Multimedia and Internet Technology
This log book must be handed in at the end of the current year.
This is an official record of assessments. Keep it in a safe place.
Your Name ______
P Number ______
Course ______
Tutor ______
Portfolio of Work
During this module you will create a portfolio of work consisting of two web applications each worth 50% of the overall module mark.
Work must be submitted to your tutor via ftp prior to the set deadline. Each assignment has a mid stage assessment point at which stage some of the work must be handed in prior to the final deadline.
Each application will be assessed by viva and it is up to you to manage your schedule to maximise your viva marks. All grades will be recorded on your eGrid (available from the module web site) and this log book.
Marks are also allocated to members of your team based on their engagement. Team engagement will be judged by on-going team performance. This grade will be awarded at the review session for each assignment. Any team members not deemed to have engaged with the work will not be awarded the grade. It is expected that all team members will make some claims for credit at all meetings with your tutor.
Team Log Keeper
In your team you must nominate a log keeper. It is the role of the log keeper to keep a log of meeting both with your tutor and outside of class hours. When your team has a meeting with your tutor you must get your tutor to sign off that the meeting has taken place and that the log is up to date. Your log must be handed in at the end of each assignment and it is from this that your team grade will be calculated.
Anonymity
Since this assessment is marked as part of a face to face discussion the University’s policy of anonymous marking will not apply.
Title / Weight / Deadline1 50% / Creating a comic book web site / 90% / 7th December
Team Engagement / 10%
2 50% / Multimedia News Service / 90% / 22nd March
Team Engagement / 10%
Schedule for Viva Marks
1 / 100 / 100
2 / 100 / 100
3 / 100 / 100
4 / 100 / 100
5 / 100 / 100
6 / University reading week / Hand in initial design
7 / 100 / 100
8 / 100 / 100
9 / 100 / 100
10 / 100 / 100
11 / Review week / Review week
Xmas / 0 / 0
Xmas / 0 / 0
Xmas / 0 / 0
15 / Review week / Review week
16 / 90 / 100
17 / 80 / 100
18 / 70 / 100
19 / 60 / 100
20 / 50 / 100
21 / University reading week / Hand in initial design
22 / 40 / 100
23 / 30 / 100
24 / 20 / 100
25 / 10 / 100
26 / 0 / 100
27 / Review week / Review week
Easter
Easter
Easter
31 / Review week / Review week
Contents
Penalties for Late Work 1
Penalties for Plagiarism 1
Working in Teams 1
Method of Assessment 2
Making a Claim for Credit 2
Five Minute Claim for Credit 2
Review Weeks 3
After the Review Week 3
Unclaimed Credits 3
Assignment 1 On-Line Comic Book 4
What is the purpose of this assessment? 4
What you need to do 4
Starting the Work 4
Finishing the Work 5
Marking Grid 1 6
Assignment 2 Web Based News Service 10
What is the purpose of this assessment? 10
What you need to do 10
The Animation 10
The Video 10
Starting the Work 11
Finishing the Work 11
Marking Grid 2 12
Penalties for Late Work
Deadlines for each assessment are listed above. Failure to meet a deadline will result in the normal penalties for late work being applied. Extensions will not be given without clear third party evidence such as a Doctor’s note.
Penalties for Plagiarism
In both of these assignments you will be trying to imitate an existing site as closely as possible without plagiarising it. This obviously creates a fine line that you must be careful not to cross. The point is that all work you submit should be original to you, created by you. Any questions of authorship of any item of work will result in a plagiarism hearing with the possible result of a zero grade for the module or even expulsion from the University.
Working in Teams
In meeting the requirements of the assessment there is a lot of work to complete and many concepts to grasp. You are going to need all of the help you can get in order to do well in this work.
In order to help you get to grips with the work you will be placed in teams. In the first week of an assessment you will be placed in teams of 4 – 5 and you will need to identify what work you need to achieve over the assessed period in order for you all to complete the task individually. During the course of the module you will have regular meetings with your tutor where you make claims for credit. You should note the weeks for these meetings on the schedule at the start of this document.
One task of your team is to ensure that each member is working on a unique project. No two people may be working on the same / similar projects and you should check with your tutor that the selected topics are acceptable.
If there is any reason why you are not able to work in a team then please discuss this matter with your tutor.
Note that even though you are working in a team your work is still individually assessed.
Teams may be modified at any point during the module by your tutor.
Method of Assessment
Your work will be assessed by viva. You have been provided with an eGrid (electronic marking grid) which will be completed by your tutor as a result of them interviewing you individually about your work. You have also been provided with this log book which is your hard copy record of the assessment process. Keep this safe and do not lose it otherwise you may have to claim for marks again.
To obtain marks you must make a claim for credit.
Making a Claim for Credit
The first stage in making a claim for credit is to complete a section of your portfolio work to a level where you consider it worthy of some marks. You may make a start on any of the three portfolio tasks as early as you like, this allows you to take more control of your work schedule.
Your tutor will award grades in the following bands for each part of the credit category.
Absent 0 %
Poor 25%
Good 50%
Very good 70%
Perfect 100%
Each item of portfolio work has a specific deadline, the rules for claiming credits change dependent on when you claim.
