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Here’s the video of the Air Disaster Memorial... As you can hear some weird shit goes down at the end... I heard a crunching of leaves, as if someone was standing there, and I thought a figure in the distance...

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Haunted Canberra: A Geo-Narrative Rationale

For my Networked Media Production Project, I chose to create a geo-narrative: A customised Google map, incorporating images and text to tell a story. I decided early on that my map should tell the story of Haunted Canberra: Inspired by Weird Canberra’s Ghost Tour, run by Tim the Yowie Man, and my deep-seated love and fascination with all things paranormal, I embarked on a photographic quest of all things haunted across our nation’s capital.

My technical process took up much of my time on this assignment: Though I could take HD photographs, I was unable to use any detailed light settings on my camera, as it is a poorly made camera, designed more for digital filming than photography. As such, I was forced to take photos carefully, deciding the right composition and timing to take them in order to get visible images. When constructing the HTML for the assignment, I posted the images I used to my Tumblr account, and used their subsequent URLs as the source for my HTML to embed the image. I discovered (to my brief grief) that when an image was posted on its own, the HTML (or perhaps Google Maps) could not locate it; however, when posted in a photo-set, the URL was perfectly usable.

When creating my HTML for the image and text boxes, I had to refresh myself on the tags and attributes for each item. Having learned the basics of HTML in high school, it quickly came back to me, both in classes and when working on my assignment. I felt the story I had to tell only needed the bare essentials of text and images, and thus did not create anything too complex for the HTML boxes. I feel as though what I did create, along with the story I composed, is enough to get the message across.

Culturally speaking, the ghost tour is significant to anyone with a thirst for adventure, interest in ghosts or tourists visiting Canberra to see the sights of our nation’s capital (or even those less adventurous types who live here and have never seen their own city…). The landmarks I visited and documented during the course of the assignment are culturally significant in their own individual ways, and are more so as a group, where they stand together to be part of the Weird Canberra Ghost Tour.

Though it remains firmly grounded in the traditional Canberra ghost landmarks, my geo-narrative is different in that it gives a geographic context to where each site is, and its relation to the others. This, along with the fact that it is online, for the public to view at no cost or hindrance, makes it readily accessible to a wider audience.

I feel that my geo-narrative, Haunted Canberra, is a succinct, yet broad overview of the numerous haunted sites Canberra has to offer its tourists and curious residents. The fact that it is presented online in a semi-interactive state allows it to be viewed by a wide audience and engaged with on a geographical level from the comfort of one’s own home; the perfect stepping stone to getting off the couch and taking the tour for real.

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