The First Review of the Digital Archive
John produced the initial framework and Toby and Ali first got to see it in early summer. Here are a few of the areas they commented on and suggested changes - the website is underway.
1. Welcome to the Living Archive (text here could also be a series of messages that fade in).
2. Header video - Short video loop: 20-30 seconds long, drawing from different eras of NFS. Audio can take music from one of the NFS shows.
3. Example of background video: https://www.toggl.com/
4. Explore - The explore button either links the user to the timeline or else scrolls the page down to featured content as shown below, about the archive, memories, people, gallery
5. Timeline Content- The timeline will be the main presentation for the site - the first place most people go. As a constructed story it wouldn't include every picture / photo / piece of information that's published on the site, but it would be a way of exploring the content and would link through to more detailed information.
Like the rest of the website, it'll be possible for NFS to add to and edit the timeline, but we're also happy to give feedback and ideas on how the timeline can come together as a user experience.
6. Structure - One recommendation we'd make here is to divide the thirty years of NFS into a series of chapters - e.g. Balls up to Every Which Way But Up, 1983 - 1989. A few reasons for this:
If there's a video introducing every year then 30+ could feel a bit heavy. It's not a problem technically to have so many videos, but for the user it could be overwhelming.
If there's a video introducing every year then 30+ could feel a bit heavy. It's not a problem technically to have so many videos, but for the user it could be overwhelming.
Dividing into chapters reinforces the feeling that the timeline is telling a story about the development of NFS - it's not just a catalogue of everything that happened but a record of how the company evolved through different phases.
The final chapter could be 2006 - present, then you can continue to add new things to the timeline. (You could keep adding if you were dividing it year by year, but it would look odd if 2016 and 2017 didn't also have video introductions.
Also propose separating timeline items into categories that can be tagged with icons - to give the timeline itself some visual polish, and to help the user scan the page easily.
7. Shows - The show pages will collect all relevant media tagged with that production, and head it with a large image and a simple show description.8. We also thought that - to give a sense of the company growing over time - it could be nice to visualise some statistics.
We think it could also be a useful addition to have some stats attached to shows - things like Date of premiere, Number of performances, number of cast members, number of audience, countries visited, budget.
If you liked there could be some offbeat stats about e.g. metres of costume material but of course it depends on what you have available or what you feel able to collect.
The statistics are fun little facts themselves, but they can also act as quick indicators of NFS's growth: scrolling down the list of NFS shows the user can see the growth in cast size, number of performances, etc
We can expand this page to include other types of information you want t o store / collect, but it's good to get this functionality in at the beginning of the process. For instance, if you wanted to collect and archive all the tour dates for a production - everywhere it went and played - then we can work that in.
9. Artists - Artists pages have a headshot and some basic biographical information, and then collect all the relevant, tagged content. We've kept it simple here, but it's possible to have more fields for biographical information if you want to have something more like a fact sheet for all the different artists.
Currently we have all the artists lumped together, but we could for instance rename this section Team or Family and make it possible for the user to sort people by role (Performer, Production Staff, etc)
We thought that it would be best to collect only the date joined ( rather than have a range like 1989 - 1993) because we felt it might be complicated in some cases (i.e. with people working for the company off and on).
10. Media Gallery - Explore the living archive by media type
VIDEO AUDIO PHOTO TEXT
The media gallery is a simple collection of the video and audio material on the website.
11. Navigation
For the navigation menu we propose a left sliding panel, using an effect similar to the bigSlide.js http://ascott1.github.io/bigSlide.js/The navigation would be HOME
12. Content Types and FieldsBelow is a table listing the different content types and the fields that will attach to these. Fields are essentially just boxes for different categories of information. So for instance if you upload an audio file you'll want to store information about who the speaker is, what subjects they're covering, etcetera.
Performance, Header image, name + subtitle, Show music, Description, Tags - artist, memories (suggested possible statistics : date of premiere number of performances number of cast members number of audience countries visited budget), Year joined, biography, role, discipline, headshot, nationality, tags - show, memories, description, speaker, Subject tag - e.g. 'touring story' Tags - show, artist, Description, Credit, Tags - show, artist date taken (optional), URL, source, author, date, tags - show, artist Pullquote (optional), Artist, audio / video media, image, external resource
The statistics are fun little facts themselves, but they can also act as quick indicators of NFS's growth: scrolling down the list of NFS shows the user can see the growth in cast size, number of performances, etc
We can expand this page to include other types of information you want t o store / collect, but it's good to get this functionality in at the beginning of the process. For instance, if you wanted to collect and archive all the tour dates for a production - everywhere it went and played - then we can work that in.
9. Artists - Artists pages have a headshot and some basic biographical information, and then collect all the relevant, tagged content. We've kept it simple here, but it's possible to have more fields for biographical information if you want to have something more like a fact sheet for all the different artists.
Currently we have all the artists lumped together, but we could for instance rename this section Team or Family and make it possible for the user to sort people by role (Performer, Production Staff, etc)
We thought that it would be best to collect only the date joined ( rather than have a range like 1989 - 1993) because we felt it might be complicated in some cases (i.e. with people working for the company off and on).
10. Media Gallery - Explore the living archive by media type
VIDEO AUDIO PHOTO TEXT
The media gallery is a simple collection of the video and audio material on the website.
11. Navigation
For the navigation menu we propose a left sliding panel, using an effect similar to the bigSlide.js http://ascott1.github.io/bigSlide.js/The navigation would be HOME
12. Content Types and FieldsBelow is a table listing the different content types and the fields that will attach to these. Fields are essentially just boxes for different categories of information. So for instance if you upload an audio file you'll want to store information about who the speaker is, what subjects they're covering, etcetera.
Performance, Header image, name + subtitle, Show music, Description, Tags - artist, memories (suggested possible statistics : date of premiere number of performances number of cast members number of audience countries visited budget), Year joined, biography, role, discipline, headshot, nationality, tags - show, memories, description, speaker, Subject tag - e.g. 'touring story' Tags - show, artist, Description, Credit, Tags - show, artist date taken (optional), URL, source, author, date, tags - show, artist Pullquote (optional), Artist, audio / video media, image, external resource
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