Development issues and After Effects.

Having to use after effects to develop an animated video showing how the web application will work, it proved difficult to navigate around and employ some of the effects which are available on the software. With so many layers to the design that need animating it became apparent that my time scale did not allow enough time for some effects and features to be included, though they are touched upon in different aspects, for example a drop down feature will appear once throughout the animation though in the wireframe stage of development it is clearly marked that a number of features on the page have working drop down screen, this is something for the developers reference.

Some parts of the interface were taken out last minute to allow for a better effect, for example the cover reel did have a small caption box under neath it with arrows to navigate left and right. It became clear that this could be simplified and taken out to allow more space for the images to move on the page, instead of arrows the navigation of these images would be control by either a laptop touch pad or a scroll wheel on a mouse, the information will show on page when the image is hovered over. The space where the definition box was before is now smaller as the images are enlarged, this space allows room between the reel and the listed details beneath.

With the idea of having thumbnail images enlarge on the interface to reveal a larger image or even snapshot of the web paged saved it became clear that the use of videos to show the effect even better. This would work by having a cursor hover over a thumbnail, a screen would enlarge from this while the rest of the imagery fades to 50% opacity (so it is still partially visible but the enlarged screen is the main focus) the enlarged screen contains a screen recording of the websites main page with it being scrolled down on the screen. This would allow users to view page content on the Google Bookmark interface, letting them view information while remaining on the same page.