Create an original interactive story, or modernize a short story found on the Gutenberg Project by making it interactive. Attempt to create engaging experience for the viewer through the use of traditional design and animation principles, original graphics, use of a variety of perspectives (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and the modes of interactivity. This piece can be an expansion of your looping narratives, or diverge completely.
Benchmarks
- Brainstorm ideas.
- Outline the narrative using one of the three interactive plot structures: nodal, modulated or open.
- Create storyboards and a use-case scenario based on your chosen plot structure.
- Create assets based on your storyboards using Illustrator, Photoshop or other software.
- Animate assets based on storyboards and create scenes based on the narrative outline and use-case scenario using Dreamweaver, or scratch or even keynote.
- Add interactive elements and link scenes using HTML, CSS and jQuery or scratch
- Test, troubleshoot and refine.
Requirements:
- Documentation of Use-case scenario, storyboards and sketches must be handed in as a single PDF.
- Weekly progress reports that show: time tracking, notes on achievements (i.e. done with sketching, created x, y and z assets, animated scene 1, 2 and 3), issues that need help or attention. Email me your report before the beginning of class.
- Animations may be GIFS or sprites animated through CSS