cd rom

cd roms are used for files such as music files : mp3 and wma.

movie files: mpeg, mov, avi.

there are different size of disc you can get from 650mb - 900mb which equals to 72mins data.

the cd rom is used to transport data such a games, photos and music

web players

there are loads of web players and they all have different tranfer rates for example the bbc i player,

veoh,

youtube,

there are different bit rates, it goes on how big the file is and how fast the data is being trasfered from the server to the broadband to the computer screen, if the file size is small the the bite rate will be fast as the quality would be poor but if the file size it huge the tranfer rate would be slow but some times the quality is good.

the bbc i player has a variable bit rate which is how many people are on the same sever at once.

on some sites u change the quality of the video. there is a download limit on most internets eg vodafone and other mobile internets which and now for your laptops

spider chronicles site

there is alot of visual feed back you have the menu bar there are stars that light up the word, the expore book bounces, the seeing stones open up to a bar and you have little circles to show the secerts.

they made the book bounce by putting a movie clip in side a button

the chronicles of narnia site

the website has 14 png 32 images. the images are all rectangle and some of the images have drop shadows also the images have there own saying and some charachers have 2. the rectangles all have space that is inviserble

jcb song

the jcb site is made up of jpegs and a flash movie
and has 5 colloms
and the video was made in flash.

server,browser, flash etc

Server : a computer that provides shared resources to network users. But you can have to more kinds of servers.

A server cluster: a type of clustering in which two or more severs are joined together to service stateful application, such as a data base servers .

A server message block (smb): the protocol developed by Microsoft, Intel and ibm that defines a series of commands used to pass information between network computers.

Browser: is a software applicant that lets the user look at video, pictures and sound on an interface

E.g. internet explorer, safari, Firefox

Flash: is a web plug-in which enables the user to view animated website and video

Asp: is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages.

Php: is a scripting language designed by a dynamic web pages and it incorporates graphics and command line interfaces.

Css: is a style sheet and it is used in hmtl.

Dhtml: is a collection of technologies to produce animated and interactive websites

Shockwave: is a multimedia player crated by adobe and its to play animated site and games.

Plug in: is where you can add other programs to the internet e.g. shockwave and flash

folder structure

the bad website has next to nothing of white space its got a lot of black and gray space in ratio its 5% white 45% black and 50 gray space it has no rule of thrids as the website is a mess

The legal and ethical constraints of interactive media

The legal and ethical constraints of interactive media

· Computer misuse act
· Data protection act
· Obscene publication act
· Intellectual act
· Racism
· Disability

Legal Constraints
Checking intellectual property rights- Copyright- Design rights- Moral and paternal rights- Trademarks- Patents
Obtaining permissions
Libel
Race Relations Act
Obscene Publications Act
Computer Misuse Act
Data Protection Act
Accessibility
Contracts- Types of contract- Subcontracting- Outsourcing- Working to a brief- Penalties
Ethical Constraints
Authorship and ownership issues
Representation- Race- Gender- Age
Blasphemy
Appropriateness to audience


Computer misuse act: Is if you gain access to a computer with not the etherisation and steal data by hacking files and by planting viruses and using them for blackmail, or to copy a program e.g. Photoshop and putting it on a bit torrent site.
There are programs like limewire, Ares and Nero that are illegal to use and fall under this act if you get caught you can get for a fine or get 5 years as imprisonment.
As a designer it would be unacceptable to download programs of the internet, there are copyright laws on the programs and trademarks.

http://www.theteacher99.btinternet.co.uk/theteacher/gcse/newgcse/module8/task9.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Misuse_Act

Data protection act: the data protection act is where the UK public gives information (bank details, home details etc) have to protect that information and not let any information out to anyone. As a designer if I make a form room or a website to sell my artwork to the UK public I would have to take email address, bank details and home address. The computer misuse act and the data protection combine, if someone hacks or plants a virus to receive people’s bank details to clone bank cards for frond but it’s the person that protecting the data’s fault for not securing the data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act





Obscene publication act: is where you can’t show anything that is depraved and corrupt e.g. bestiality, necrophilia, rape or torture.
You can get a jail sentence from:
· 6 months downloading
· 3 years downloading, containing and sharing
· 2 years for the production
As a designer I can’t show a video production but if I produced something obscene I would lose my job, home and imprisonment but in some cultures some of this are acceptable so I would ask the client what was the boundary and where is it going to be placed.
You can paint most of the things that are depraved and corrupt as it is a expression of art but it’s not right to produce a video or a Photoshop image.
But there was a game that corrupted a persons mind (manhunt) he kill a 14 year old and it was taken to court and was banned and it was put under the obscene publication act and the creator was given 2 years imprisonment.

