Week 3 - 01/02/11

This week, we carried on collecting our ideas for the project together as we still seem a little vague on what we want the project to actually consist of. During this process we came up with a number of ideas for the website, keeping the initial idea of basing it on Bristol but changing both the content and design of our project. We thought that...

• For the home page, instead of creating a cartoon drawing that we could animate, we thought we could instead create a collage using hundreds of pictures to both construct the areas and venues we want to use in our project but also link these areas together with streets and roads, to create a mini map of Bristol.
• The areas and venues we want to focus on will be turned into links and carry you to another page. Here it will go in depth about the history of the place, the cultural significance it has to Bristol and the types of music/art it showcases. We will do this by displaying text, pictures, music and videos to inform the viewer not only what its like to go there but also what it feels like to be there.
• Each page needs to represent its side of Bristol in every way so for each page the font could be different depending on the place itself, for example information about stokes croft could be constructed out of graffiti. 
• The music for the site I will compose myself. I want to create short 30 second loops for each area of Bristol we are representing and relate to that. Each could play either when you scroll over that area on the home page or on the links from it.

These are just a few ideas on how we are moving our project forward, now that we have some stronger ground work, we can start putting these ideas into action, to see what its going to look like and what other ideas this causes us to think about.