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Welcome to my documentary website! Throughout the documentary unit at Freestyle Academy, I researched the misconceptions of badminton and how they have affected the community. In English I learned about the inner-workings of a good research paper and then used this knowledge to help write an informative paper called Smashing the Misconceptions. I then used the information in my research paper to create this documentary website and a book. The book contains all the information from the essay and photos taken during the documentary process. The layout of the book was designed with Adobe InDesign and the photos were edited with Adobe Photoshop.

Even though the documentary process proved to be difficult at times with gathering audio and photos, I believe that the final result paid off. I especially enjoyed putting all of my work together to create the documentary book, because it was a physical project that I could show friends and family. In addition I enjoyed getting to know my badminton coaches better, and learning about what got them interested in playing and teaching the sport.

During the creation of this website, I amied for a simple but effective layout by ustilzing contrast and allignment. I achieved contrast by the combination of a grayscale backgrounda dn bright blue buttons. I also strengthened the look of this site by adding subtle gradients and textures.

Start by viewing the research paper to get a better understanding about the focus of this doucmentary project.