my (ben weldon) dot

a creative whiteboard since 1999

Month: August 2002

  • Cornwall 2002 Lomo

    Cornwall 2002 Lomo

    My first summer in Polly Joke Camp-site.

    cartwheels
    fire1
    fire2
    fire3
    group
    kathryn-and-the-sea
    mattinfrontsun

  • Disney Channel – Real time TV voting. 2004

    Star Ticket

    A kids TV equivalent of pop idol, from national auditions to final band this Flash site had to offer live voting and statistics that ran simultaneously with the TV show. The stats also pulled in information of the phone, text, and digital TV votes.

    As the show grew I had to design and develop content for competitions, design a logo was the most complicated giving the kids a mini art package to play with.

    Due to a huge amount of red tape, it takes 5 days to make a live change on the server, this meant the 10 week show had to run to the second from the beginning. I did this using server clocks and a lot of planning.

    Launch pop-up – 5th week in
    Launch launch pop-up – post show site

    Kids Awards

    An industry awards ceremony voted for by the kids. For this project i developed flash content, displayed the information and recorded votes for over 100 acts. My code then had to be integrated with Disney’s data capture procedure. The final show was in front of a live audience of 10,000 and an international TV audience of Millions.

    (I went and got on TV)

    Launch pop-up – voting site
    Launch pop-up – post show site

    Kids awards final site.

  • Reuters / JCDecaux

    Reuters / JCDecaux

    Working with Reuters and JCDecaux, I designed and produced a piece of software that downloads an XML file from the Reuters news server, processes it, downloads the pictures from a different server and lays it all out neatly on sceen at 15 seconds intervals. This was then intergrated with JCDecaux software and their advertising to produce this final application.

    Eurostar terminal, Waterloo, London. Here this 5 meter screens displays news to thousands of international and national train passengers every day.

    Reuters news display at Heathrow. 9.4 million people pass this screen each year.

    A similar application is now used on news screens in offices throughout London. Other features include share price update, that requires 36 digit alpha numeric code, changed every 12 hours on a secure server.