Since our last presentation, my group has accomplished several things. Firstly, we have just about uploaded all of Murray’s letters to our website. Once Murray has been completed, we can then upload the Slaughter letters. The StoryMapJS based on Murray’s letters is over halfway done and we were able to fix the zooming problem. Murray was actually more specific with his locations, other than just giving “Washington, D.C.” as a general area, than I originally thought, so it looks much better now. Secondly, we have our letters chosen for the audio recordings for both sets of letters. Matthew and Breck will be going this afternoon to get these completed. Thirdly, the introductory video has been started. Last class, Breck and I went through and chose clips from reenactment videos he had found. I then extracted the clips for our video. Also for the video, I have begun photoshopping the best images of Murray’s uniform as they have glare. I have never used Photoshop before, so another group member who is more familiar than I will likely have to make more tweaks. I also started a group Google doc so we can begin mapping out exactly what our video will include. We anticipate it will be 2-3 minutes long and will include general information about the Battle of Fredericksburg, Slaughter, and Murray. Fourthly, Kim has finished the home page website design, which looks wonderful.
