All Finished
Ok got the website finished, got the CSS styles to work, the artefact is all done and so it the Mapping.
The Intersice link is http://www.marystaggsdetox.com/Vicky/index.html
That opens the main page and you can link to the main story from there.
For the story of it going wrong, which is set further into the future it’s
http://www.marystaggsdetox.com/Vicky/deathdome1.htm
Mapping Final
Yay! It’s finished!
In Mark’s tutorial we finalised the map presentation thing, as it’ll be too hard to get a paper version working, we’re going to be sticking to the Flash map presentation and also a video that was taken over the weekend with fibre optics changing colour to show the different stages and where they got to.
But for that one we concentrated it on one e-mail that we sent just to show the path that it took.
We’ve set it out so that it looks like a web map or network map which really is what it came out as anyway, it’s also relevant as it started or is about an e-mail going places via the web.
The link for the Flash part of the mapping is: http://www.oholmwood.com/stuff/digitalmap.swf
There is also a link to the mapping results that we took on Monday it’s Mapping Results
The video with the fibre optics link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh1_LO1akQg
What we wanted to do with this mapping project was show links between people and how far these links go i.e. you can go as far as you can geographically in a few number of people i.e. there is a theory that you can link yourself to someone else by 6 people.
In a way this has been shown by the fact that by I think 3 people we’ve got the e-mail from Plymouth to Prague, and then also to South Africa. Also it shows how far the e-mail can reach in a small space of time, we’ve also shown the web being mapped by this e-mail.
Overall I think the project went well, we got enough results to show our mapping and to display the data that we want to, everyone who forwarded the e-mail or at nearly all of them filled in the form that we sent out as part of the e-mail.
Which meant we got results back, which we were all a bit unsure about as there was no way we were able to guess if 1) anyone would participate and 2) how far it’ll go before people stopped sending it on.
As with most things you experiment there are methods that would be used the second time round which were missed when you first set it up. For instance I feel that there could have been a better way to show the links to each person, as when you get lots of replies saying they got it from Plymouth it was hard to guess who in Plymouth they got it from.
It’s not quite so bad when they are in a location that can be traceable to one person i.e. Southampton or Essex way but as was seen in the stage 2 or 3 but when you were getting results from Plymouth in the later stages we had to guess that they came from me as I live in Plymouth and all the friends bar one who I sent it to lives in Plymouth also.
I also know that some got confused or didn’t like the whole idea of the stage, and I must admit that when I first sent the e-mail on I did forget to change the stage and so had to send another one explaining it, and I’m part of the group who wrote the e-mail and thought of how to link!
Dome Report
I showed Kat the story that I had written last night, and she thought it was funny…she was actually laughing as she was reading it, she couldn’t even read it to Claudia and Ollie because she was laughing so much.
But she does have a weird sense of humour so I don’t know if thats because my story of people killing others to have their house or it is just her sense of humour…we’ll have to wait and find out.
She told me she had problems with her story last night as her computer kept crashing every five minutes, and I really know how that feels, so we’ve still got some work to do.
We at least have the pages done, with pictures so I can include them in my story, we did however have problems with CSS styles the don’t seem to work with the BBC website although we got them straight off the internet just like the html for the page itself.
As Kat’s computer keeps crashing I’ll be sorting them out tonight, just hope that I can get it all done in time for the deadline tonight. I know it’s at midnight but if it goes wrong could take some time to fix, and then it’s also changing it around so that it’ll work with what we’re trying to get it to do.
So here goes!
Story – Intersices
On Thursday me and Kat met up to begin work on this, we had our idea and how we were going to go about it, also what would go wrong and how it’ll effect the society around it.
We started the start page to say that these Domes were going to be put in place, with just the headline and other headlines and mini feeds for other news in the future.
We had some fun making up what would happen, and some of the stories I must admit are a bit stupid but still its a laugh like Gap Kids bringing out a new range of baby space suits.
We completed that on Thursday including the pictures, only the links don’t work just yet, but we’ll tackle that today when we join both the story introducing the Domes and what goes wrong.
