I actually can't remember experiencing a website which is so 'atmospheric' before. I think this is really impressive - inspiring actually - congratulations!
Paul
(I have experienced some problems with the video playback, where the video keeps going smoothly but the audio buffers in patches (so I can see your lips moving but no sound). I'm on a fibre broadband connection and using a 2-year old iMac running the latest MacOSX so this may not be a 'local' problem.)
> On 4 Dec 2014, at 12:11, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> It's beautiful, lovely, compelling. Nice one, Danny et al!
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> Anra Kennedy wrote:
>> Hi Danny
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>> Congratulations! I love this. It had me absolutely hooked - mesmerised in fact.
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>> I'm particularly interested to see it using a (partially) linear and very focussed approach - you're requiring me to 'commit' to being told a story and I whilst I can still pick and choose which story and skip/pause/view galleries etc I can also choose to give myself over to the immersive experience. Whilst I don't miss many of those totally linear, old flash interactives so many of us made a few years back, that trapped users into a long and locked-in narrative, I do sometimes feel that we've gone too far the other way, leaving users with too much of the legwork to do themselves, too much choice and not enough depth. This feels like a good balance to me.
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>> Looks great too - high quality video, amazing images, simple nav. It did freeze my ancient old laptop (using FF) for a long time whilst loading but was worth the wait :)
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>> Anra
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Birchall, Danny
>> Sent: 04 December 2014 09:33
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [MCG] Mindcraft: a new digital story from Wellcome Collection
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>> Dear MCGers
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>> I thought you might be interested in something Wellcome Collection launches today, the first in a series (we hope) of 'digital stories' exploring our collections. It's called 'Mindcraft' and tells a six-part history of mesmerism and mind control in the nineteenth century history.
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>> http://digitalstories.wellcomecollection.org/
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>> Aside from a little self-publicity (forgive me, it's been a long haul), I thought it might be interesting for the list because it's an atypical digital museum project. We wanted to find new ways of telling stories online, using our digitised collections as sources, rather than creating something that explained an existing digitised collection. We also wanted to expose people to original and new digitised content (some of which was digitised specially for this project) without dropping them into researcher-oriented catalogues, so we've embedded Wellcome Library's player into the experience - you can access the digitised resources (and download hi-res Creative Commons images, natch) from within the story.
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>> Your thoughts on what we've done (and the more general issues raised) would be very welcome.
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>> Thanks
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>> Danny
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>> Danny Birchall
>> Digital Manager, Wellcome Collection
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