Welcome to my documentary project website. This website was based on of my Freestyle Academy junior year documentary project. The goal of this project was to "uncover the untold story of a location". This prompt started in English; and we were asked to come up with a location to do this project. I thought for a while and then the idea of New Almaden Quicksilver Mine and Museum came to mind. After coming to the consensus of New Almaden I was tasked with showing the untold story.
New Almaden has a lot of history and I properly wanted to pay homage to. However, because it was a documentary project research had to be conducted. I used 6 sources from books and educational websites and 3 interviews with people who volunteer and or work at New Almaden. However, because I am apart of Freestyle it would go farther than just the English bare bones. In my other two Freestyle classes (web-audio and design) would show how to professionally show New Almaden through other mediums. I will start with design where we were tasked with making a professional book. To do this we used InDesign, (a program that is used by professionals to build books and mages), photography, and skills we learning such as of color scheme and composition. Both of these mediums were used in my design class, however, when it came to web audio we had to take the physical book and push it into the 21st century into the world of electronics.
This website was built to replicate the book we designed in design, our essay in english in an electronic form. The design aspect was integrated using photographs and the design elements of color scheme and composition. However, to add panache in the electronic world we learned and used other programs like reason, which is a audio suite application used for recording and making music. We also learned how to make a audio slideshow, and we additionally learned more ways to improve our website.