To obtain the top marks you will often be required to demonstrate a clear theoretical grasp of what you are doing. Your tutor may devise questions on the spot to really probe your understanding of the work.
Five Minute Claim for Credit
In the lead up to the deadline your tutor will draw up a schedule of team meetings. Your tutor will allocate a maximum of fifty minutes per lab session to meet with teams. Each member of the team is allowed up to five minutes to claim credits. Each member must make claims in turn and your tutor will cut the claim short if you are not able to answer questions in a concise manner in the time allowed. During these meetings a person may only claim from a single credit category.
These meetings feed directly into the way in which your team grade is calculated. You need to document the meetings and get your tutor to sign the documentation.
Making a claim for credit on work prior to the deadline allows you to claim credit for work that is not completed. This allows you to make a start on a section of work, find out what you need to do to improve and then claim for credit later on to improve your grade.
Review Weeks
During the review week there will be no additional material delivered. Two weeks are set aside per assignment and typically each team member will have about ten minutes to make claims. At this stage you have already handed in the work and no changes are allowed.
After the Review Week
Up until the review week the grade for a successful claim for credit is 100% once the review weeks are completed the available viva marks will be reduced each week. This means that the sooner you make a successful claim the better your grade will be. See the front of this document for the schedule of viva marks.
You may make claims for outstanding credits during any week of the module and also during subsequent review weeks.
Unclaimed Credits
At the end of the module it will be assumed that any unclaimed credits deserve zero marks.
It is down to you to make sure that you claim all of the credits that you think you deserve in plenty of time before the end of the module.
Assignment 1 On-Line Comic Book
What is the purpose of this assessment?
PhotoShop and DreamWeaver are both industry standard tools used to create multimedia products. In using these two tools together you will get to consider how to organise a website such that it presents multimedia content to a user in an effective way. You will also be introduced to some of the design artefacts used to create such a product. During this work you will be simulating the prototyping design process in that other teams will have opportunity to comment on your work and you get to select or reject designs based on this feedback.
What you need to do
Find a web site such as (but not) Den of Geek (www.denofgeek.com). Whatever site you select you need to imitate the look of and navigation model of that site and imitate it as closely as possible using your own graphics and style sheets. Once you have decided on the site you are going to imitate you need to start thinking about the main sections of the assignment.
You are required to select a short section from a film or TV show of your choice and present it as an on-line comic. Each page of the comic must be A4 in size with a thumbnail image used on the pages of the web site. The pictures in the comic must consist mainly of pictures you have taken yourself. Your work should not include pictures drawn in PhotoShop, images downloaded from the Internet or screen captures from the film (although a tiny amount taken directly from the film may be acceptable.) There is no set number of pages for the comic however six would be a good rule of thumb. The comic must have enough pages to be able to tell a story. The comic will be presented within a web site. The site needs to be a professional product not only presenting the comic but detailing the design process undertaken in producing the design. The site will have a main external style sheet for your finished design. You will also create a second skin for your site. The second skin is an external style sheet that when applied will change the colour scheme, layout and styling for the site.
Starting the Work
The Creative Brief
The creative brief should provide a written summary of the project stating what you are going to do, the nature of the target audience and the tone of the site. It should also detail testing which identifies the look and feel of the site, colour scheme and fonts. The testing should contain clear examples drawn from suitable sources.
Paper Based Designs
You will create a number of paper based designs for this work. There will be two designs for your two candidate sites. Also there will be a multi page paper based design for your comic book. This paper based design will illustrate how your pages will be set out and the content that needs to be photographed to finish the project. The paper based designs need to be scanned as JPEGs with correct orientation and ultimately presented as part of your site.
Wire Frame/Early Prototype
You are to create a wire-frame and an early prototype for your final site design.
Finishing the Work
You need to finish the pages for your comic book and complete the site presenting the work. Your site must also have a section for documenting your site. This section will contain all original photographs, PSD files and any other supporting documents used in creating your site. Remember this site is not just a student assignment but a public facing site with a target audience. Your site needs to be suitable for the intended audience and the documentation must not detract from this. You may if you wish link the documentation section from the site map and not the main site. Your site needs to include a suitable site map with links to pages and meaningful descriptions of the linked pages. During this last period you need to concentrate on setting up the second skin for the site.
At the deadline you need to submit your site via ftp. It is important to understand the creative brief will be an important measure of your site’s success.
Marking Grid 1
(See the eGrid for detailed weightings of each component.)
1 Creative BriefYou have written a creative brief that is professionally presented with no spelling or grammatical errors. The brief explains who the site is aimed at along with the proposed tone of the site. The brief contains testing that outlines the colour scheme, fonts and look and feel of the site. The brief also details the navigation model for consideration. The creative brief should contain a short explanation of why you have selected the navigation model.
Professionalism spelling, presentation and grammar
Identification of target audience, tone, look and feel, colour scheme and fonts
Testing with layout, graphics and fonts taken from target site
Selection of navigation model with reasoning
2 Paper Based Designs
You have created a set of paper based designs as JPEGs that are professionally presented and legible. The paper based designs for the wire frames should indicate the position of the navigation, the header, the footer, the main article text and any other positioning elements. The comic book paper based designs should clearly indicate the position of the main characters, speech bubbles, thought bubbles and captions.