Interactive NarrativePart II

Claudia Grant Idat 203

Recap

• Different uses of narrative• How people like to be in charge• Developing my idea from Idat 204• Interactive Film, was a no no!

Moving on...

• Audio effect like Sugar Waters

Elephant

• College shooting• Dark• Make you experience the event

• Not Interactive

Mscape

• GPS and flash software• Narrative follows the path you take

• Problems• Not a writer• Don’t know any actors/actresses

Poems

• Express views• Different Narratives• Contrast: love and hate

Found two Poems

• Sonnet - John Clare• Patrolling Barnegat by Walt Whitman

• Both about Nature• Different views of it

Poem oneI love to see the summer beaming forthAnd white wool sack clouds sailing to the northI love to see the wild flowers come againAnd mare blobs stain with gold the meadow drainAnd water lillies whiten on the floodsWhere reed clumps rustle like a wind shook woodWhere from her hiding place the Moor Hen pushesAnd seeks her flag nest floating in bull rushesI like the willow leaning half way o'erThe clear deep lake to stand upon its shoreI love the hay grass when the flower head swingsTo summer winds and insects happy wingsThat sport about the meadow the bright dayAnd see bright beetles in the clear lake play

Poem twoWild, wild the storm, and the sea high runningSteady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering,On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,(That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,That savage trinity warily watching.

New idea

• Record two poems• Express their emotion• Stereo across headphones• Give different narratives• User decides which one to follow

With thanks...

• To Adam and Shemma• My camera• Sony Vegas

Have a listen

Blog

• http://www.claudnoir.wordpress.com

Conclusion

• Look into Mscape more• Learn how to write an intense narrative• Bigger scale• Include 3D sounds in a better way