Project Devpment

We created page nine which is a moving animation of a bee. We also started to create page 5 which is the MINE page, page 7-our hide and seek page and also part of page 2. We used Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator. Also we tried the drag and drop ActionScript tutorial which worked better than last time but is still not quite right.

project work

yesterday we started experimenting with our project on flash and photoshop. we tried to create a wallpaper effect in photoshop and in flash we added sound to a button but couldn't get it to stop. we also experimented with moving mask.

Storyboard and Wireframe

Today we did a second draft of our storyboard and finalised the layout of the flash project with a wire-frame chart, which included the page links.

Interactive Storytelling

From reading Chris Crawford's book on interactive storytelling I found out some ideas that may prove useful in our project:

• 'Stories are presented in a linear form, but they are understood as a mesh of interrelated ideas, which is why they must be experienced in their entirety to make any sense'.

Thus we have choose a subject on Intertextual Narratives which contradicts the importance of the linear as we will create a project interlinked with different kinds of meanings so the linear is not a vital piece of the work.

Also he says:

• Interaction='engaging', 'immersive', 'participatory' , 'responsive' and 'reactive'. Users have to listen, think and sometimes speak.
• Interactivity depends on the choices availiable to the user.
• User should be able to make lots of decisions.
• It should assemble pieces into a complete story.

Libby's poetry parade

on this flash based website, http://www.libbyhathorn.com/lh/Emma/ ,they have short poems that have moving pictures that you can interact with. it is the kind of thing we would like to do for our website but with more pages and detail.