Friday, 12 December 2008

Interactive Narrative

Well basically my Interactive Narrative Project is done, but my Internet at my house is so bad i cant upload it onto deviantART.com so going to have to wait until tomorrow now and do it in the library!

At first when given the project brief i was struggling to think of any ideas for my project. I wanted to do something that i was interested in because i knew this would motivate me to make this project good. After scribbling down some ideas and looking at other peoples Flash projects on the Internet I decided to make a quiz style game in flash for my project. I wanted to think of something that kept the user involved and interacting with the movie. I thought by having a quiz format i would achieve this. I wanted a subject that i felt quite passionately about and was interested in, so i chose to base it on football and the English Premier League to be precise.

It was a long and painful process creating my flash movie. I had never used Flash before this and found it very complicated and confusing. The interface is similar to other Adobe programs and is full of different buttons and functions. At first it is very daunting and i didn't know where to start! However, once i started clicking and looking at different things i soon began to understand what different functions that it had and what could be achieved with the program. I watched many different tutorials through the NOW which i found extremely useful. The tutorials i watched were very detailed and showed the user how to do basically anything they wanted in the program.

I spent such a long time creating my interactive narrative. The main reason for this is that i was completely new to the program and had to do everything slowly. The smallest mistake or wrongly pressed button resulted in my movie being completely messed up and caused it to stop working on many different occasions. However, when i finally got the hang of it i started to enjoy using the program and the different things you could do with it.

i am quite please with the outcome of my project and think i have made quite a good Flash movie. I am now waiting to upload it onto the Internet via the library (thanks to my rubbish house Internet!).

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