Environmental Issues Video

My promo film will focus on the environmentally friendly aspects of the festival. I thought of this after seeing this on the Meadowlands website:

Im going to include interview footage that everyone took at the media day of organisers talking about the environmental issues like using biofuel. And...

Ideas:

On the way back from college today I went to Glynde to have a look and take some photos

Glynde Place is closed until May so I couldn't get in the grounds. This is the front though

And this is from the side

Not sure if this land is part of the festival site because it was a bit further down the hill from the house. The notice says about the licence being extended for live music and 'refreshments'.

Alpaca Farm

I even found some actual butterflies!

Glynde was really pretty in the sun with all the flowers. Tomorrow I'm going back with my sister to do some filming.

PLAN

-- Update --

Plan failed - feel ill. This does mean I've got all day to do a better plan though.

Next Job - Redesigning the main site navigation with Jessie and Louis

http://uxmovement.com/navigation/why-hover-menus-do-users-more-harm-than-good

Me and Louis looked at the lineup pages for V festival and Reading Festival. They use the bands' logos and grid layouts.
We should drop the hover menus and make it easier to get to the lineup like on the Reading site:

Reading have an A-Z button as well as a list arranged by stage and day.

And V Festival have the lineup right on the home page - 0 clicks away!

I don't think the lineup is as important to Meadowlands because the bands aren't as well known and it's all about the atmosphere and the range of acts performing.

Could get rid of the side-bar? Or definately redesign it. it doesnt need the links to all the blog posts because everything should be accessable from the banner.

Still need twitter bar, facebook button, radio reverb button. Maybe last.fm button?

Simon says:
960px wide
Home page should be 700ish px long - most important things above the fold
avoid using plugins

Client says:
keep logo, borders and all branding.

Colours need to be the same too, or v similar.

Don't have wide columns of text, they are hard to read and look minging.
Would be nice to have a carousel like these to show the latest pictures/videos/features.

but that would probably require a plugin which Simon said aren't good because Alison, who does the website using Wordpress, won't be able to maintain it in the future.

Lineup Page Plan

--Update-- We are going to do this after Easter and concentrate on the videos first.

Show Poster

Poster ideas for End of Year Show in May

The Plan

What came out of crit?

Well:

We are each doing a web app that works but isn't fully featured.
As a team we will make a working web app for the actual festival that takes the content from the existing meadowlandsfestival.com. Mark like's Jessie's mobile site design best so we will make it work with her design.

We will also all make our own video. Footage will be taken by anyone though, as not everyone will be at the media event or the festival.

MY JOB is to write questions for interviews that will be done on Sunday at the media event thing.

General Questions

What kind of weekend can people expect to have
whats the atmosphere like
whats the range of music/performers like
why is it a good alternative to the big performances? / whats special about meadowlands
How did meadowlands start?

Environmental Questions

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