Virtual Open Day at the Faculty of Medicine
„Your Education. Our Mission."
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy are operating as part of the internationally recognized University of Szeged. The internationally approved high-quality education of the medical study in foreign language has been present in Szeged since 1985. During the semester 2015/2016 these faculties had more than 900 active students, from 60 different countries.
Our task was to prepare a material as an international promotion of the foreign language programs through which the future foreign students can familiarize themselves not only with the history and traditions of the University of Szeged, but also with the aforementioned faculties.
The plan was to create an overall material, which represents as much information about the qualifications, the facilities, and university life as possible, in order to convince students to choose the University of Szeged. By designing the website, we targeted those, who want to continue their higher education in Europe, more specifically in Hungary.
We paid special attention to the videos presenting the city itself and the one which represents the lives of foreign students. In these videos we involved some active students of the University: they are the ones who appear on the screen and speak in the voice covers. We believe that this is the most authentic way to introduce the University of Szeged, the training, the city and the cultural diversity that greets the freshmen in Szeged.
The technical specialty of the site is that we prepared a green screen video for each menu button, in which an active university student speaks about the most significant points of that part of the menu. We also paid attention to the appearance of our characters, which also contributes to originality: they are wearing T-shirt with university logos and a gown at the studio shooting.
When we prepared the graphic design, we paid special attention to the visual perception. Our aim was to organize the page’s content in graphic units to provide access to information about the program or the city. Owing to these graphic units, the result rather looks like a presentation, than a website. We ordered an opening image for each of the menu buttons, and, by scrolling down the page; full screen pictures, data, galleries, videos, and photos vary.
The website is built up of segments, which show the most important stages in a student’s life, from the beginning of the training, until graduation. We prepared the website using HTML5 videos, so that these work in any modern browsers. We created the site to be responsive, plus we added a retina-ready function as well. The website recognizes the platform on which the page is viewed, and adapts to it. We aimed at reducing the size of the downloadable data, so on the mobile version, we chose to hide the video itself, and we only included the narration.
