Word of PlyMouth- Module 116

This is my First online blogging project for module 116.

Our aim is to produce a fully working, interactive website based on a place in Plymouth.

Our deadline: Thursday 31st March.

Ideas:

Me and my group met up this week and spoke about possible ideas,

and this is what we got!

1. The Hoe
2. The Barbican
3. Big-bury beach
4. Plym-Bridge woods
5. Places to eat in Plymouth specializing in one place
6. Civic Centre
7. Jenny Cliff
8. Crownhill

After much deliberation and frustration we decided that the Barbican would be the best place to look into. We thought about it's pros and cons of using it as a place to base our website on:

Pros:

• It has a new/old part
• Lots of places to eat/see
• Lots of things to do, e.g the Aquarium, the antiques museum they have, boat tours, sailing and diving, swimming.
• Right by the seafront
• tourist place to visit
• History
• Place for old and young people
• Something for everyone
• Night life

Cons:

• A vast place
• Gets busy

We decided that the Barbican was a perfect place to feature our website on.

Development of Idea:

Thinking the project through, we came up with a good idea, to involve the public and get an honest opinion of the place from the people of Plymouth. Our idea was to ask ONE question PER PERSON and film it, in a particular place on the Barbican, for example, on the mayflower steps or next to "The Big Carpe" which is one of the Barbican's main domineering features. We would ask them questions such as, Where's your favorite place to eat on the Barbican?, Where do you like to drink? Have you ever been to the Aquarium, if so what was it like?

I think it's important to be able to get the views of the people of Plymouth as to what they think of the place and where they like to on a day out, this makes it seem more real and inviting to tourists who may have never been to the Barbican before. It could also just inform those who already live in Plymouth of a good place to eat where they may have never tried before.

The Idea for the website is to create the questions and ask a handful of people, videoing them in an informal interview stlye, these will then be uploaded and imported to our website on to a grid. There will be categories also for example:

Food, Drinks, Activities, Night Life, Photographs etc.

There will also be useful links to websites which are mentioned in the videos, so people on the site can access them to find out more information if they are interested.

The NAME of our website is going to look like this:

Word of

PlyMouth

A play on the words of "Word of mouth" as it's literally like having a conversation with a local, which I think gives it a nice friendly touch.

A prototype of the website has taken place, using the software, Dreamwever. However, it is still early days and our next step is to rent out a camera and find out spot on the Barbican. Take some photographs of its surroundings, and think up the questions we will be asking the public....