the score add up. this is the action i entered. _global.quiz_scorescore.text-quiz_scorestop()

i then had to put an action on each answer available. for the incorrect answer i entered this:

on (press){ _global.quiz_score

score.text=quiz_score question_answer.text= "Incorrect"

answer_3._visible=false;

answer_4._visible=false;

answer_5._visible=false;

}

And if the asnwer was correct i added this action:

on (press){ _global.quiz_score

quiz_score=quiz_score+1; score.text=quiz_score question_answer.text="Correct"

answer_3._visible=false;

answer_4._visible=false;

answer_5._visible=false;

}

both of these action will help to add up the total score for each question and will give a total at the end.

i also had to make the Score text box into dynamic text and named it score so that the score can be added up and will display there.

I also created arrows on each question page so that the audiance can go to the next page once they have answered the question. i changed these arrows into buttons by converting it into a symbol then i added an action to the button so that it will link to the next page. the script i added to these buttons were:

on (press){ gotoAndPlay(4);}

the number changed according to which page it was leading too.

Tuesday 6th

Today i went back an checked on all my work i have completed so far, during the holidays i have selceted the information im using in my project but have yet still to put it into my project, i also have created my questions.

I have updated my gantt chart today. when i first created my gantt chart i had forgotten to include contingency time so i added in my contingency time today but had to decrease the time as i have not yet completed my video.

I added contingency time at the end of my Making stage so that i am able to leave time to make any adjustments that my client wants me to make. to do this i just right clicked in my menu bar and added new task and renamed it Contingency Time.

I then wanted to change the colour of my contingency time so that is was easy to spot compared to all of my other tasks as it is different. To do this i right clicked on my contingency bar and went to task properties. i was then able to select a different colour by clciking on the colour btton circled in black. there were many options to choose from as you can see but i though that a yellow would be best suitable as it stands our from the pale blue whihc makes it easier to identify if need be.