Tuesday 6 December 2011

Images for my teen pregnancy website

Wikimedia commons is a website that offers a range of copyright free images. These images relate to my campaign very well. The images from this website are not the only images included in my website as i have taken some images at home using my camera and then edited them accordingly.

Monday 14 November 2011

Futher Research into availible info on Sexual Awareness

www.fpa.org.uk
 Talking sense about sex.

It's not a very good website in terms of availibity as you have you go looking for it to be able to find it. Its a very mature site as it looks very formal. It looks like its aim more at the parents of sexual active teens or the older generation who have questions about the things that happen as a result of a relationship whether it be a good or bad one.
For an example if your in a abusive relationship or have been sexually assulted than it offers information on where you are able to get the help it is that you need.

It has a variaty of information that is availible to you about STI's and the contraception.

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Monday 7 November 2011

LOGO

This is my campaign logo the i have created

Research on Sites related to My Main Task (teen pregnancy)

Available sites include:
  • Stand up Girl is an American site its a very good example of the type of campaign i want to create it has many similar features that I'd like to include in my campaign too for example 24hr hotlines that you can contact to seek out help on a one to one basis, a blog page about other teen mums,an inside view on a few thing such as pregnancy symptoms and alot of information on things like what will happen in each month of your pregnancy. It helps girl who are pregnant, their partners and those around them e.g. friends to understand more about what it is that happens when having a baby.
http://www.standupgirl.com/?gclid=CJbOhpy8pKwCFcgc4QoddjhI_g
  • Teenpregnancy.org is an non-profitable organization. Their goal is to educate humanity about the individual soul's right to life in order to fulfill its divine plan. Its a charity to who try get girls to choose an alternatives to abortion.
http://www.teenage-pregnancy.org/?gclid=CKnIprK7pKwCFQUaQgodTG1DDA
  • The NHS offer information on all things surrounding pregnancy from finding out if you are pregnant to aftercare and what the vital thing for a baby are.
http://www.nhs.uk/planners/pregnancycareplanner/pages/teenagers.aspx
  • Brook is a local support team that helps those under 25 that is free and confidential. Their there to hlep stop unplanned pregnancy from happening they go to upper schools and give free contraception  to those who need it.
http://www.brook.org.uk/pregnancy

Friday 4 November 2011

Time Management

In order to get my Main Task finished by the Deadline I made a Plan: 
  •  Research in areas the same as my main task and write notes to help me with my written content. DONE BY12/12/11
  • Create a Logo for my Campaign.DONE BY 08/11/11
  • Create a House style for Campaign. DONE BY14/11/11
  • Create a navigation bar which would make it easy to get around the website.DONE BY14/11/11
  • Write a script for the audio footage that will be include in the website. DONE BY 15/11/11

  • Storyboard the video which will be on the website.DONE BY 23/11/11

  • Film and record video,picture and audio footage.DONE BY 25/11/11

  • insert this footage into appropriate areas. DONE BY6/12/11 

  • Insert all the written Information included in the website.DONE BY8/12/11


While doing all these things I'll always be gathering information which will help me in the long run with my campaign.  As i am making the video audio and written content myself the website will be copy-right free entirely. 

Chosing a Campaign

After looking into many other charities and campaign websites i choose which campaign I'd like to support by creating a website which would help inform others.

My chosen campaign will be about Teen Pregnancy 

Research on The Main Task

Local Charities
In Dunstable there are many charity shops that help the less fortunate for an example Oxfam,Y M C A,Age UK, British Heart Foundation and the Salvation Army.
to get some insight on what other charity website are like i first look at these. I noticed that all of these charities have .org.uk at the end of there sites web addresses this means that they are organisation.

Tuesday 18 October 2011

the Beginnings of my Preliminary

www.wix.com/irfarrow/media-prelim

More Research

As research I've also looked at Roedean private school for girls( http://www.roedean.co.uk/ ) and Eton grammar school for boys( http://www.etoncollege.com/ ) to see their layouts 

Website Research

For research into the creation of my website on schools i looked into the website of some of my local school which include Queensbury upper school's site (http://www.qusonline.com/) and Manshead upper school's site(http://www.mansheadschool.co.uk/).
I found using these quite usful as i can refer to these sites for idea on things like how to layout my site.

Tuesday 11 October 2011

TIMEPLAN

The deadline for my Preliminary Exercise is the 21st October 2011 

The deadline for my Main task is due for Christmas 2011

Research and Planning

The first thing i must do for my coursework is:
  • To find appropriate research into similar product
  • Find a potential target audience.
  • Create a logo for campaigen.
  • Take some photographs of the school.
  • Organise the homepage of website
  • Time management 

Media Studies Foundation Portfolio Brief

I will be producing a media artefact where i will be carrying out two two tasks from my chosen brief. The brief i have chosen is Website as from the four briefs (Print, Video, Audio, Website) as i feel most comfortable with this brief.

The Preliminary Exercise includes making a homepage for a school. this will include a photo of the institution, buttons to provide easy navigation to other areas of the site and appropriate welcoming text. There should also be a working hyperlink to a media department page, also with photo. the task aims to demonstrate understanding of the software and of webpage conventions.
The Main Task  is to create a campaign website including sound and video for a campaign (ep political, health, charity, enviromental). The site will include a logo, original photographs, (minimum of four per candidate), written text, audio, video and easy navigation. if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce at least four pages for the site, following the same house style.