Realization of audio guides for the "House of Leaves" museum - UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA

Creation of audio guides for the "House of Leaves" museum

This project involved the students of the Master of Science in Language and Intercultural Communication and Tourism, as well as those of the third year Bachelor, Language and Communication branch. This professional experience offered the students the realization of a product that comes out of the classic framework of university tasks and confronted them with the problems, conditions and responsibilities of a job in a professional framework.

At the university level, this project affirmed the support and involvement of students in projects and activities of cultural and tourist actors (such as museums, media) as well as the willingness of exchanges and collaborations with partners in the professional field.

The project developed several trainings:

  • Analysis of audio guide models, (training duration: 21 hours)
  • Image analysis, (training duration: 14 hours)
  • Oral expression training: techniques and exercises for oral communication (training duration: 15 hours)

 

The project was carried out in 3 phases:

  • November 2018: Presentation and implementation of the project: creation of working groups, first museum visit, identification of works to be commented on, first draft of the course; production of audio guide structure and distribution of work among students;
  • December 2018- February 2019: Documentation and written work by students; review of texts by scientific responsible and museum officials;
  • March – April 2019: Recording of parts of the audio guide in the studio by the students and the journalist of Radio Tirana International in French. Each student has taken responsibility for one or more parts of the audio guide, from conception to reading the texts, editing and final recording in collaboration with the project manager and the director of the museum.

 

As a result of the work done, the "House of Leaves" Museum has ready-to-use the complete audio guide in French, which can be used to independently accompany visitors.

 

The project stimulated the interest of the Embassy of Italy in Albania to support the Department of the Italian Language in the realization of audioguides in Italian, based on the work carried out by this project.

 

It has also served as a promoter and spreader of other activities carried out by students and lecturers of our faculty, where academic knowledge is combined with field experience.

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