Over the weekend it was my job to write and produce the website to do with “What goes wrong” which I wrote up last night, I did put it in place of a story but we need to work on a picture and the links. Also I want to show Kat what I’ve written and to get her opinio on it, and see if she thinks I need to change anything to it.
Kat was working on the story of the Domes being introduced by the Government to the country, not sure if she’s included how they’ll work, if not we can work on that together today.
I think today in Mike’s lecture if we’re allowed to we should work on getting the links into the story working, I also want to check with him if other links need to work also.
We may also have to show the start up page to show the headline for the Domes going wrong, again I’ll need to discuss this with Kat today.
Personally I feel that I’ve some what neglected this assignment, I’ve been too preoccupied with the Mapping and the Artefact to take much notice and work on it. I didn’t realize how much work would be involved with it i.e. getting the links working and stuff.
Although it didn’t take me long to write the story and to place it in the layout of the website there is still a lot of work to do, for instance we haven’t yet been able to find a good enough picture of a dome to show what it’ll look like. So we’re going to make one in Illustrator which also needs to be done today, if there is time if not we’ll have to make do with one we find on the internet.
Status report
Now that I’ve completed the Artefact project I can work on the story for the “Life Domes”.
Just like with the start page me and Kat worked on on Thursday I copied the source code for story page to insert my story in there. And copied that into Dreamweaver to begin writing it.
I did start of typing it up in there, but changed my mind and decided to write it in Microsoft Word instead as I could use Shift F7 to get different words instead of using the same ones again and again.
It ended up being longer than I thought it would be but not sure if it’s alright to use have to wait and see what Kat things, I wasn’t sure which news company it should come from so I used both a Sky News page an the BBC page, I began with the Sky News as we had used BBC News previously but it was a lot harder to edited stuff out as it had lots of adverts and stuff.
As I had written the story up in Word I could simply copy and paste it over to the BBC News format, I’ve saved them both on my USB memory stick to show Kat tomorrow in Uni.
Inverting Photos
For the mapping project it’s my job this weekend to turn photographs into negative so we can use them for the thermal imageing effect for the paper and digital map.
I’m going to use a variety of photos so that the rest of the group can choose which ones we want to use, and which areas of the photo’s or what colours we’re going to use to display the information.
I’ll print them all out as well as save them to my USB so that we can edit them as we choose or cut out the colours right away without having to find a printer. As there are a lot of photo’s or quite a few I’ll have to open them in word and print them from there so as to get them all on one page etc. which will change the look of it but it’s not the photo that we’ll looking at but more of the colours.
I’ve inverted all the photos’ now just need to save them and then print them out which I hope won’t take too long, but I don’t see why it shouldn’t.
Mapping Progress
The results are in, it’s time to link them!
Although we had written down the results on Monday we hadn’t yet linked them to each other, which we tackled on Friday it was a bit hard at first as we’ve all come from Plymouth, some had skipped stages and some just went to dead ends or didn’t seem to get from anywhere.
We had to re-draw again and again the links to get it just write or as close as we could get it, now that the links have been done we needed to discuss how we’d display this information.
As Mike didn’t want to see an actual map it did cause a slight problem…how could we show the e-mails?
We finally decided on a flash project showing the network of the e-mails, where they went from, and went to this would be showed in a form of lines going from one place to another with different colours to show the different stages…and where in the world they got.
We also want to show it in a physical form and not just digital, Ollie was going to be doing the flash as he was away for the weekend so Kat, Claudia and I were doing the “paper” version.
To show how many people in one area got the e-mail we’ll be using something similar to thermal imaging, because you can’t access any thermal images on the internet we’re going to have to compromise and make our own.
To do this we’ll take an image and invert it so we’ll get different colours and brightness of colours, and depending on how many of each area got the e-mail is the colour it’ll be shown on paper.
So in Plymouth if there were 6 people who got it have a brighter colour or darker whichever one we decide than say Calstock who only got 1 e-mail sent there.
