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Components:
Member Login. Must have a brown.edu or risd.edu email address. VIP Membership also
available for alums, Brown and RISD grads, community members. Goes through a screening so we know
what vip people are asking for membership.
Membership entails that you can create your own profile, where you can upload pdfs, youtube
videos, enter contact information, upload photos (headshots), reference personal websites and social
media. Maybe a little “about me”, concentration, graduating year, and like a “Favorite movie/tv show”
box. When creating your profile there’s a skill list and an interest list. You check off certain skills and
certain interests (as general as acting, lighting, audio, and producer to as specific as gaffer, best boy,
audio supervisor, etc.). When they check these boxes, we would then be able to email everyone who
has signed up for say “lighting” when an opportunity comes up for that. At the same time, a member of
btv should be able to easily search for people interested in writing a soundtrack. Either through a search
bar and they type in “soundtrack artists” or through an actual “Member Directory” page where they can
click on a link that says “soundtracks”. It would also be preferable, on something like a “soundtrack

4. page” to be able to put links to relevant departments and student groups on campus like the music
department and the folk songwriters group, etc.
The cool thing is that if we can alum and industry people to look at this, then they could actually
find actors and contact them directly online. Or at least, this serves as a semiprofessional hub for their
work where they can invite people to see their page.
Notes:
I imagine it being graphic-heavy. I want it to be dynamic and interactive. With a large flag at the
top, and a changing flag where several news stories can come up. As far as creating that for us, it should
be as easy for us as just creating a certain dimension image on photoshop and then uploading it
somehow to the coding. Basically, something where we wouldn’t need a developer to consult all the
time. Instructions that could be read in a manual of sorts.
I also imagine three main pages, tabbed. Station, Programming, and Production. The
programming page would be the page that people are directly linked to. It should feature, prominently,
the widescreen player, links to on demand footage, a programming schedule, a blog, and probably a
few other extra things like contests, events, or whatever. Also a link to the Brown TV Itunes, other Ivy tv
stations, and a countdown to our next release. Production would be graphic heavy, with a lot of photos
from productions, maybe the banner at the top now could have Production news instead of
programming news. It would have all the resources laid out. We have fivea areas of production student
can get involved with, then we have our services---videography and ad production.
Station would be similar. Every page should be able to host Vimeo videos and should have a
blog.
As far as colors, I encourage playing with orange hues, like this website:
http://www.matthewshepard.org/site/PageServer?pagename=MAIN_Matthews_Place_Home_Page
I like this design a lot. It’s busy, full, detailed, can fit a lot of content, and has a large graphic to
create a certain spaciousness.
And also, whatever webdesigner takes this job would need to submit some templates for review
in the first round, because we’re going to need to see what we’re going to get before he/she goes
through all that coding work.
It’s a big job, no joke. And if you couldn’t do it, perhaps you could tell me how much something
like this would go for so we can kind of see how much we’d want to raise to get all this done. Also, could
you let us know how much you could do for $300?

5. There also needs to be a lot of room for expansion on the website. Like, how easy is it to make a
new page off the template, add our own words, then place an image somewhere? Or create a black bar
for separation or something?
Almost more than anything someone who doesn’t know a thing about webcoding should be
able to, with relative ease or by following a set of instructions, accomplish basic tasks like uploading a
vimeo video, or adding an image, or just editing content on a page.
Chances are this is all very complicated. I know next to nil about the coding side of things, so anything to
enlighten me would be fantastic.
Btw the chart at the beginning of all of this was kinda whipped up today, informed by previous
versions, but it would need some reworking. The fact is I would want the sidebar to be thorough. Just
not sure what the best way to organize all the info is yet. If you’d like more info on BTV in general, check
out the website or ask me. Let me know your thoughts on all this.
Peace,
Roman