Inspiration Presentation Aaron Irwin My Influence • For my presentation I chose Murray Walker. Famous commentator and journalist within the Motorsport world. • Walker commentated on races from 1948- 2001 and always displayed enthusiasm. • He’s my inspiration because he was so passionate about Formula One his whole life. Mindmapping I created a mindmap to lay out all my ideas for my project, such as what to include in every section of my Immersive Web Experience (IWE) Mindmapping • By mapping out my IWE, I’ve found it easier to compartmentalise the aspects of Murray Walker’s long career. • My idea is take the reader on a progression of his career, beginning in his youth, showing his brief army and advertising career before focusing mainly on his motorsport commentary career. • However should the reader decide to skip to a certain section they are able to. This is my home page for my IWE. When readers open the file, this is the page which will greet them. A loading bar will appear across the bottom to let the reader know when it’s loaded. In order to start the IWE, the reader will click on the ‘Go, Go, Go!’ section. I chose this due to it being one of Murray’s famous catchphrases when commentating. In the bottom left corner is an option to mute the background noise, which will be famous snippets from his commentary career. Once the button is clicked it will take you to this page. Which gives a brief overview of why he’s so famous. Again commentary will be playing in the background with the option to mute it. I will include links to both the F1 ad the BTCC official sites. This page is a bridge between the contents page and the home page. As next will come a contents page with all the categories available to the reader. This will be my contents page. This will be the central page of my IWE, where readers will be redirected after they’ve finished reading the tab they’re on. Along the top are my contents. My categories into what people can read about. This is the start of the early life tab. Included here is clickable links which take you to both his and his father’s motorcycle results (helmet button) and to videos of them riding motorcycles together (playback button). The arrow on the right is to advance the early life tab, leading to another page with text and some soundbites of Murray reflecting on his younger years. This will be the second page, the links on the left remain available to click. This will tell another snippet of Murray’s young life. If you want you can go back through the back arrow under the video link. The sound will continue in the background as Murray continues to discuss his life. This will be the final page of the early life tab. After this the next button will take you to the next tab. This is to keep the continual feel and to keep the reader engrossed within the IWE. This leads you into the army tab wonderfully by telling you about Murray’s time in the School Corps. This is the first page of my Army tab. As he enjoyed a brief army career in World War Two I felt it was necessary to include it in the progression of his life. There is soundbites of Murray in the background discussing his army life as well as ambient noise from WW2 times. Due to Murray’s tenure being a short one, only two slides are necessary. It reveals information as well as including soundbites of both ambient sound and Murray chatting about his experiences in the army. This section will then lead on to the advertising tab, which is done through clicking the next arrow on the right of the screen. I felt it necessary to add Murray’s short advertising career within the IWE. This part includes a document on who he’s worked for, such as Mars and Opal Fruits. The sound to accompany this is adverts including his slogans, such as the Opal Fruits advert. There is only one slide within the advertising tab due to the short nature of his career. The next arrow takes you to the start of his commentating career. The 1950’s is when Murray started to go into commentary. Therefore I’ve chronicled his progression in this tab from his first days in the 50’s to him taking up BBC’s full time F1 coverage in 1978. The first page is about his beginnings and about how he got started. In terms of added content, there’s commentary from Walker himself (soundbite) as well as a biography on Max Robertson, one of Murray’s first real commentary partners. The 50’s section is chronicling Murray’s commentary beginnings, so I’ve mentioned all the key moments within his career as a BBC radio commentator. I’ve also included a clickable stats page for all the Isle of Man TT stats from 1960-1970. Also included is audio from Murray commentating to some key moments of the Isle of Man in the 60’s. With Formula One being the key part of Murray’s commentary career, I’ve found it only right to introduce it here. He was working for the BBC in 1978 when they claimed the rights to show F1 coverage. I’ve added a video link to some F1 action as commentated on by Murray. Also famous soundbites from the 70’s era, mutable by clicking the speaker at the bottom of the screen. The final 50’s slide reveals a little more about his future commentary partner James Hunt, as well as the race which brought Murray to a more international audience. Due to it being such a big moment in his life I felt it necessary to add it. I’ve also included video links to Murray’s commentating on the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix as well as a trailer for the movie Rush, which involved Hunt and his fight for the 1976 world title. I’ve introduced my 80’s section by mentioning the conditions in which Walker and Hunt had to commentate in. I’ve also added a link to a list of the fatalities within Formula One in the 1980’s, with the era being a dangerous one seeing stars such as Gilles Villeneuve die. Also in the corner is soundbites of some of Murray’s famous lines of commentary from the 80’s. With my next page I’ve decided to add a magic moment from Murray’s career. I’ve consulted his autobiography ‘Unless I’m Very Much Mistaken’ and found out he drove an F1 car in 1983. I’ve added this because it’s a key dream of every fan to drive one. I’ve added soundbites from the 80’s and unfortunately there wasn’t a video available of him driving the car or else there’d be a video link at the bottom of the page. For the final 80’s slide I’ve decided to compile some of the biggest moments from the 80’s and add video links to them, all including Murray’s commentary on it. The arrow will then lead into the 1990’s section of the IWE. The first 90’s page is dedicated to the ‘darkest weekend in Formula One.’ Murray was the one who had to broadcast to the BBC from Italy, Therefore I’ve included the video link from that night’s BBC broadcast, including Murray broadcasting live. An audio link to the commentary from the race in 1994 is included in the bottom right hand corner. Next I’ve decided to include a sentimental moment for Murray in Damon Hill’s title triumph. I’ve added a link to the audio from the final lap of his race as it is an immortal line in his commentating career. A big point in Murray’s career was the loss of his commentary partner James Hunt. I’ve therefore added a page to dedicate to him. There are links to his career stats as a driver as well as audio pieces from some famous lines Hunt said in commentary with Murray. This is the final page of the ‘story’ as it is. It ends as describing the move of F1 coverage from BBC to ITV. I’ve added video links to Murray’s final sign off in 2001 as well as the sound of F1 changing from Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain to a sample of Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman Turner Overdrive. Therefore I’ve included both intros within the soundbites. This tab is all about the three men he regularly shared the microphone with when commentating in F1. First is James Hunt, I’ve referred to Murray’s autobiography in order to get more detail about his and Hunt’s partnership. Audio links here include to samples of their commentating together. As James and Murray worked together for around 13 years, there was a lot of history between them. Therefore there’s more detail on him than on any other co-commentator. I’ve ended the quote from the previous page and added how the remark was out of Murray’s character, with him being one to see the best in them. The final Hunt slide mentions his death and who replaced him, giving the reader a sign of things to come. This naturally leads into the Palmer pages of the tab.