Visual
Now that I’ve decided how I’m going to proceed with the audio, I’ve been thinking about how to visualise what is being heard.
I want to show how peoples lives overlap, so maybe a grid like representation, and if I go along with the script can show where each person was at a particular time, or see where their times crossed paths or their audio matched.
For instance if someone witnessed an event and they had to report it they could go to the police station at 10, and someone else who had seen it went at four, there’d be a dot perhaps on their grid to show when they went there and what they each saw and heard etc.
So i thought about a grid, a way that show their own network made up of time, space and audio to play out the day but from different points of views taken from different times, I just don’t quite know how it’ll work or what it will look like, so I’ve done a mock up of a grid system.
Each line will represent someone’s audio and the dots will show when their paths or times overlapped. (see image below)
I don’t think this type of visualization will work, as I will need more than a couple of people in order for it to look good, a grid made up of four would look more pathetic. Also each of those lines don’t show anything they’re just lines, and they can’t even properly interlink with one another either, the horiztonal lines cannot be linked to one another and neither can the vertical lines.
The image also doesn’t show anything important doesn’t represent what I’m trying to show in my piece.
The other option which is more likely to be the one I choose, it perhaps have each persons route tracked using google maps, and have a line showing where they were going with dots symbolising when they were at a particular place with the audio that goes along with them.
Perhaps where they were when they made the first voice mail, I also think it’s more likely to show how all of their routes were linked in someone despite being their at different times. (See image below)
I do prefer this style, you can see more clearly where one person has been, and how that links with the others, and the dots will show audio was recorded there, which will make it easier to identify the differences of each persons perspective when being in the same place even if it’s at different times.
