Design your media
Now you have your theme, and your media, you can go about designing and
writing the interpretation.
The steps you take here will depend on the nature of the interpretation,
but it is a good idea to keep cross referencing with your theme, to ensure
that you are getting the message across.
It’s useful here to think about sequential and non-sequential interpretation.
Sequential Interpretation
In sequential interpretation, the interpreter always controls the order
in which the information is presented.
E.g. Guided walk, Slide show, television programme, trail
In this form of interpretation you can state the theme at the beginning
and the end, only at the end, or you could never actually mention the theme
but it is implicit- abundantly apparent throughout the work.
Non-sequential interpretation
In non-sequential interpretation then the interpreter does not control
the order in which information in presented. It is the visitor who has this
control.
E.g. Panel, leaflet, display, website.
Weather interpretation is sequential or non sequential has bearings on how
you approach your design. A visitor who has control of the information may
read only part of a panel, or website, or only look at the pictures etc.
Therefore in order to ensure the message gets across then a good way is
to make you theme implicit everywhere you can. E.g. on a well designed panel,
any pictures could support the theme and give the flavour of the theme to
the visitor, especially when combined with the heading and/or other pieces
of large text.