Simulated Client Project Complete!

For the first time on the course I have finished 2 days early! lol. Here is my website which is currently being hosted on my portfolio website. I am glad this time round that my website works in Firefox and Internet Explorer!.

www.nickcoxmedia.co.uk/pirate_website

My Piracy website is basically a website which informs a young audience about the basics of Piracy. My original idea was to animate and make all of the animals and island interactive. One of the features i managed to do was to create a 'pirate spyglass' which is activated when you scroll over the pirate ship.

Website Mockup

My website mockup so far for my homepage.

Wireframes

Heres a few wireframes for my 'Pirate' website.

Simulated client project - websites

After a looking to piracy I have found a few websites which inform piracy in different ways.

Stop Piracy Now

http://stoppiracynow.org/

This site was founded by a family-owned business in the travel industry that has worked hard, over many years, to produce quality travel information for consumers.

One day we had the distinct displeasure to discover that thousands upon (tens of) thousands of pages of there hard work were being stolen online, with the express purpose of pulling there customers away. The infringes were essentially using there own published work against them. They decided to fight back.

This website is, in essence, there story.

Stop Piracy Blog

http://jenjen.typepad.com/stoppiracy/

This website is basically a blog for digital designers who need help fighting piracy. Also this website informs people who dont have an understanding of piracy and inform things such as what piracy is and how to avoid taking part in it.

Simulated client project - research

Before I can begin to research piracy I first need to understand what piracy is?

What is Copyright?

Copyright infringement is the unauthorized or prohibited use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works.

History

The statute of Anne was the first ever statute to be copyrighted dating back to 1709, and entered into force on 10 April 1709. It is generally considered to be the first fully-fledged copyright statute.

Statute of Anne 1709

Piracy

Piracy refers to acts intentionally committed for financial gain, though more recently copyright owners have described online copyright infringement, particularly in relation to peer-to-peer file sharing networks, as piracy.

Theft

Copyright owners frequently refer to copyright infringement as "theft". In law copyright infringement does not refer to actual theft, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner without authorisation.

Countries

Sharing copied music is legal in some countries, such as Canada and The Netherlands (downloading only), provided that the songs are not sold.

First Project

So we have received our first project of the year! which is to 'Produce a short multimedia piece that informs about or illustrates Digital Piracy' (Which we have 3 weeks to produce).

My first thoughts was to challenge myself by creating an application which would inform about Digital Piracy but after Danny's lecture we were told 'not to create a piece which would not run off a CD'. GREAT! that limits me to a standard website! with no coding.

I am going to research into this and then come back with some ideas.