Week 11 - 29/03/11

We are getting close to the deadline now and with only one week left to complete our project, I feel that we will finish it to a high standard. After having some problems with Flash and not being able to make some of the buttons to work, we figured out what was going wrong and were able to copy this code over to the rest of the venues. Videos montages have been created for Motion, Thekla and Basement 45, and videos have been made for The Croft and The Royal Academy. These have all been embedded in Flash and all display a recent event that happened in March from all varieties of tastes.

I created the video for a night that happened in Basement 45, but the focus of the review is for the  promoter of the night Crazy Legs. This promotion team put on nights and book DJs which play and produce forward thinking underground bass music, which is genres such as Future Garage, 2-Step, Intelligent Dubstep and Future Bass. The sound hasn't really got a concrete name yet and can be called many things but its growing fast in popularity and some big nights and names are already coming out of it. I want this website to be ahead of the game and show people off the map sort of club nights, pushing this style of night is exactly what the website is about.

Now that we have created the bubbles which display information when you roll over certain places, we really have kept the information to a minimum and are relying solely on visual aspects to allow the user there own opinion.

Instead of a text based experience aimed at finding and connecting bits of information the goals of the immersed user will include the visual and sensory pleasures of spatial exploration.

  Lister et al (2003)

Week 10 - 22/03/11

Today I learnt how to create pop ups and embedding video in Flash. I realised that we don't need to do much work in Dreamweaver for the site, most can be done in Flash and then we just put it into Dreamweaver to turn it into a website. Now on our home page, when you scroll over the Polaroids which are active a 'think' bubble pops up which displays all the relative information needed. Then when you click on the picture, the pictures will stop bouncing, the map will darken and either a video, photo montage or pictures & information will appear about that specific spot the user clicked on.

 I have completed this for Motion, and most of the bubbles have been added. Once all the videos are finished we can piece it all together and it should start to look pretty good. We are not running into many troubles at the moment and the project should definitely be finished soon.

Week 9 - 15/03/11

This week I've been creating all the visual content for the 'Shake, Wrap and Roll' sandwich cafe and for the night Run at Motion. For 'Shake, Wrap and Roll' I have got copies of the menu to display on the site and also brought a wrap which I took photos of to show the viewer the sort of wraps the place makes. For Motion, I went to Run on the 12th of March and took lots of pictures and combining these with some pictures I found, I have created a photo montage of the night, similar to the one created for Thekla. I also composed my own music for the video, the first song is my own production and then follows onto Hypno by Kutz.

Here is a rough edit of the video:

Week 8 - 08/03/11

This week we have been taking on board what our teachers have been saying and are giving our project a slight twist while still focusing on the same idea. Now the website is going to be based on 'what you have missed' last week from nights out to art exhibitions and top picks of the week from sandwich cafes to bars. The reason behind this is to give the website a different edge from your average tour guide or review site and while relying on visual aspects the viewer can see what they missed out on, if it was there sort of thing and so they can make sure the don't miss it again!

     Furthermore, to keep with this idea of the past, the whole presentation of the site has to include this, from the look to the name. So the maps colours have been changed to an almost ghostly shade to make it feel back in time, the photos will also be made more transparent to fit with this theme. We are also going to include in the collage of pictures some photos of Bristol from the past to play on this idea further.

      A name still needs to be thought up for the site and we really need to get moving on getting the site into production. Though the home page is nearly finished and we almost have all the content we need so next week we can start constructing our site.