Layout ideas

Before I do the interview which I have planned for tomorrow, I need to decide how I want this to look so that I can make sure the audio is not going to feel like it has been thrown over the top of my design. I have come up with three ideas that will give all of the sections their own part making sure that the story is not too confusing and to show that between sections time has passed. 

My first idea is to have a photo album theme, with this I could have captions summarising photos to match the audio so they do not look out of place and also have the option to say either my Nan's age on the sections or the year so the viewer can see that time passes between each section. Here is a rough mock up of what this could look like.

My second idea is to have a table with scattered photos on it, this would work nicely as a main page and each photo works as a link to their relevant page. It would start as a large pile of over lapping photos and when you select the photo you want to see you click it and the other photos move outward leaving this photo in place and the camera zooms in giving you a page layout with your chosen photo, other photos, drawings and animations around it with a heading telling you which section you are on and text explaining the story. In this you would also have a back button to make the camera zoom back out and the photos to move back in so you end up back at the first page again. Here is a drawing of what the first page could look like.

My third layout idea is to have all of the events and sections on a timeline, this will work in a similar way to the second idea in that it is a main page which takes you to separate parts of the story as you please. However what this idea will do that the second didn't was build a strong structure to represent time and order to the sections of the story so the viewer will not come across my nan leaving St. Annes before she has even arrived there. Here is an idea of the sections that I have divided along a timeline. 

The key thing that I have learnt from all of my designs is that I need my audio to work as a story but to be clearly split between my sections so that when you start on section two it doesn't sound like it starts half way through a sentence but also doesn't repeat what you have already heard in section one. I will have to try and make this clear when interviewing my Nan.