Monday, February 5, 2007

Jessie - Project Outline

PROJECT OUTLINE

As a photography major, I have a collection of thousands of images and which are unorganized in binders and boxes. For my final project I would like to create a digital portfolio in order to present my strongest work to others. Using Flash I will create an interactive website that is highly stylized in a layout made to resemble a scrapbook, with a similar experience to a scrapbook for the user. It will have the illusion of a more tactile "real life" object, but of course be completely digitized. I would like it so that it doesn't even necessarily have to be published on the web but can be opened by a CD which I can make copies of to share.

WEEK 5 - 6 Research effectively executed scrapbook-style pieces by other artists
WEEK 7-9 Scan negatives and photographs, curate which photos mesh the best as a whole body of work
WEEK 10-12 Build layout
WEEK 13 Present

1 comment:

Judith Doyle said...

Your Outline is rather minimal, however I like the example you showed in class of a bulletin board type interface design. The example made your idea much clearer. While the level of complexity in that example is too great I think to complete in the limited time left in the semester, the basic concept is workable. As I understand it, you would like to create an intuitive scrapbook-like interface that will be fun to explore and will highlight elements of your personality, your way of seeing and organizing, as well as the photographs you've taken. I think now there are two main tasks ahead - preparing the images, as you outline in your workplan, but also sketching and thinking through what kind of appearance and interactivity your interface will have. What leads to what? Try to be as specific as possible in your ideas, so that we can work with Craig to build the interactivity.

I look forward to seeing the editorial material including photos and a site map / design.