lately iv been thinking about my SRP. mainly about the kind of users that would be potentially using my site. im quite happy with my idea of having a UCT sports site. i think it would be of great use to the various sports clubs. 

obviously my target audience would be the sports students of UCT, and in particular the ones from the clubs that would be featured on my site. 

in terms of my site strategy, mainly to make it easier to be a part of a sports team/club. Organising games, matches with other clubs, as well as incorporating a social calendar, would be possible to do with my site. i think a main feature on the site would also be the invention and discovery of a potential UCT mascot. 

the look and feel will be fresh, with a new kind of UCT flavour. incorporating the UCT colours - to energise some university spirit !

the first steps of my research was going onto the UCT site and searching for the various sports clubs and the information they have available for their users. the majority of the clubs don't have a site available, nor do they have any information accessible. the squash club has a site which only includes a homepage and does not allow you to navigate through it at all. so very pointless. i play league squash and actually had no idea this exists! not that it helps anyone anyway...

i am impressed by the tennis club, who have created their own blog. 

the netball club, like the squash club have their own site, with quite an interesting logo and the only thing accessible on the site is the gallery which consists of 5 pictures. 

 - this has made me very excited to get my project up and running - 

i plan on interviewing some key figures within some sports clubs to get their opinions on my project and if they think it will be of use to them and their clubs (i hope so!)

onto another project, karin and i have formed a partnership for our interactive documentary project on the history of klipfontein road. i will talk about this project in more detail in another post. at this stage, we have been researching like crazy. spent a couple of hours in the african studies library today looking at newspaper clippings from 1985... really cool actually. 

we have a couple of ideas right now, so we just need to narrow them down and then focus on a main aspect. 

oh - there is a documentary which we were shown in class, its done by the centre for popular memory, which is actually located on the UCT campus and its on youtube! no surprise there! its about klipfontein road..if you can, check it out. 

 

Centre for Popular Memory Documentary - Klipfontein Road