Okay, so I'm a little late to the game here (the series finished airing last
month), but I've just stumbled across the BBC's 'explore the paintings'
microsite for the Desperate Romantics series:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/desperateromantics/paintings/
There's only 6 paintings (one per episode), but wow, you can really zoom in
(and in full screen too). Plus there's an audio commentary. Although I think
the main attraction is that, if you've watched the episodes, you already
know a bit of the backstory behind each of the paintings (albeit somewhat
fictionalised), so there's an instant celebrity factor that you usually only
get with works like the Mona Lisa and Tracey Emin's bed.
Tis a shame however, that even though the individual museums get a credit
and a link (yay for the Tate and Lady Lever gallery), these links simply go
to the website homepages, rather than a specific page about that painting
(with a different type of interpretation).
Anyway, I think the main lesson from this, is that one way of engaging
people in your collection is to spend a few million on a TV drama about
it... :-)
Frankie
P.S looks like the agency who produced the microsite was Cogent Design:
http://www.cogent-design.com/case-studies/case-studies-BBC.htm and the flash
zooming library is from Zoomorama: http://www.zoomorama.com/ (+10 for not
being in Silverlight, -1 for using Flash over javascript).
--
Frankie Roberto
Experience Designer, Rattle
0114 2706977
http://www.rattlecentral.com
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