2009
FEATURED WORK

AIDC

Freerange was engaged by Orbit Design and the AIDC team led by Joost den Hartog for what would become our most complex and ambitious project to date.

Not one website, but four – all for the annual Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC). Our growing team of developers, led by Luke, Yuri and Abdul, built this complex network of sites built with Ruby on Rails and a custom video pipeline. The platform ran for four successful years, enabling a digital conference space that was genuinely innovative and brought people together in ways that weren’t really being done at the time.

A network of sites

AIDC

AIDC was the conference site itself – the program, speakers, ticketing and event information.

DocExchange was a social network for conference attendees before, during and after the event. Their own private LinkedIn, purpose-built for the documentary community.

Screening Room was an invite-only private YouTube where attendees could upload their films and invite potential buyers and industry leaders at the conference to view them online. For filmmakers trying to get their work in front of the right people, this was a game-changer.

F4 was a hybrid film festival documentary filmmakers could submit their work for competition and they were available for attendees to view online – then winners were screened at the Mercury Cinema.

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Regional Centre of Culture

Port Augusta Reimagines

Port Augusta was South Australia’s Regional Centre of Culture in 2008 – a year full of arts, events and cultural enrichment. At the start of 2009, Country Arts SA asked us to create a website that could celebrate the breadth and energy of that year.

Dozens of stories, hundreds of images and videos, warm reflections from the people of Port Augusta.

This was a milestone for Freerange. It was the first richly animated, interactive project that we created in JavaScript instead of Flash. And we designed and built it entirely in house, as we started to evolve beyond just doing outsourced work for other agencies. Great job, Tyi and Tanja.

The site is no longer online, but sixteen years later we dusted it off, opened it in a browser and it worked perfectly. Yay web standards. Except for the audio. Which was still powered by Flash.

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