FMP Intro/Lightbox

Website Intro/Lightbox

For my final major project I have created a intro/small video to just show the brief details of what it to be expected when the user goes through browsing my website. It will pop up as soon as the get on the website as a lightbox. Although creating this short animation typed work, I did not state that I was going to be doing this during my proposal.

Why I thought of completing a piece like this is because I noticed that on a variety of general websites there are small intro/video clips to show of what they are all about. This got me wondering whether I should do one similar to put on the first page on my website so that people can automatically be drawn to this and notice what it is I wish to show those viewing the website. My intro is a very short six second clip of which has animated words such as ‘Nostalgia FMP’ and ‘Josh Brinkley-Ripper’ come up in a box.

It is displayed on an image of Felixstowe pier to suggest to those that photography is very much most of what they are going to see throughout these pages and Nostalgia FMP title also suggests that they will be somewhat nostalgic and represent something or other. I created five of these intros using my smartphone of which I used an App called Legend where I was able to create this simple piece.

Once Legend was opened it asked me to Input the text I wanted displayed on the intro, therefore on the first line I wrote ‘Nostalgia FMP’ which is the project title and on the second line wrote my name so that by watching the short intro you can tell what it is and who it is made by. I then went on to choose an effect so I could make the title appear in a small yellow box of which I choose yellow as it is light and makes the image in the background feel brighter as well. Although it was very easy to complete, It did take a little while to get it uploaded and onto my website for that extra bit or production.

Each one of the intros I made which can be seen by following the link below all had different styles, however, the one I chose to use was the first one below as it is very eye-catching and shows of a okay image of Felixstowe in the background which gives it that more interesting effect both for the video and for the photography that will be displayed on my Nostalgia FMP website.

It was quite a smile process to complete this intro as the software used was easy to use. The main difficulty that I faced during producing this was that as I had done this on my mobile phone, I had to get it onto a laptop so I could upload it onto my website this way. All in all, I believe that the intro was done well and fits its purpose it is suppose to show.

See the intros/lightboxes on the slides

JOSH BRINKLEY-RIPPER