DESCRIPTION:
This project aims
to bring knowledge of the events of 1915
to the general public through an interactive
journey that is different from the currently
available sources of information that are
more text-based and statistics-based. Artinian
Productions wanted to bring the 20 interviews
that were shot in the past 4 years to the
web as an interactive documentary.
Bandwidth issues were
considered when the target audience and
various worldwide locations where this site
might used in academic settings were evaluated.
The video part of these interviews was put
aside in order to bring forward the "voices",
the accounts of the events. Sound compression
algorithms and compression options were
carefully selected to keep every detail
in the voices of these survivors while keeping
a safe download time so that the experience
did not suffer for slower connection visitors.
A complex back-end sound
mixer was programmed so that while sound
was loading, the general theme would play,
then automatically crossfade to the regional
music while the audio interview loads, then
slowly fade down to bring the voice commentary
in. All this is done automatically through
preloaders and such, while still giving
the user total control over each event through
the \"Sound\" pane. Careful transitions
were created to always keep the atmosphere
and experience at the same level, bringing
people away from their online experience
and into a personnal experience. Extensive
ActionScripting brought our developers to
believe that this programming language has
been created for such complex online applications
in a perfect way. Simple yet powerful object-oriented
programming is possible, all such well linked
to the visual parts of each element.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
"This site
is immersive and informative. This
is the perfect blend between documentary
video and website. It brings a level
of interactivity that you can't do
with just video alone. The design
is thematic and well done and the
content is delivered in a way that
viewers will want to continue to explore
the site."
"What a great way to extend
the capabilities of a documentary
video. Well done!"
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