Melbourne DigiTours example tour – Ned Kelly
I hope that my final piece accurately displays the possibilities of mobile media in increasing accessibility to the city of Melbourne after a rough couple of years of being locked down due to covid-19, by gamifying something as simple as a historical tour, I hope that it allows people to see their phones as more than just a social media / communication tool and something that can be used to increase engagement due to the mass amounts of technological advancements we’ve had in mobile processing tools and the opportunities this presents.
If this was being presented at a festival, I would really like to showcase the interactivity that this app can have. In its current form, due to my limited design capabilities I’ve only been able to create a mock display of how this app would operate. By adding in either the desired augmented reality features or even show the app functioning as a touch based resource instead of a video utilising Google Map tools I think this could really appear visually appealing and represent the final image I was envisioning.
Over the semester, while this course had the opportunity to collaborate in the form of multiple people joining together to handle the assignments if their ideas aligned, I largely found that my idea was not similar enough to join with any other students. In saying this, as the final 3 assignments had us presenting our ongoing piece to the other students, I found this really useful to see what other classmates had done and use their ideas to further develop my own piece. For example, looking at other mock app ideas helped me to visualise how I could represent my idea in a photoshopped app form whereas I had previously just intended to display a video of how this could look. I was instead able to create an app overlay that I could place on top of my video to create a mock tutorial of how this app may look.