Media regulation
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Eisteddfod
An Eisteddfod is
a Welsh festival of poetry, music and literature. It dates back to the 12th
century, when the festival was held by Lord Rhys ap Gruffydd of Deheubarth at his court in Cardigan in 1176. There were invited
poets and musicians from all over the country. The prize for the best poet and
musician was a Lord’s chair. This tradition was inherited by the modern eisteddfod
National Eisteddfod of Wales, which is now the largest festival of competitive
poetry and music in Europe. The earliest large scale Eisteddfod was the Carmarthen
Eisteddfod in 1451.
Interest in Welsh art declined
after the order of Elizabeth I of England to examine and license the bards. It
revives again in 1789, when Thomas Jones organized an eisteddfod in Corwen and the public was part of the
festival.
Welsh Dragon
The red dragon is commonly associated with the Welsh flag.
It is also a Welsh symbol, which popularity is supposed to evolve from a
Roman-British national symbol. The oldest record of the red dragon dates back
to 829 AD. It was written in the Historia Brittonum or the History of the
Britons which is the history of native British people.
The
red dragon represents Welsh things and it is used by native people and private
organizations.
Mabinogion
Mabinogion is a little collection of eleven pose stories
gathered from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales represent pre-Christian Celtic mythology,
international folktale motifs, and early medieval historical traditions. Some
of the details of these tales date back to older Iron Age traditions. In the mid-19th century, the
English translator Lady Charlotte Guest was the first who translates Mabinogion in English and popularizes
its name.
The word Mabinogion
originally indicates only the Four Branches of the
Mabinogi which
are the most popular poses from the collection.
Welsh sports, music and
literature
There are ranges of sporting, musical and literature
traditions associated with Wales.
sports
-Wales takes a major place at world sporting events such
as the FIFA World Cup, Rugby World Cup and the Commonwealth Games. Glamorgan County Cricket Club is the only participant in England. It also has world-class
participants in snooker and boxing as well as athletes who have won a great
number of Olympic, World and European medals.
music
-Wales is known with its harpists, male choirs and solo
artists. The annual National Eisteddfod is a Welsh festival of poetry and music that gives the
opportunity of musicians and singers to perform them as well as the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.
Traditional Welsh instruments are telyn deires (triple harp), fiddle, crwth, pibgorn (hornpipe) and other instruments.
literature
-Some of the notable Welsh singing artists are Sir Geraint Evans, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Dame
Anne Evans and Dame Margaret Price.
There are a lot of Welsh notable bands like Badfinger in the 1960s, Man and Budgie in the 1970s and The Alarm in the 1980s. Recently successful bands include Lostprophets, Bullet for My Valentine, Funeral for a Friend and Kids in Glass Houses.
Welsh literature traditions varied from the 6th
century until now. In the Middle Ages the core tradition was poetry and
storytelling as well as Welsh prose that contained religious and practical
works.
In the middle of the 16th century the poetry declined. It
was a period of political, social, and economical change in Wales.
The first Welsh book was printed in 1546 by Sir John Price of Brecon who was an aristocrat. Most of the Welsh publications
and poetry had a religious nature.
In the 19th century there was a slow pick up
in novel writing. One of the notable novelists was Daniel Owen, author of Rhys Lewis (1885) and Enoc Huws (1891).
Wales national rugby
union team
Rugby sport was introduced for the first time in Wales in
1850, when Reverend Rowland Williams became Vice-Principal at St David's College, Lampeter. The first Welsh club was established in 1871. The first
match was played in 1881 against England. The match was organized by Newport's Richard Mullock.
Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) was established in 1881. It represents Wales in
the international rugby tournaments. Its first ‘golden age’ was between 1900
and 1911. One of their first winnings was in 1995, they won New Zealand 3-0 at Cardiff
Arms Park. Their second ‘golden age’ was between 1969 and 1980 when they won eight Five Nations Championships.
Promotion
of Welsh language
Welsh
still remains to be a minority language. Nowadays, it is a compulsory subject
in schools until the age of 16. BBC Radio Cymru is a national Welsh language radio
that was launched in 1977. Golwg is a weekly national Welsh language magazine; Y
Cymro is a weekly newspaper and Golwg360 is a news service online. There are
also a lot of online and face to face Welsh courses. Welsh communities, spread
around Wales, help to revive Welsh.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Design
Ideas
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This is a rough sketch of compositions of my interactive story. The first composition represents a short introduction to the Brecon Beacons National Park. It also has an Enter button that leads to the Home page. The Home page begins with a short video of Brecon Beacons (it fits the whole window) followed by its menu and Brecon Beacons text that leads you back to the Introduction page. If any link of the menu is clicked, the video will stop and will become darker. Also, a text will appear on the right side which will give you relevant information. It will be possible to scroll up and down the text, using the arrows that are placed on the right side of it.
Introduction
Page
In my opinion, the second layout looks more interesting
because it has more effects applied to it. For example, it looks like a 3D map
along with the shading effects unlike the first layout. The white background of
the second layout strongly focuses our attention on the green map.
