I came to know about Coruscant Level 1313 from the Clone Wars series, season 7, episode 5, "Gone with a Trace". I was fascinated by the environment and how drastically different Level 1313 was from the rest of Star Wars Franchise. Level 1313 has this cyber tech feel to it as the slums. What inspired me to actually pick Level 1313 for the project was Trace's story and her perception of the Jedi order. Trace mentions in the episode that the Jedi Order forgot about them. From this statement, it aligns up exactly with our readings about the proletariat and their experience under colonial rule. Even though the Jedi Order were portrayed to be a light and the "good guys", by the conditions of Level 1313, the Order was not actually doing their job. Therefore, this digital archive was created to do Level 1313 some justice by shedding light on what life is like in Level 1313. Since the Star Wars franchise does not actually go into depth about what takes place here, I was able to determine from outside sources relevant to the time period what might have taken place. The digital archive is broken into three collections that focus on life, crime, and resistance. Using Trace's experience, I decided to provide different perspective that expressed disaproval for both the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Republic as this represents more appropriately the different experiences that residents of Level 1313 compared to upper levels of Coruscant.
I used outside resources to create the document by either using them as a guide, a source of information, or to modify into my documents. I used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create the actual documents. Picture and symbols that can be seen in the documents were altered found online and therefore altered.
Here are the resources I used for information:
1. “Appendix: Sample Annotated Finding Aid | Society of American Archivists.” n.d. Www2.Archivists.org. https://www2.archivists.org/usingarchives/appendix.
2. “Death Star.” 2018a. Wookieepedia. 2018. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Star.
3. GamesRadar. 2021a. “Star Wars Timeline: Every Major Event in Chronological Order,” November 3, 2021. https://www.gamesradar.com/star-wars-timeline/.
4. “Words and Phrases Star Wars Gave Us.” n.d. Www.yourdictionary.com. Accessed September 16, 2023. https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/star-wars-words.
Ja'Toria Johnson (Creator of the Digital Archive)