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Page 4 — User Relations (Draft Version)

by Donald Goodes, NFB 2001


The NFB Auteur Animation Web Site seeks to address the needs of multiple user groups. These are defined as follows:


  What users can do… Site sections they can do it in…
1.  Experience cultural product, i.e. the art of Auteur animation in clips or full projects/productions/films
  • Independent Auteur Animation Theatre
  • Collaborative Work Station Projects
  • Feedback Pit
  • Visiting Artist Presentations
  • Most Significant Current AA Projects
  • Cinemateque Theatres
  • Auteur Animation Inventory
  • Everything You Wanted to Know about AA
  • AA Museum Exhibitions
  • Media-rich discussion groups and forums

2. Advance their knowledge and understanding of the phenomenon of auteur animation.
  • Almost all parts of the site give some sort of information on auteur animation. It can be didactic as in What Is Auteur Animation, or implicit as in the Cinemateque theatre experiences.
3. Gain insight into the creative process of auteur animation film making
  • Independent Auteur Animation Open Theatre
  • Collaborative Workstation Projects
  • Feedback Pit
  • Visiting Artist
  • Discussion Groups
  • Good References
  • Repertory Theatres
  • AA Project Reference Guide
  • People Reference Guide
  • Studios, Organisations and Schools Reference Guides
  • Everything You Wanted to Know About AA
  • AA Reference Centre
  • AA FAQ's
  • AA Museum

4. Actively interact with the site by:  
i/ Contributing artistic content, e.g. users' creative works
  • Independent Auteur Animation Theatre
  • Canadian AA Project Inventory
  • On-Line Creative Tools

ii/ contributing ideas and information
  • All forums and discussion groups
  • Feedback Pit
  • Bulletin Board
  • Members' Pages
  • AA Top 20 Lists
  • AA Reference Centre
  • All sections of the Canadian AA Projects, People, Studios, Organisations and Schools

iii/ bringing questions and getting answer
  • Feedback Pit
  • Visiting Artist
  • Bulletin Board
  • Most Significant…Community Feedback Loop
  • AA FAQ's
  • Email to various people listed on the site and site managers
  • Discussion Groups

iv/ engaging in creative projects
  • Collaborative Work Station
  • On-Line Creative Tools

5. Can feel confident that they know what's going on in Auteur animation: in Canada, Quebec, La Franophonie and beyond to the world.
  • Hottest Auteur Animation (all)
  • Canadian Auteur Animation Projects, People, Studios, Organisations and Schools

6. Can control their on-going relationship with the site using tools to:  
i/ customize their experience according to their evolving needs/desires
  • Membership
ii/ to track what they find valuable in the site
  • Backpack
7. Users can quickly find what they need and want through various searches, and are given offers to stimulate them on this quest.

  • Searches and offers throughout the site
8. Users can experience the site through creative non-linear navigation paths (subjective guides narratives). Each of these paths represents a clearly defined subjective position, sensibility, POV. They can range from bringing the user through the site to show them what's new, to authored experiences leading the user through the site.

  • Subjective Experience Guides
9. Users can Shop
  • Exit to Boutique through various project pages in Most Significant AA Projects and Project Reference Guide
  • Exit to Boutique linked with Film Clip and Full Film experiences in Cinematheque and Museum

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May 2002