Photographers

REFLECTION

DESIGN OF A WEBSITE FOR PHOTO AGENCY

Supervised by: Prof. Paolo Paolini

Developed by: Anna Trofimova

ID: 796799

26 November 2012

Content

INTRODUCTION.. 3

1. REQUIREMENTS.. 6

2. CONCEPTUAL DESIGN.. 7

2.1 Outline. 7

2.2 Conceptual design schema. 8

Part I

INTRODUCTION

Foreword

Photo has been widely used in law, media, history, design, and life as a man. Each person has a home photo album, which tells the audience without words the story of your life, showing what you were young, what events are happening in your biography.

Also picture is used in business. Restaurants want colorful pictures on the menu; the editors want to see in their magazines pictures of stars.

In today's world of large companies, magazines, and ordinary people are often faced with the challenge of finding professional photographers who can make beautiful photos. For comparison work and finding the needed photographer, customers spent a lot of time to spend looking through personal websites.

Idea

The main idea is to develop a site for a photo agency, which connect photographers working with individual projects (business to client), and with the projects of the companies (business to business).

Client

The agency, whose job finding photographers to customers and work for photographers.

Users

Users of the site can be divided into several groups:

v Individual customers.

v Companies (for coverage of events)

v Magazines and journals

v Photographers

Individual customers

These can be people of any age, who visit the site from time to time to order photo services on a certain day. They order photography services for events such as birthday, wedding or engagement, love story or creating a portfolio.

Companies

There are two types of companies:

- Companies of show and culture area (nightclubs, theaters, festivals, cinemas, etc.) are interested in photo services. They order the photographers who take pictures of the event guests and participants.

- Manufacturing companies (manufacturers of clothing, food, cosmetics, etc.) which want to take photos in order to promote their product.

Magazines and journals

We can find many photos in magazines and newspapers. This site can offer a team of photographers who take photos for a magazine cover or for a particular article. This service is interesting for publishers of magazines, in which required photographs of famous people or items photos (fashion, bibliographic journals).

Photographers

Photographers who have the skills that the photos in different areas can get a job on this site.

Targets

· Photographers

Photographers take part in our project in order to show their works to the world, gain popularity and received an orders.

· Magazines and companies

Magazines and companies visit our site to see works with different categories and find desired photographers who will work in their projects

· Individual customers

Individual customers are peoples who want to find a photographer to work at once or twice. They want to see the works of photographers to understand what photos they want.

REQUIREMENTS ANLYSIS AND GOALS

Goals

Business Goals

The most important goal for every company nowadays is to make more money. The main way to make money is to attract customers to photographers; the most important thing is to focus the attention on the activities of the agency that increase the profits.

v Task Force: Companies

Motivation: Very important to attract more companies that need to coverage for their activities and want to subscribe long-term contracts. For example, night clubs which want to place party photos in the internet and need in photographers every week.

v Task Force: Magazines and journals.

Motivation: The goal is to attract editors who are interested in contracts with the agency to provide photographic services. On this site, they can view the work and choose your favorite photographer. For example, to work on the clothing catalog

v Task Force: Individual customers.

Motivation: Individual projects bring less money, but numbers of them are much more than big projects. People need in photos of important events in their lives: wedding, birthday, etc.

v Task Force: Photographers.

Motivation: The goal is to attract photographers who can post their work on the site. The more work is in place, the more choices for consumers.

Communication goals

We live in a world in which the basic law, "time - money." For this reason, the main goal for each of the Task Forces is time saving.

v Task Force: Companies

Motivation: Companies can save time as to find a group of photographers they do not need to go to the personal sites of each photographers, they can browse their work on the site of photo agency and choose the needed people to them.

v Task Force: Magazines and journals.

Motivation: Magazines often need in people who specialize only in gloss shooting. You can spend a lot of time browsing the site and looking for the essentials. Site sections of the agency simplify the job.

v Task Force: Individual customers.

Motivation: On site photo agency private customers can compare the work of photographers and choose what they like. This saves time when searching.

v Task Force: Photographers.

Motivation: By becoming a user of this site, photographers can easily find a job as a personal project and in the group.

Requirements

Users requirements

Main requirement for users is the ease of use and the availability of all necessary site. For all users is mandatory presence of contact agencies and information about it.

v Task Force: Companies

Requirements:

a) information about the agency

b) contacts details for agencies

c) opportunity to view works by category

d) viewing photographer dates

e) information on the projects the agency created before

v Task Force: Magazines and journals.

Requirements:

a) information about the agency

b) contacts of photo agency

c) ability to view data about the photographers

d) view works by category

e) opportunity to view articles about agency

v Task Force: Individual customers.

Requirements:

a) information about the agency

b) contacts details for agencies

c) view Awards of agency and photographers

d) ability to view data about the photographers

e) view works by category

f) opportunity to view articles about agency

v Task Force: Photographers.

Requirements:

a) information about the agency

b) contacts details for agencies

c) view Awards of agency

d) opportunity to view articles about agency

e) list of vacancies and candidate questionnaire

Content requirements

Information:

v Photographers: information about photographers (short description of his/her personal life, areas of work, working equipment, skills, examples of photo for each service line)

v Projects: information about projects of the photo agency (name, date, short description, names of photographers who created this project, 3-4photos, 1 video)

v Sections: information about photo sections (short descriptions, photos with subscribe, list of photographers, price list)

v Agency: information about the photo agency (history, contacts, map)

v Awards: information about photographers’ awards (full name, section, name of photographer, short description) or agency’s awards

v Articles: articles about awards of the photographers and the photo agency (name of article, content, images, list of photographers’ names or list of awards)

v Vacancies: information about the vacancies of the photo agency (description of work areas)

Service:

Application form for the employment photographer, in which they will upload their works, write data indicate and area of working.

Technology requirements

Tools:

v HTML

v CSS

v Java Script

Browsers:

To use the site, you need to use these browsers or higher

v Internet Explorer 9.0 +

v Mozilla Firefox 6.0 +

v Google Chrome 13.0 +

v Safari 5.1 +

v Opera 11.64 +

Multimedia:

v Photogallery

v Videos

Mobile technology:

Smart phones: All type of users will be able to view the web-site with smart-phones, with limited amount of content and without application form.

Part II

1. CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR WEB

2.1 Outline

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