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During my graduation project I had the opportunity to realize my thesis for 6 months at client ‘De gemeente Vaals’.
My task during the project: To create a multimedia solution that tells the history of the municipality of Vaals to residents and tourists through storytelling.
A long process that allowed me to realize three concepts in cooperation with my college, the client and the corresponding target audience.
The first concept is focused on the residents of the municipality of Vaals, the podcast series: ‘De Jemèngde Vols Lit Van Zisj Hure’. A series of six episodes in which various inhabitants from the village centers Vaals, Lemiers and Vijlen tell stories about the history of the municipality of Vaals.
Here you will find a teaser with brief excerpts from several people in the congregation. Each person has his or her own story. An episode lasts an average of 30 minutes. The remaining episodes can be found on the YouTube channel.
Varying stories from their birth to stories from the present. Think about the second World War but also about club life, stories about student life and their own businesses in the town of Vaals. These and other people within the congregation preserve valuable stories whereby they are shared and preserved in this way.
While writing my thesis, I figured out to create something for every age in my target audience.
That’s how I came up with the collector’s album.
A classic sticker book with images from history as stickers. In my concept creation I used different themes such as: important persons, fairs, associations and events.
It is currently a concept but there are concrete plans to make it a reality in the future. In this concept, the stickers will be available through local business owners, this also to strengthen purchasing power.
The book also includes QR codes see more (digital) information about the particular sticker. For example, they also link to a podcast episode.
In this third and final concept, I am more focused on the target audience of children. The client’s wish is to get the tourists from the famous three country point towards the center of Vaals.
A short explanation of this interactive tour. As mentioned, the start is on top of the mountain of the three countries point and through the GPS coordinates the new interaction point can be found each time. Once on arrival, a QR code is visible. By scanning this QR code, the user will see a short animation. An animation of for example Von Clermont, one of the most important persons from Vaals. Immediately after this the user is challenged to solve a quiz, puzzle or game. After each successfully solved challenge, the user receives a reward in the sense of a puzzle piece. All these rewards together ultimately give the user a prize at the end of the tour.
After each successfully solved challenge, the user receives a reward in the sense of a puzzle piece. All these rewards together ultimately give the user a prize at the end of the tour. In this way, given their short attention span, children learn enough information about the history of the municipality of Vaals in a fun way.
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