Renew Web Blog and Proposal

Date: 24/11/2006
Time: 16.00
Venue: Ehsan's Home.

Today, Jaswant and Jerry went to Ehsan's home to prepare our new proposal and also to do some final discussion. We realize that our previous web blog Hubpages.com is not user friendly and occasionally the server traffic is slow. It also doesn’t support the function of adding photos inside the document. Therefore we decided to move over to a new web blog host that is blogspot. We rewrite our blogs and update it to the latest one and here is our proposal:

Title:

A Sip from Heaven

Background:

Tea is a very interesting and unique type of beverage that had existed since the ancient days in China. Many people had been practicing drinking tea as part of their lifestyle and also culture especially in the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans society. In this modern era where technologies are growing rapidly, this culture is only being practiced by the older generation and it's almost forgotten among the younger generation. Nowadays, people are suffering under stress and fatigue resort to the usage of drugs, painkillers, and alcohol which are hazardous to the mind, body and soul. Drinking tea can also be an alternate way to relief one from those symptoms mentioned above. We had chosen this topic because we want to educate and to promote the modern people about the benefits of drinking tea and also preventing this beautiful culture from being lost forever.

Target Audience:
Average 20-50years old and above.

Characteristic:

Have no knowledge about tea, curious about tea, like Chinese culture.

Scope for the content:
i) History
- introduction
- history
- origin
- how it reach Malaysia
- Explain about the relationship between tea and culture and lifestyle in Malaysia
- Where can we get tea, where is it planted?

ii) Benefit for Health
- Types of Tea
i. Red
ii. Black
iii. Yellow
iv. White
v. Green

- Legend, Benefit and Types.

iii) Rules
- Rules of drinking tea
- Procedure to make a tea
- Tea set (Usage, type of tea set.)

iv) Interview
- An interview with a tea master.

v) Interactive Question
- To improve the audience's knowledge about tea.

vi) About us
- Regarding the authors


Objective

- We will create a very interesting and unique introduction for the multimedia CD.
- We want to improve the knowledge of the audience in an interesting way.
- We will include various Chinese painting images that are related to tea.
- We want to make sure that our user audience feels comfortable when exploring the multimedia CD.

Strategy Approach:

- We will have an introduction animation.
- We will create an interactive question for the audience to explore.
- We will do research about the design and symbols that are related to tea so that we can use it as part of the GUI.
- We will create a user friendly graphic user interface (GUI) that is suitable for all ages.

Project Genre/Category:

- Education & Information Multimedia CD.

Budget


Team members’ roles

· Since this work is a group work and we want to produce an excellent product, so we decided to do all the pages together. Each member will be bringing some sketches of each page and then we combined them into one. All of us will also be present at the same time in one place to create the multimedia CD page by page.
· If we were to separate the work individually, some members are able to finish the work on time while maybe the others were not able to do it, therefore it will bring negative effect by slowing down our progress.

· This group work will have some advantages such as:

o Every member will be satisfied with the outcome.
o We can share our experience together
o We can make sure everyone does their part equally
o The project work will be synchronize in terms of the GUI and design
o If there's a mistake, every member will be responsible for that page and not only a particular person.
o In this group work we have 3 minds instead of 1; therefore the product outcome will be better.
o We work as a team at the same time instead of individuality.
o We can prepare ourselves for the future in order to work as a team and believe in a concept "no man is an island"
o It’s a good opportunity to strengthen our bonds in working together in the future.
o We can learn together from our mistakes and improve ourselves together thus balancing the skill level individually.

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