Interview questions

 

BJ:  Just answer these truthfully because even your criticisms can be directions for further research or something.

 

  1. How many times do you think you might have watched the animations?

 

*     I only watched it twice.

 

  1. Were they helpful?

 

*     Definitely.  The visual idea of things was just perfect.

 

  1. Can you think of any improvements?

 

*     In terms of?

 

BJ:  Well  had a comment that it was too fast and I was thinking you can always press pause or replay or whatever.

 

*     Yes but if people aren’t familiar that you can do that in Flash then that was one thing. (BJ:  Note to reader: The Flash player doesn’t have the versatility that I thought it did .  This has now been rectified by converting all of the video files to video format so that these functions are available).

 

*     I find that when you’re doing different topics they could be broken up so they’re not in the same format all the time.  Even using a colour or a different form of layout.

 

BJ:  You mean a bit of variety?

 

*     Yes, definitely.

 

BJ:  I was going to have a colored background for each one but I tried not to have anything in there that wasn’t needing to be there.  That’s something I can look at.

 

  1. Do you think children would be able to understand them?

 

*     I’d say from Grade 5 onwards they would easily be able to understand them.

 

BJ:  I originally wrote them for children but the ethics approval was even more involved than what it was for this so that’s why it ended up being adults.

 

  1. Now for just a bit of a background on yourself.  What’s the first concert you remember attending?

 

*     U2 in 1985.

 

  1. What’s your favourite album? 

 

*     “New Forms” by Ronnie Size and “Come with us” by the Chemical Brothers.

 

  1. And is there anything else that comes to mind about this whole process?

 

*     I think the best way to learn music and things like that is with visualization.  When you think of reading music it’s a very visual medium.  In terms of looking at the notes and everything it’s just bang, bang, bang so to read music with that extra element of animation, I reckon it’s a really good format.