Tuesday, 5 March 2013

D2

To achieve M3 I had to receive feedback from another student, as they would have suggested amendments that would improve my tour. Now that I have made the recommended changes to my tour, in this final document I have been asked to write a report on these amendments and how they have benefited me.

Firstly it was suggested that I should have incorporated more images into my virtual tour, (they also stated they wanted top see images of the teachers). After fulfilling this requirement I realized that it made my virtual tour more interesting and more appealing to look at, it became a huge benefit.Throughout my this unit I wanted the audience to have full interaction with my tour, as I originally designed and tried to create next/previous buttons, but Director would allow the function of moving forward and backwards through frames.  Dale suggested scrapping my original intentions and create a  Home button to restart the tour at any time, creating this button proved to be much easier and allows the audience to see the entire tour all over again if they so wished (my full interaction idea remained) also it Finally Dale pointed out that my videos didn't work and that became an issue to appreciate my tour, I realized that the videos had the incorrect file type, I made the correct adjustments to my videos and they now work effectively.  Doing this improved my virtual tour significantly, as the mistake was cleared up but my videos allowed the audience to see the end result and potential of what media can do.

Even though those amendments have vastly improved my tour, but there is still an improvement that I'd like to incorporate into my tour. I would have liked to have made multiple versions of my tour, for both the hard of hearing and the visually impaired. The opening screen would contain options to either enable the separate tours. For the hard of hearing audience I would have developed the tour to be more text based so that my audience could read all information without hesitation but I also realized that would be kinda boring, I thought of having a person capable of sign language inter-crated into my tour to narrate any videos that they couldn't hear, this so that the audience still get to see what going on but also know what being said.



For the visually impaired I would be required to replace all text based information into audio logs (maybe videos), because it will be difficult to see what media does, theses audio logs will have to sound entertaining and engaging to the listener, but also present them with enough information to know we're a professional establishment.



This image is from my documentary, where me and Cain discussing the disadvantage to video games. The use of audio would help benefit the visually impaired vastly.

2 comments:

  1. Great effort, you have described the benefits well.
    You need to expand on the hard of hearing and visually impaired versions. How could this be achieved. Find examples on line and printscreen them to show how other designers achieved that feature.

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