Website design.

For my homepage I envision an abandoned house as I feel this adds character to the design and creates an eerie mood. Within my narratives there is a death in a different room of the house therefore it makes sense to have an image of a house or a hallway where the viewer can interact with the site and click on which narrative they want to view by clicking on a door or window that will take them to the scene of the suicide. The images below create the exact mood that I am looking for, I feel as though a house is more suitable for my design particularly as it has five rooms to choose from of which is how many narratives I have chosen to re-create, however I feel it would be a good idea to have images of the rooms possibly in the background. The images will be on a slideshow with a suicide short story or note above them

Idea One.

I have decided to choose image 6 as I feel it's more fitting considering there's five narratives, I like the style of the house and whole setting it looks as though the spectator is peeking through the branches, the titles allow the user to click on whichever narrative they want to pick, once they have clicked the idea is that the link will take them to the related image series.

Idea Two.

I like the idea of being able to see into the house simply to when you open a dolls house, as if the front was to be removed.

I have chosen my second idea as I feel as though it makes my project more personal to the viewer, it's more intriguing and it will entice the spectator in to want to explore the story behind each room. I will create the house in photoshop and will make the rooms interactive.

Final Design.

Overall I am not overly pleased with my final design as there was so much more I wanted to do but due to my website design skills and time I was limited. I like how the site is messy as it conveys the project well. I felt that I used my resources well as I attended regular tutorials with John to ensure my website was to the best quality it could of been with the skills that I have. If I had more time to develop my website I would of chosen to create it in a different application as I felt as though Wix limited my skills.

I had considered that my images were of a rather graphic nature as it includes nudity, and a sensitive subject therefore I thought it was vital to include an age banner and to include links to The Wellcome Trust and The Samaritans to reiterate the point that this project is not glamourising suicide.