Phase 4 : Exercise 1

A PDF of Exercise 1 can be found here.

As Catie and I collaborated over the lists of words and values that make up the type/rationale of our collector, as well as the physical and emotive characteristics of the collection, it struck me that there is something of a paradoxical dichotomy in the nature of the collection itself. On one hand, it presents factual information in a scientific and organized fashion. On the other hand, however, the collection also contains a base of largely theoretical/hypothetical information. (Behavior patterns are never absolute as there are always exceptions and overlap.)

It's my feeling that the visual system and 'voice' of the collection should remain controlled and somewhat neutral to reflect Emily Pearson's training and professionalism as a Law Officer. However, there will need to be some disctintion established between the cold hard facts of the bullets and the perceptual analyses of the behavior patterns and personalities. This section of the collection "package" (at least the web/interactive version of it, anyway) could include a forum/blog supporting ongoing intellectual discussions relating to various perceived patterns. Again, as maintaining and administrating a totally public forum of this nature would be a headache, especially for one working full time and attending school, I'm leaning towards the idea that the site should be set up on a semi-restricted basis. (How to actually pull this off in the physical execution of our project is something we will have to discuss with Eddy and undoubtedly read up on, as neither Catie nor myself are exactly wizards in Dreamweaver at present.)

The attached PDF file summarizes where we stand in terms of classifying our collection/collector thus far. Hopefully, some initial sketches for visual system development will make it up here by tomorrow evening.

That's all for now.