http://www.iwf.org.uk/police/page.22.38.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6767623.stm


Intellectual act: is basically the copyright law, once you have created a final piece u have copyright over it.
if u have a final piece you can put a copyright law on it will cost up to £200,copyright law's last up to 50 - 100 years after death but in the USA they last for 50 years only,you cant copy the original design and clam it as your own e.g. mikey mouse,you can trademark almost everything form colour, font and layout.

http://demonrazgriz666.blogspot.com/2009/01/laws.html

Racism: there are a lot of cultures you can’t create a website, game or film.
You can’t use Racial Discrimination in a employment under there
· colour
· nationality
· ethnic or national origins
The racial discrimination is not accepted in part time jobs terms and conditions, pay and benefits, status, training, promotion and transfer opportunities
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/DiscriminationAtWork/DG_10026667

Disability Discrimination Act: having a website for the blind people with no sound.Having a film with no audio without subtitles.Jobs involve computers and people the wrist problems have to have a custom mouse made.
The act is used everywhere like:
· application forms
· interview arrangements
· proficiency tests
· job offers
· terms of employment
· promotion, transfer or training opportunities
· work-related benefits such as access to recreation or refreshment facilities
· dismissal or redundancy

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/Employmentsupport/YourEmploymentRights/DG_4001071

· Obtaining permissions: is to get permission from the original copyright to allow access to use the product, design or artwork. You can’t take the original design and modify it and clam it as your own that would be in the act of the Intellectual act.
http://www.k-state.edu/academicpersonnel/intprop/permission.htm

the fight between the bbc and hevanworks who will win

between the 2 sites that i have looked at there are loads of major differences.

the bbc site is not trying to say everthing on the one page the writing is all the same font but the headlines are ether bold or a different colour and is layed out in a presnterable fasion.

the colours are the same through out the site, there are no big headlines with a coloured box round it, the images are clear and easy to understand, the main page to the news part of the bbc is 25% pictures so the user knows whats going on in what subject.

the sidebar on the left is not high lighted in different colours its been put in a gray with a blue font, as you click on the tabs in the sidebar underneath the main tab a secondery tab apears of another main topic in that area.

The font is readable on the bbc website as it does not change through out the site or colour, also it is easy spaced out and you can choose what you read.

So overall the bbc website is alot better and wins

poor interfaces 2

http://www.fabricland.co.uk/
the site is another example of bad interface
the backround is a very bright yellow and the sidebar on the left is in different colours and in load if different fonts and sizes.
the site is better than the hevanworks site but, the fabric land site has to many bright colour and to many animted objects, also the font is differnt sizes.

when you click on some certon link a really bad sound plays everytime you go on the page.
the font, colour and animated contines on all the pages.

poor interfaces

http://www.havenworks.com/

Havenworks is have to understand as the page is clutered to tell you everything at the same time. its not very user friendly as all the fonts and colour are different and counter each other, so it makes it harder to read.

This layout happened through out the site, there is a sidebar that goes down the left side of the screen and its hard to make out what some of the images are, also some of the images are pixalated.

the layout is like a news paper and put in coloms with a over use of images so the text is smaller and different fonts though out the site.

the havenworks website does not have a language changer so its only set in english but if you click on the little (us) button in the top right corner it changes the layout and its a little bit better than the english side.

it has a searh bar but the page is in different fonts and all hyperlinks her is example

examlpe 1:

example 2 (scorlled down and zoomed in):

laws

rascial - you cant have images of just one race.
you cant produce a game or film for the same culture

disabilitys - having a website for the blind people with no sound.
having a film with no audio without subtitles.
jobs invole computers and people the wrist problems have to have a costom mouse made.

interlectial property -copy right if u have created the product you need to have evidence of the original.

if u have a final piece you can put a copyright law on it will cost up to £200

copyright law's last up to 50 - 100 years after death but in the usa they last for 50 years only

you cant copy the original design and clam it as your own e.g. mikey mouse

you can trademark almost everything form colour, font and layout

obscene publication act - the act consitse of you cant produce a advert or moive with rape torture etc but i can be openond on as different people have different cultures,
you can get up to:
6 months for downloading
3 years containing and downloading
2 years is the filming.

computer missuse act - if you download software and downloading with out althotie
blackmail and hacking

team 1 reaserch law

http://www.iwf.org.uk/police/page.22.38.htm obscene publication