Note: if you are taking WMDD4835 without taking 4840 at the same time, your final assignment can be found here.
If you are taking current both 4835 and 4840 (or only 4840) the final assignment will have the following characteristics:
- it will be a single combined project
- it will be done in groups of two: one designer and one developer. You can form your groups.
The Details
Every year in August, the Langara Film Arts department puts on a Film Festival called Unlock the Vault, which showcases its graduating student projects.
This year’s festival is held on August 17 in the Vancouver International Film Festival Center Theatre.
The project, then, is to build a website using WordPress full-site-editing, in support of the festival.
There will be eleven or twelve films.
The front page of the site will present the poster for each of the films, each with a short description and links to a single page on each film.
In WordPress terms, the poster will be the feature image.
The short description, typically one or two sentences, is known in the film world as the logline. The longer description is known as the synopsis.
Note that the posters are all portrait orientation. This will have consequences for your designs.
The single page for each film will have the trailer, full details, and credits for producers, directors, actors, and writers.
You could build each film as a regular WordPress post or you could create Custom Post Types and use Custom Fields.
Additional Content
Additional Sections of the Site will present, likely as Custom Post Types, biographies of each of the 33 students in the class.
Each bio will have a headshot and a description of the students. Links to social media may appear as well.
The students will be organized into three categories: writers, actors, and directors.
You will have the weeks of July 23rd & 30th to work on the site. On Friday, August 04, for our final class, each team will present their project, hosted on the WMDD WordPress server.
On that day, the class (and the film arts students) will vote to determine the favorite.
The most popular site will become the festival site: a link from the Langara web site will redirect to our WMDD-Server-hosted winning project.
There will even be a small prize for the winning team.
Art Direction
Within the last day or two, the art direction for the festival has changed.
A festival poster had been created. However, the department decided not to use it.
This is not unusual in creative fields.
Word from the Film Arts Department now is that they are going for a Barbenheimer theme.
If you haven’t heard of Barbenheimer yet, it refers to an Internet meme derived from the fact that two blockbuster movies are being released on the same day this year:
That means a color palette of black, white, and lots of pink!
To help you contextualize the concept, here’s a few links:
- Wikipedia entry
- PetaPixel: AI-Generated Barbenheimer Trailer
- NYT: Barbie vs Oppenheimer
- NYT: Barbenheimer Quiz
- The Barbie Burger
- BarbieCore in Home Design
- A Six Decade Tour of Barbie’s Dreamhouses
- Barbenheimer Mashup Trailer
Links to Content & Plugin for Outputting Custom Fields
In Brightspace > Course Material > Final Project Details, there is a link to a page containing the following things:
- Dropbox link to the current content supplied by Film Arts
- Kadence Blocks Pro plugin (for output of Custom Fields)
- Kadence API Key
Because this page is public, I have put that content on Brightspace.