TITLE
Drama Ahjumma
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Drama Ahjumma serves you the latest information of the Korean drama that you can get while being simple and user-friendly. What makes us different than other websites is that we are fun, enable you to express your feeling about your favourite drama with the community around the world.
2.0 PROBLEM BACKGROUND
2.1 There is no other websites that has all the necessity relating to K-drama in one single website.
2.2 Some websites are not available for some region (countries).
2.3 There are websites that are big for smart phone users which make it not user-friendly
3.0 MISSION AND OBJECTIVE
3.1 Mission
Our mission is to make a website that contributes back to the fandom of Korean Dramas and making our website as simple and interactive for our target crowd. Other than making their life easier and have fun at our website.
3.2 Objective
Our objective is as follows:
· To be a one stop station for everything Korean dramas.
· Focus on Korean dramas and open for everyone from all over the world.
· Provide the best service and site for user to come and unleash their interest of the Korean dramas.
4.0 SCOPE
4.1 User
· As young as twelve years old until early fifty years old regardless of their gender.
· Applicable for those who communicate in English.
· Module : Mixed Structure
4.2 Module
4.3 Function
5.0 METHODOLOGY
5.1 Analysis
As reference, we took three major websites that are well known among the Korean drama fandom that is Viki, Dramabeans and MyAsianTv. We chose these three because almost all of it has features that we wanted to enhance in our website that is simple design, easy to navigate and user friendly. All three of the websites are using mixed structure module. There are several elements that we prefer and downfalls that we would like to differ from them which are as follows.
From Viki, in terms of content, we love how they provide their dramas in High Definition (HD) and wide range of drama collection from all over the world. Also they provided subtitle that covers multiple languages not only English. The way they present their content is interesting as well as they put thumbnail of the dramas and arrange it in a box manner for easy navigation and grouped the dramas according to their country. With the need to sign up and purchase for further access, it is the minor part of the website that we do not prefer for our design. However, it is slightly more fancy than other website because of their design and collection and they also have mobile application that allow users to watch through their phones and receive instant notification of their updates. Being big makes it time consuming to watch the drama without buffering especially from a limited internet data.
(Top up: Navigation menu can be found with the grouping of dramas according to each countries.)
From Dramabeans, it is our sample website for article and forum section. Choice of colour that is suitable for reading, recap section that covers on-going and also completed dramas and discussion section within the article itself inspire us to make our article section comfortable for user. With article of drama recaps updated daily, user is able to watch the drama all over again without the need to actually watch it again because you can just read it as images or stills from the drama is added in each part of the article to help the user to really see what was in the drama. Writer of the article added their own opinion after the recap and this is to raise the user’s understanding of the whole drama and triggered the comment section to be a forum as users discusses their own view of it. We love the format as it is direct, simple and user friendly. Additional content that we favour in the website is a “Linky” which is a list of link to other pages that can help create support from other established website and they provided list of what are the dramas that they are currently working on and already updated.
(Recap section)
(List of schedule for updates on drama recaps)
Last but not least, from MyAsianTV, their website is similar to Viki in terms of the service they gave. However they do it differently by presenting their collection of Korean dramas and movies in a list manner and user need to look for the title of the drama that they wanted to watch. List of the latest dramas are on the index page and user can always use the search box to find their dramas more swiftly. Other than that, they also have comment section at the bottom of the video that allows user to interact and discuss their opinion or relating theory of the episode. The main element that we wanted to apply in our website is the speed of the video to load without buffering for a long time while being HD and latest episode is uploaded almost a day after it was aired with complete English subtitles.
(List of latest drama for easy navigtion)
With our website, we want to incorporate the swiftness in terms of easy to load page, user friendly and best service for our user. We will be focusing on k-dramas and movie only and all the article and forum section will cover the same topic. Article will have recaps and related news while forum will give platforms for user to fully immerse in discussing among other user. We insert some interactive and fun elements through polls to attract user’s attention. With the video section, we will put up HD videos and a way of downloading the video as well as nowadays, user prefer to directly download it for unlimited view time rather than watching it again online. Small ideas such as “Linky”, comment and search section and small information on what are the latest and on-going updates and dramas are we updating on certain days are elements that we believe will make our website more helpful for user.
5.2 Design
5.2.1 Flow: Reference A
5.3 Implementation
5.3.1 Gantt chart: Reference C
6.0 Conclusion
With k-dramas fans in mind, we aim to be the main web page for the fans to come to and be able to have access to all things k-dramas in the most practical and interactive way. We take reference of websites such as DramaViki, Dramabeans and MyAsianTv that all has simple, user-friendly website design and content that covers a lot of information for k-dramas fans. We differ from other website by focusing on one field which is Korean dramas and provide section for user such as drama, articles and forum section. We believe that our website will be beneficial for the fan in being a hub for all things k-dramas.
