Sprinting in Mud III

The video has been made, the book is for sale, and the website is well on its way to being a final product.

The Video:

I deviated from the original storyboard because the theme was not very consistent with the rest of the website. The video has been a lot of fun but it certainty is not finished.

•  Instead of the tacked photos falling into place on the cork board, I would like to add a camera to the mix and have it weave in and out of the tacked photos placed in three dimensional space.
• I would also like to re-record the audio. I have a native Spanish speaking friend who has agreed to doing the narrative and I think that it will sound much better.
• I need to resize the video so that the graphics fill the entire picture and the background can not be seen.

The Book:

The book is for sale on shopmybook.com. I have done a lot of research on book publishing these past few months and for the purpose of this book I am satisfied with shopmybook.com. The process was pretty painless and it was free! I remember reading that I would be able to get an ISBN number for the book but when I went through the publication process I did not see the option. I might re-edit and re-publish the content but as for now I am okay without having an ISBN number. 

The Website:

In the past week I was able to put the video on the website and work on a few graphics. The tack in the header and the tack and background on a few of the photographs have been added. 

Formatting on the website has been a bit of a struggle. I researched, tried to code, and reformat the size of the video on the main page but its still obnoxiously large. The invisible tables and their formatting has been difficult too. Aside from adding space and resizing images I am not sure how to format the images or text properly. 

Other News:

The Department of Communication Faculty reviewed my capstone project on Monday. I was very nervous. It felt more like a sporadic overview than a formal presentation but they were very gracious. I think I could have spent hours listening to their suggestions but we only had 10 minutes. Their review was beneficial, nontheless. One professor found an error in the content and another professor recommended getting the the website licensed. They also suggested doing an animated self-video as apposed to filming one for the comments/questions page. I corrected the error and got the license, but I am still not sure about animating the self-video:

To Do: 

Must. Finish. Strong.

• Make sure all the content has been correctly typed onto the website
• Add the online quizzes to all of the chapters
• Re-format chapter pages so that the quizzes and downloadable material is on the side.
• Add backgrounds to all of the photos
• Make a Facebook and Twitter page and link them to the site.
• Format the front page of the website (the video size)
• Re-order the photographs on the chapter page so they complement each chapter
• Change the color behind the tack in the header to an off-white
• Add more links and make sure all of the acknowledgements are correct.
• Add a self-video 
• Re-write/code the comments/questions page so that is in in Spanish.
• Add audio to the English words
• Re-edit the video

It is hard to believe there are only 2 full weeks left until our final presentations!