Final Sites: Web Docs

Due November 9th as a web page:

• Abstract
  Please write a 3-5 sentence concise description of your project idea.
• Full Description
  1000-2000 Word description that includes the following: Describe in detail the project topic and the content - how you will address the topic. List the media the site will present, including icons, photos, illustrations, video and or audio. Please describe the intended audience.
• Wireframe
  Create a wireframe to represent the desktop layout for your project. You may do this with paper and pencil, Illustrator or Sketch or online tools such as moqups or Figma.

Final Projects will be evaluated by three components equally: Creativity & Design, Technical Breadth, Professional Presentation. Completed projects should reflect a sense of ambition and dedication toward realization. Final Porject due by the end of class December 7th.

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Suggested Process

1. Step 1: Establish a question that you are interested in engaging. This may be a social, political, educational, journalistic or entirely fictional/creative topic of investigation.
2. Step 2: Address this question by developing a process of production that addresses the question. The process doesn't necessarily need to arrive at an answer, but it should establish a new perspective.
   1. Research the question. What has your question meant to other people, how have they addressed it? Establish an informed background for your question. Archive your research, it may be a research to share with others. The archive may consist of text, links, images and keep a list of your sources.
   2. In your general physical environment, does the element you are questioning exist? If so, in what form and why? Do people interact with the question/subject at hand? Use photography or audio or video to document the objects/manifestations of the question at hand.
   3. How do people generally interact with the problem and if people do not, how could you create a means of interaction?
3. Begin Production: Write a brief statement of goals for your project. Narrow your form of presentation. Will it be text with video production or audio or photography or illustration, graphics and design…?
4. Post Production: Edit all your content into a web accessible format.
5. Web Presentation/Distribution: Establish a title. Primary graphics - is an icon/branding appropriate? Choose a decorative font that is descriptive of your content. Establish a color scheme for your site. Organize your content into logical groupings:
   • About - a brief statement describing your project.
   • Primary content - photographs, collage, audio recordings, video…
   • Research and Resources (bibliography) - present links to your research.

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Project ideas

• Use the web as a creative medium - make an experimental interactive art project
• Create an interactive narrative using photography, video, text, hyperlinks...
• Choose a current issue that you are interested in, research it and create an informational web site
• Choose a historical event or issue that you are interested in, research it and create an informational web site
• Create or redesign a site for a not for profit or employer