Word Machine Finished

To make my machine insync with the website I used the same blocks found in the seating plan i made. I used a proportionate amount of blocks for each party and assembled them similar to the house. I found and cut up sound clips from speeches of each party. I dubbed directly through the internet through audio recording software. I was looking to find intersting parts of speeches to give good affect when overlayed. Using actionscript i assigned the buttons to the sound files which took a lot longer than i expected - but all my trial and error will help in the future. I ended up with a pretty funny player, i really like simplicity of it. Some current events covered to.

Word machine idea

I suggested to the group i could create a mash up player for words when you pressed buttons on the keyboard. i got my inspiration from this sound generator.

http://www.ronwinter.tv/drums.html

I then took my logo development a stage further by incorporating the seat layout i made and producing letters with the vectors. Started out with a mash up of colours:

The colours are a good representation of mash but the group thought a more simplistic look would be more effective.

I changed the majority to single white for the final and kept the orange lead-edge line. I am pretty happy with the final result against the green of our webpage.

Logo development

I had a go at making some logos for the site. 

My first one could possibly be used for our video masher, I took the idea from the T.V series M*A*S*H.

Second Idea was pretty basic, don't think i pulled it off all that well but just added a stylized tie on the bottom of a P. Font Based logo which can be very effective due to simplicity.

Pipe for home page

We wanted to create a pipe for the home page that would involve all content that was coming into our site through twitter feeds. When we generated a group of twitter searches using key words and the "union" function there were double-ups in the search results which wasn't ideal. To counter this problem we decided to follow specific peoples tweets, people who have specialize in parliamentary tweeting. 

Seating revisal

showed the group my first seat layout and we all agreed it was too busy and a bit complicated. I went back and generated a new seat layout usig more basic squares and single colours which represented each party.

Then i uploaded the corresponding colours for each party to drupal (I blanked out the other colours in light grey).

Seating Plan

I have just mocked up the parliamentary seating plan to be used in order to locate members of parliament and also to give a better understanding of how the members sit and who actually makes up power. I need to make the Seats scroll-over so you can see who is sitting where, probably display on the table at the front of the house. I have colour coded the seats. The picture to the left is from the elections 2008 and i like its simplicity.

This is the starting one i did:

Project 2

So i have begun figuring out pipes for the MP's and using twitter i can list updated information from public members as they come in. There still is the opportunity to establish picture linking within headings and i need to get the filter bar working more efficiently. We have decided to make the site more user orientated toward uploading video content, as youtube is to large. Making the users input their own snipets means they can tag word structure within the video and scentences will be easier to generate. Tag lines such as "MP" "Words Stated." if we could make nodes between words then the possibilities to create scentences is increased. I am currently making an interface for the MP's and a navigation page using a layout from the house of representatives chamber on Freehand.