This Task has helped me gain knowledge and visual presentation. What I have learnt can be used in professional roles in the media industry. This knowledge can easily be adapted by locations managers, looking for fresh locations to shoot on.
I chose to do this journey as it is a personal journey that I take on a regular basis and I would like to share it with the world. Smokers get a lot of slack from people. Why don’t people let them do what they want in peace? I dedicate this whole task to smokers and my grandfather’s who both lost there lives to cancer and smoking. I have a feeling I am going to exit in the same manner.
I knew from the start what I would like to be showing in my map. I done some spontaneous research and used personal experiences to find my locations and instantly take a picture with my phone. My locations were simple but to a person that smokes there are many factors that we need to take into account when we go out smoking. The route needs to be close by but not to short.
I had a Google account so I got started immediately on producing the map, I would come back and add photos and videos at a latter stage. The process is simple to grasp yet highly effective as it can be applied to many things. I drew lines from memory as I was familiar with my routes which meant I didn’t have to wait to go and take pictures first. I used the shape too to highlight some key locations in my map, this included the local Lloyds TSB bank. I also used place markers to show people these locations.
I used my current Youtube account to upload a video of my walk on a route, which I then embedded in to my map using HTML Code. It is very simple, just a matter of copy and paste. I had no problems to overcome. I finally embedded the map into WordPress which was also just a matter of copy and paste.
In conclusion, I found this task to be the simplest task out of the 3 we where set. I have used my current understanding of Google maps to create something that would reach a worldwide audience. However “weird” my idea is, I think it is an overall success as it does stick to the brief.
Critically Evaluated By
Abu Mukid
