Two week delay in getting my survey out but I’ve got it finalised and it’s ready to go. I’m hoping to utilise friends and family as willing participants but might also put it out on fb just in case I don’t get enough responses, it might also broaden the scope of thinking and responses.
It’s been suggested my final piece to be created in Animate, so I’m in the midst of following a few tutorials and getting the detour narrative structure sorted. Although the nature and content of my survey is more ‘grown up’ using Bear 71 as my viewing piece, I’ve decided to create a more family friendly piece for my final product, focusing on an adaption of my favourite children’s book, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I’ll retain the original story as one of the storylines, and will provide 2 alternative detours from the the backbone along with an alternative ending. I’m looking at also re-creating the simple (but beautiful!) style of the artwork to allow more interactive elements in the final piece.
Another added source I found over the semester break was an article that adds to user interactivity in narratives. An article which tells of a network partnership which allows fans of Tales from the Crypt series to help write episodes by uploading their own material in the hope it will feature as a future episode.
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Additional post for week 4 – 26th August 2016
I’ve finally released my survey out into the wild, and am eagerly checking the surveymonkey link to see how many responses I have received. Out of the 35 or so emails I sent it out to, plus the extra people who decided to share the email to others, I have so far received 7 responses after my first day. Here’s hoping more will arrive over the weekend. So far I was surprised to read that quite a few people still prefer the traditional passive viewing, giving reasons that the interactive mode can be quite distractive, and that it “took away from the story”. Perhaps the interactive feature isn’t as popular as I originally thought? Will be interested to see how this progresses. This may simplify my detour narrative structure a little, but nevertheless, I must make a start on creating it.