Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Conceptualising the Narrative & Storyboarding Part 1


Our initial task in the conception for the narrative behind our product was to take the set text - The Spectre of Erigle Truagh, write it out in text order and then understand what the story order behind the text is.

We then made flowcharts such as shown left, to illustrate differernt ways we could make this into an interactive story:

We played with different structures of narrative and agreed on a "network" style narrative, a big influence on my thinking behind this structure was The 7 Sons interactive documentary by Florian Thalhofer (7 Sons). I felt its structure would work well with our story, which would essentially be composed of three interlinked stories based around the three central characters and an interlinking common event. We were drawn back to thinking of the Spectre narrative as essentially looping - without a beginning and an end

We followed this by creating storyboards for the main characters:

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