Mapping Glastonbury.

Discover the V&A’s Glastonbury Festival Archive and explore 50 years of sights, sounds and memories. While the page is loading the speaker is telling the user that a loading image is currently on screen. When landing on the start page of Mapping Glastonbury the user has to click with the mouse/cursor on the middle of the screen, so the information will be read out to them. By clicking down with the mouse on the screen the user will land on the “Start button”, which will tell the user that the page is proceeding. After that the user is on the onboarding screen. By clicking with the mouse in the middle of the screen, the speaker is explaining 3 different steps in how to move around the map . To proceed to the main site, the user has to click underneath the explanation to hit the “Close button”. By starting the experience, the user has to click with the mouse in the middle of the screen. There are multiple function on this experience. To turn off the sound the user has to click on the bottom right side, the speaker will say “Sound toggle” and the background music will stop or start. On the top right we have the “About button”, this will guide the user onto a different page explaining what this experience is about. To get the information the user has to click with the mouse on the middle of the screen. The same button click will exit the “About” page and will land on the experience again. If the user wishes to share this experience, they have to click on the “Share button” on the top left. This button will extend to two more buttons underneath. The first is for Facebook and the second is for Twitter. Once one of them is clicked, a new window will open asking for the users logins on the social media page. This experience has filters, which the user can select to only get information that they are interested in. Those filters are on the right hand side of the webpage. The page has 6 different filters, starting with “Memories button”, “Visions button”, “Sounds button”, “Spaces button”, “Experiences button” and ending with “Locations button”. By selecting a filter, the nodes on the map will only show information matching the filter. Once the user clicked on a node, the speaker is saying what is on screen and what the description is. The nodes are all positioned on the left hand side of the screen. To get further information of each node the user has to click with the mouse slightly on the left bottom so the reader will tell them more. The “Sounds button” filter is only for audio files. To play the sound, the user has to click on the left hand side in the middle. To exit each node and go back to the main site, the user has to click with the mouse on the top in the middle of the screen. This experience has 5 different eras to explore, to choose one of them the user has to click on the bottom center position. The starting era is the “2010s”. The speaker will let the user know if they are proceeding to “1970s”, “1980s”, “1990s” or “2000s”. If the user would like to restart the experience the have to click with the mouse on the bottom left. The speaker will say “V&A” and the user is back at the starting page.

Created by WeAreFreak
Produced in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council.