It’s my job to inverting the pictures which I’ll use Photoshop to do. Kat and Claudia will be working on the link to each place. we’ll meet up probably on Monday if not before to join everything up.
Working on the “Life Domes”
Today I met up with Kat to get our ideas down on paper and then onto the computer, originally we were going to do a website as well as an advert on Flash to promote this idea to the Government.
However we soon threw that idea out, as it’ll take too long to get the Flash working in the way we want, or draw a plan to show to the fake Government.
We then decided to do two websites, or more precise two news stories, one showing the Domes being brought in and describing how they work etc. and then one set further into the future with everything going wrong and the problems that occurred because of these “Life Domes”.
To begin with we did the front page of the website, we took the source code of the BBC News site and put that into Dreamweaver, we then selected each separate story and just edited the details to future news stories which we made up.
We also changed the pictures, and realated stories to them.
This took most of the afternoon as we spent about half an hour trying to find a place to work as all the rooms in Babbage floor 2 where being used for lectures, and in the Open Access room we couldn’t find two computers together. We did end up for an hour in one room by Open Access which could be used as long as no lecture was taking place.
We had to leave though as a class was coming in, we took that opportunity to go get an Ibby’s which we ate in the Canteen in Babbage.
Going back to work was when we completed the firs site, the next job for us was to do the individual stories, which we’d both work on over the weekend.
Monday Mapping
We got together as a group to seive through our results, and deicde how to turn this data into a map…we got quite a few replies about 30 of them which is pretty good they all stopped around stage 6 we think.
What we’re going to do will be using string or chain to show the chains between each people, we’re trying to link them to one of us by the area and where they got it from…which is proving slightly more difficult when you have mulitple people from the same city even if it’s a different stage as some are at the same stage in the same city (i.e. Plymouth). We’ll also going to use Themal images of each city or like thermal images to show how many responses we got from each area for instance if we got 6 replies from London and only 2 from Cornwall than there’ll be more “heat” or “Thermal” in that area…around the circle of string/chain.
Don’t know what this is going to look like, but be fun and interesting to produce!
Below is the list of results we got from the e-mails.
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Stage 2 |
Stage 3 |
Stage 4 |
Stage 5 |
Stage 6 |
Stage 7 |
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Babbage,Plymouth |
Calstock (Plymouth) |
Limehouse, London (Cornwall) |
Stoke Newington, London (London) |
Hertfordshire (Prague) |
Plymouth (Plymouth) |
South Ockendon, Essex (Aveley, Essex) |
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Peverell, Plymouth |
Plymouth (Plymouth) |
Prage (Plymouth) |
Hornchurch (Plymouth) |
Plymouth (Plymouth) |
Plymouth (Plymouth) |
Essex (Essex) |
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St Thomas Ct, Plymouth |
Plymouth (Plymouth) |
New York (London) |
Grays, Essex (Plymouth) |
Randburg,South Africa (Amsterdam) |
Chafford Hundred, Thurrock (Aveley, Thurrock) |
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Gibbon Street, Plymouth |
Bristol (Plymouth) |
Bristol (Bristol) |
Grays, Essex (Plymouth) |
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South Ockendon, Essex (Aveley, Essex) |
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Plymouth (Plymouth) |
New York (London) |
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North Hill, Plymouth (Babbage) |
Plymouth (Plymouth) |
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Plymouth (Plymouth) |
Plymouth (Plymouth) |
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Norwich, Norfolk (St Thomas Ct) |
Bristol (Plymouth) |
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Essex (Plymouth) |
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Plymouth (Plymouth) |
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Eastleigh,Southampton (Plymouth) |
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Dome and Dream idea
Tomorrow afternoon me and Kat are meeting up to start work on the Intersices project, we know what we want to do, and have added a few ideas…so tomorrow we’ll just talk about the Social effect it’ll have and any problems and begin on the Newspaper front page and new story of it.
We’re going to try and do two paper stories…one for when this technology is first used and it’s reasons for use, what the public think etc. and another one for a later date when it goes wrong or problems occur because of this technology…I’ll update this more tomorrow after our meeting.
