The Wild West Project
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Jason Brezinski
(310) 387-9522
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This was the first project I designed. The Wild West was a 10 part Ken Burns
style documentary; talking heads interspersed with actors reading over
panandscan
photos. We fit 5 episodes, heavily edited, on each of the two
CDROMs
of the product.
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This is the opening screen of each disc. I placed the title of each episode
roughly where it was most relevant to the episode; for instance, the episode
about Indians dealt a lot with the Indians of the Northern Plains.
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I came at the design of The Wild West CDROM
as a recently escaped history
graduate student. With my experiences in grad school so fresh in my mind, I
approached the design project from the point of view of a student. I put in an
index for each episode, envisioning a student wanting to quickly get to a specific
piece of information. When the user select a heading in that list, the video would
jump to the relevant section of the episode.
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This was my design for the integration of other content in the project. We got
raw music files from the producers of the documentary. I researched and found
the lyrics to the songs. The titles for the songs of each episode showed up in the
window to the right of the piano player. Clicking on a song caused the audio for
that song to play and the lyric sheets, the second screen up there, to appear.
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