Start by planning your mediascape to make sure it's does what you want it to. Look at the questions in the Planning Guide to help you decide what the mediascape will be about
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- What is it for?
- Who is it for?
- Where will it be?
- How are you trying to make people feel?
- What will make the mediascape play?
- What sort of content will you collect or make?
What is it for?
What do you want your mediascape to do? Is it for a special place?
Do you have a story to tell (fact or fiction) about that place?
Who is it for?
Is it for your friends, for your class, for your teachers or parents to use?
Can any age group use it? Is it for one person at a time, or a group of people going round together?
Are people sharing the PDAs? (this will mean they hear the same thing at the same time)
Where will it be?
Does it have to be in a specific place or could it be in any open space, like a playing field?
Do you want people to go to places in a particular order?
Do they have to follow a route, or can they walk around where they want?
Is the content talking about a particular landmark, or could it be anywhere?
How are you trying to make people feel?
Happy? Excited? Interested in what you think about this place?
This will affect what sort of sounds you create or use, and maybe what time of day you are sending them outside.
What if it is raining?
How can you use your sounds and images to change someone's mood?
What will make the mediascape play?
When using outdoors, will you have a GPSunit attached to the PDA to automatically trigger sounds and images?
Or, will people have to look at the screen and click on the areas of the map (known as regions) to make the sounds and images play?
What sort of content will you collect or make?
Will your mediascape have sounds and pictures or just sounds?
How long is it meant to last? Or is there no set time?
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