Working with Ecowatch, the BBC’s technical partner, this major project involved concepts, design and production of this BBC Northern Ireland website to support a primetime educational wildlife programme.

tallhatDesign provided the website and TV programme branding, helped plan the site content and structure and designed and developed the website along with its Flash games and competitions. The site was aimed primarily at 8-11 year olds so our primary goal was to engage and involve the web audience with a wide range of interactive content.

The website broke new ground with its live nest camera feeds which supplied both still images and video clips. Nest sensors also supplied real-time data such as temperature and humidity direct to the website, which we integrated into a live Flash display component.

The video feeds were used for the TV programme, but on the website the 24 hour feeds were firstly ‘software filtered’ (Ecowatch) to archive only those clips which contained significant movement. These clips were then human ‘rated’ to provide easy access to the “best” clips such as birds returning with prey, or chicks hatching.