Coursework: website design

Once we have finished our Statement of Intent and taken our photographs, we need to start constructing our website.

This is a fantastic, creative part of the course and best of all you are able to work on this from any computer using the website building site wix.com. 

For this first lesson in website building we just want to get started on wix.com and choose a template to use for our low-budget independent horror film website.

Create your website using Wix

We're going to use wix.com to create our websites. This is a simple, user-friendly and free site that AQA is happy for us to use and will really help us to create our website. Here's a tutorial explaining the basics in designing a website on wix.com:

Remember, to test out wix.com, we created an example film website using some A Level Media pictures from a different project. This is what we're trying to produce!

Creating a film website on wix.com

To help create your low-budget independent horror film website, we recommend using a film-based template available on wix.com. You can then add your images, film title and other homepage conventions that you researched as part of your first coursework task.

Here's a video walkthrough for how to sign up to wix.com and get your template up and running:

Coursework: Creating a website

This week, we don't have a blog task - we just need to get straight into building our website! Work through the following tasks:

1) Sign up to wix.com using your Greenford email address. Remember: don't pay anything! We can create the website we need for GCSE coursework for free.

2) Select 'Create a new website' and search for a film template for your site.

3) Start to design your site using text and images based on your horror film title and photography.

Good luck!