Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Interactive Narrative 'My Place'

Interactive Narrative
'My Place'
We've been asked to design an interactive narrative project called 'my place'.You will have to develope a conceptual design and take a series of digital photographs. You then have to pick your favourite place in Nottingham and photographs of your favourite place and once you have arrange the photographs ,using html image-maps and hypertext links and so through those links the viewer will be linked through 'my place', so they can interactive.
I watched 'Delicatessen' and thats were my idea came from. In the opening scene were you have to click on each of the items and then onced youve done that it will lead you into the appropriate link. So from that i evoloved my idea, i looked around for restaurants and i found a place called 'French Living' which fitted with my initial idea. I took some digital photographs around the shop from different perspectives and i then put them into photoshop changed to image sizes and edited down to the ones that i wanted.
I have learnt through out this interactive narrative, learnt alot of javascript which i have never learnt before and hopefully i will develop a concept of javascript. As i was working through my idea i found out that at the end there were missing pieces. I should of done a rough draft and then i could of got more photographs to lead the viewer through it. I thought 'my place' needs a few alterations to it i.e. put clues or hints of were to go and maybe more links and aswell.What i also wanted to was if the viewer went the wrong way they would have to start again and then start over again. Throught this project i have also been doing a storyboard, so that i can keep up with any of the alterations that i was planning on doing, and so that i knew what each of the images were called so that i can be organised. I incounted alot of technical problems one was not having the knowledge of javascript, but i feel like i gone passednot having the knowledge i have learnt from them.If i had another chance to do this project again i would of gone and got more digital photographs and thought about maybe doing a practise one and if there needed to be any alterations i could of fix them at an earlier stage.I thought the concept of my idea worked well having the digital photographs being colour which i found it to be more interesting in the way it was eye catching and it was a simple layout you didn't have to do alot. But in the case of not it being hard to figure out what to do the viewer might become bored.

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