Monday, 8 October 2012
Home page
These are stories about a patch of land in Sydney, an infamous acre known as the Block, a place steeped in a rich history of Aboriginal culture, activism and hope. Over time, tragedy, drug abuse and crime crept into the Indigenous-owned housing precinct. In September 2010, the few remaining tenants received notice to vacate their homes. The Aboriginal Housing Company, which owned the crumbling terraces, was keen to redevelop the land. Now vacant, the Block sits on the verge of a new, uncertain rebirth. This virtual time capsule invites you to explore the Block, to witness the events that defined its 40-year history, and to meet the people whose lives it has shaped.
Website Layout
This interactive non-linear
narrative was designed
and built by SBS interaction specialist Matt Smith. The site was built in Adobe
Flash and it can be viewed from the Adobe Flash Player 11. Matt Smith also used
other tools like the code editor Flash Develop; the API
Stage 3D for the libraries; and the library Gaia to “manage the deep linking
and the transitions”. He also built the panorama engine. The site was designed
in Adobe Photoshop. Smith did not proceed in a conventional manner from a
wireframe to the final design. He jumped back and forth between design and the
build until he was satisfied with his work.
There were incorporated interactive media assets like text;
sounds of dogs barking, children playing and the constant ebb and flow of the
nearby train station; short five-minute clips; still images; interactive
panoramas.
The first stage in the production process was research and
interviews which took two weeks. Long raw interviews had to be edited to five-minute
clips as the target audience would be web users that do not watch for much
longer than five minutes. There were used two Canon 5Ds, an audio recorder, an
interviewer and some basic lighting equipment to record some former residents.
Production process:
1.
Learn – The most important part of the
production process is discovering and understanding what technology to use for
building the website according to the scope and goals of the project.
2.
Plan – The first step will act as a
foundation of the planning step which includes researching, note taking and
sketching
3.
Design - Creating assets for the
website, using Photoshop or Illustrator
4.
Code – Building up the website in Adobe
Flash and incorporating technology such as ActionScript, Flash Develop, API
Stage 3D and Gaia.
5.
Launch – The developer uses file
transfer protocol (FTP) in most cases to connect to the remote web server and
upload the website from a local folder to make the page publicly accessible
6.
Maintain - During the planning process,
the website developer should be in charge who will maintain the website
In my opinion, this interactive documentary is very
creative. I like the disappearing/appearing effect of interactive media assets
as well as the interactive panorama that virtually walks us through different
places of the Block. Its navigation menu is easy to understand.
I guess that this interactive non-linear narrative is
built up in Dreamweaver which is web design software which make and edit HTML
websites. Considering the source (Right Click the web page + Click Source), the
HTML code incorporates external JavaScript and CSS files using script and link tags. CSS is used to define how to display HTML elements so it
can be used instead of software such as Photoshop and Illustrator. JavaScript
is the most popular web scripting language. It is designed to add interactivity
to HTML pages.
The interactive story incorporates assets such as image, text, video, slideshow, graphic and audio.
The interactive story incorporates assets such as image, text, video, slideshow, graphic and audio.
Home page
Source code
Production process:
1.
Learn – The most important part of the production
process is discovering and understanding what technology to use for building
the website according to the scope and goals of the project.
2.
Plan – The first step will act as a
foundation of the planning step which includes researching, note taking and
sketching
3.
Design - Creating assets for the
website, using Photoshop or Illustrator
4.
Code – Building up the website in a
Dreamweaver, incorporating the assets and other scripts into HTML such as
JavaScript, jQuery, CSS and PHP
5.
Launch – The developer uses file
transfer protocol (FTP) in most cases to connect to the remote web server and
upload the website from a local folder to make the page publicly accessible
6.
Maintain - During the planning process,
the website developer should be in charge who will maintain the website
Waterlife
is a showcase for the documentary film of the same name that offers its
audience a wonderful preview of the lush cinematography and rich storytelling
found in the film. The true genius of the site, however, is found in its fluid
navigation that recalls the gentle motion of a lake.
Home Page
The web site is built up with Adobe Flash software and can be viewed by
the Adobe Flash Player 11. Such Flash web site must contain scripting language
ActionScript supported by the Flash software. It incorporates assets such as
graphics, texts, sounds, videos, images and 2D animations. The graphics, texts
and images could be created and edited in Photoshop or Illustrator.
Website Layout
Production
process:
- Learn – The most important part of the production process is discovering and understanding what technology to use for building the website according to the scope and goals of the project.
- Plan – The first step will act as a foundation of the planning step which includes researching, note taking and sketching
- Design - Creating assets for the website, using Photoshop or Illustrator
- Code – Building up the website in Adobe Flash software, incorporating the assets and scripting language ActionScript
- Launch – The developer uses file transfer protocol (FTP) in most cases to connect to the remote web server and upload the website from a local folder, to make the page publicly accessible
- Maintain - During the planning process, the website developer should be in charge who will maintain the website
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
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