Design process

Design Process

Discovering

For this project the brief was to come up with a interactive narrative using Flash. I looked at many different interactive narratives while trying to come up with an idea, my first idea was a police line with a choice of who to shoot but I thought this was too simple and would get very boring very quickly. My second idea was making breakfast in the morning giving you a choice of what to make such as cereal, toast and pancakes. I then discarded this idea as well as there could be too many variables and could get very confusing and long. The best idea came to me when I was traveling to university. Because I live in Sutton it takes me about an hour to get to Nottingham and there are many different ways of getting there I thought this would be a good idea as it also relates to the course and agusting to student life.

Developing

So now I had an idea and I thought even with a simple idea like mine it could still get very complicated so I drew up a plan of how I was going to do this I started with a map of which slide would go to which depending on which button you press. I then planned out what text would be on each slide and a list of what photos needed to be taken

Defining

We were given a basic template for Flash and my tutor explained about being given a script and building on it to make something completely different, so this is what I did. I broke down the basics of the template and added my images, text and edited the scripted to make it match my narrative and go in the order I need for my piece.

Even with a plan this got very complicated but after trial and error with the scripted I finally finished. Nut after uploading it to Deviantart I realized a few spelling and grammar mistakes and had to go back and correct these errors.

Delivery

I haven’t had any feedback from my tutors yet but I have shown my parents and peers and have had very positive comments although they would be very bias. I am looking forward to the feedback from my lectures so I can develop further on this project and further projects.