Flash
I’ve recorded the sound, peoples description and the background noise around them, I’ve uploaded that to the computer and edited it, now it’s time to visualize the data.
I kept with the idea of mapping their route on google maps and drawing their route out, but I thought having plain lines looked a bit dull, so I’ve changed it, just by adding one or two effects to it so the lines are luminescent, giving it a cool look, and how detailed their route is also effects the size of the line and the effect given.
So for one of the routes it was a small route but quite detailed so it’s thicker than the other lines, and one has a longer route but less detailed, so is thinner etc. (see below)
What I’m now going to do, is import these routes into Flash, and add motion tweens to them so that the line grows with the audio, as well as adding an interface so someone can play all of the clips, or one of them or two or only three or whatever, this makes it a bit more interactive.
I would like to keep with the idea of having spots to show when sound was recorded but unfortunately flash isn’t able to handle it too well, and instead makes it very big and very slow! I will just have to work with what I’ve got.
The audio still plays, and you can still see where peoples paths have interacted, and what’s going on around them which is what I wanted to show, how audio helps us to see what’s going on without having to be in the same space at the same time as the person.
