Thirteen Reasons Why is a book detailing the story of a boy who receives a series of tapes made by a peer of his who recently committed suicide. The peer who made the tapes did so in order to tell her story about the different people and events that eventually led up to her committing suicide. The boy in the story follows a marked map that leads him to various places around town where significant events happen. I thought it would be interesting to record audio of the tapes and make a map set in Pittsburgh rather than the fictional town the story exists in. That way, the tapes could be experienced in real time, adding an extra level of reality to the fictional story. Ideally I would be able to put the audio files and map on a website for listeners to use. I’ll be using both visual mediums (Photoshop, a website builder that has yet to be definitively determined) as well as audio (Audacity). I’m combining audio and, arguably, the concept of remix. I’m using different digital media components to take something that is fictional and in traditional print and making into to reality that takes a different (digital) form. Photoshop will be used to combine different visual media into a map. I decided to set the story in the Oakland area specifically as it’s very walkable, meaning it will be easy for listeners to go from place to place based on where the “tapes” direct. I have already begun trying to make a vague idea of what the map would look like, finding a map of Oakland, trying to make it look worn using layers and different Photoshop brushes and handwritten with certain fonts and vector images. Creating the audio should be relatively simple and not require an extensive amount of editing, primarily it will just be time consuming to take the time to record all of the audio that is needed.