After weeks of shouting repeatedly at the Macs in NR2 and getting more and more frustrated with Flash, my individual project is finally complete.
I’ve spoken about some of the inspiration behind the project already but here is the video of Sports Illustrated again anyway …
With web 2.0 allowing users to interact with websites on a much greater level than ever before, interactive magazines for the ipad are a step up from this. I wanted to create something that users could interact with that used a variety of platforms – audio, video, images and text.
I also liked the way The Guardian use their chalkboard feature to demonstrate statistics and wanted to include this in my project. Simply stating statistics in a match report can be meaningless, whilst showing them in a visual manner makes them far more relevant.
I felt the chalkboards worked well on my personal project as they highlighted perfectly the improvement of Theo Walcott. Rather than just telling people how he had improved, the chalkboards allowed me to show people how he had impacted the game. The graph from ‘Many Eyes’ that showed the statistics of the whole game also demonstrated the superiority of Arsenal over Burnley in a visual manner.
I felt I managed to use a variety of platforms in the project which was my main aim. There was a mixture of text, video, images and audio making it different to your average match report. If I was to improve the project I would perhaps include a slideshow of images, similar to how football365.com show key images from games.
Perhaps having some audio from fans would have added another dimension to the project. Predictions before the game and how they felt about the result afterwards in vox pop form would give the project more of a fan feel.
