Location Based Narrative

For our third brief in Contemporary Media Issues we have to create a narrative using Google Maps. Normally narrative is linear and in the form of a book or an article, a very simple yet boring way to tell a story. Using Google Maps allows us to use a diverse number of tools to tell the story such as street view of the area, pictures, videos from YouTube, sound clips. Its allows a story to have more depth and engages the audience more.


The brief was to either create your own or retell a well know story and using the story link to at least 5 locations anywhere on the map. We were asked to work in groups and each group was given a starting location, Mine was the Albert Dock Pump House.



However the locations you chose had to link in some way to your starting location and so the first thing we did was research our location. There wasn't actually much information on the Pump House other than it is now a pub, but back when it was first built it was the first  hydraulic pump system added to a dock, meaning that the amount of water in the docks could be better controlled making it easier to unload and load ships. But knowing this didn't give us much to go on and so we starting thinking of other idea's and we thought of water based locations, due to the function of the docks and we came up with The London Eye, Niagara Falls, The Nile and the Amazon. After we'd thought of these places the came with the story of 'Fred the Alcoholic'