What is XV
June 8th, 2010
Visit Site: http://whatisxv.com
This is our student directory from my class at Hyper Island, Karlskrona. We did this site during the Marketing and promotion module and the purpose of it is to promote us as students and learn how to work with the whole group of 36 students.
What is XV?
XV means 15 in roman letters.
Three years ago Hyper Island went from the numbered crew concept to labeling classes with abbreviations, ordered by completion year and location. This ended a fine tradition. A tradition in which we would have been the 15th crew, instead of our current label DM11KNA, Digital Media 11 Karlskrona.
We felt that the crew tradition carried a great brand value and we wanted to rebrand the crew concept and salvage some of the value, so we created the secret Hyper Island Order and the 15th Chapter.
Process
This project was a huge one with 36 guys involved, many ideas and thoughts at the same time, do’s and dont’s & pros and cons.
The whole class become later divided in to different groups.
- Documentation
- Invite letters
- Invite video
- Finance
- Photo
- Web production
My role
My role in the XV project was developer.
I was involved in the whole idea development phase as well. Me and a small group of people finalized the idea of the website.
In production we were only four guys working on the website. The designers; Alexander Gårdenberg and John Karlsson and the developers, me and Henrik Porseland. We did it all in Flash first, but since all the hype around the iPad I decided to create a HTML/Javascript version of it as well. I was also responsible for the back-end of the site. I did a small CMS for the site and connected it to the flash and html version.
I’m happy with the final result and I learnt a lot during this module. A lot of AS3, Javascript and of course group dynamics.
Hope you enjoy the site!
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