Project Name: Title to be determined
Project Owner: Emma Lewis
Project Summary: My goal in this project is to create a choose-your-own adventure audio tour of the streets of Gettysburg. The tour will not follow one linear path, nor will it need to be listened to in order. The tour will be comprised of different aspects that users can navigate the streets by. The aspects will frame the history of Gettysburg in different ways in an attempt to connect personally to listeners. There will also be a Children’s section to frame history in a way that will engage children with the stories of Gettysburg. I want to make this accessible for all, from history buffs to passersby. In order to do this, each aspect will have a different level of information to accommodate different levels of background knowledge. My goal is to connect with listeners on their terms.
For the summer, I will focus on a single street in Gettysburg. This will give me a more manageable goal to work towards in the time frame I have. I have chosen Baltimore Street as the first street I will work on. I have previous research on this street, and plan to use it to augment this tour. At the end of the summer, my goal is to build a website to house an interactive map to navigate this tour by. The map will be able to locate users’ positions if they want to and point them to interesting sites. I will embed audio files in this map to take the tour by. This is the plan, and I will investigate digital tools to figure out how I can make this a reality.
Deliverables:
- Previous Research
- FYS Audio Tour Project
- Research- Special Collections, ACHS
- Digital Tools- Mapping, Audio embedding
- Audio equipment
Timeline:
Week 1:
- Get Situated
- Start working with digital tools
Week 2:
- Investigate site formats
- Contact possible interviewees
- Research
Week 3:
- Research
- Possibility-schedule interviews
Week 4:
- Research
- Start mapping site
Week 5:
- Research
Week 6:
- Write up current research
- Done with interviews- if possible
Week 7:
- Research
- Workshop stories
Week 8:
- Work on site
- Done with writing
- Record Audio
Week 9:
- Revise Research
- Work on site
Week 10:
- Final Tweaking
Future Plans: I hope to continue to expand on this in the future. I do not want it to be a closed, private platform that only I have access to. Digital Humanities flourish on collaboration. I hope to take it as far as I can, researching and using public outreach to compile more stories.
