IDAT210 - Project tweeks

Once the body of the project had been devised and created the next step was to make sure all eventualities were covered in terms of how the project functions.  In particular this covered two likely problems, words longer than 12 characters, and enough posts to run the visualisation over the stage width.  To make sure these possibilities were covered I made two simple solutions.  In terms of the characters issue I had already decided that only 12 notes were going to be included and so either I ignored words over this length, or continued to represent them visually but miss them in the audio.  I therefore decided that the best method was to keep the word in the visuals by representing any word above 12 characters with another circle so that the visuals are as accurate as possible to the data, and so people wont get too confused.  This is shown below:

In terms of the other issue regarding more circles than the stage width I decided to keep with the notation theme and simply continue the following visualisation on a new blank page, as if the page has been turned to the next page of the score. This is shown below:

This will ensure that the viewer of the project will be able to see the entire visualisation of the entire audio track rather than just a part, quickly and easily. 

Another aspect that I decided to add to my project was small breaks in the audio between comments. Originally my audio was one long continuous string of sound.  However being that my project is based around the idea of communication I felt that I should somehow demonstrate this through the audio that is created.  I therefore added in breaks between the comments like rests in a piece of music to emphasise the different comments, and also to give a sense of some kind of communication between the different sections of music, almost as if they are responding to each other.  This mimics the communication had through the comments themselves and is also a standard concept in music composition so continues the link between the project and music.