Planning and thought proses
Mind Map
Story bored
My 3 idea's
Idea 1
Candy buy a new game, its the last copy in Plymouth, I take it home invite my friends over to play it and suddenly it goes missing, Candy franticly looks the game after searching and accusing people of taking it Candy finds out that her mother has put it back for Christmas.
Idea 2
A rule was made by two best friends long ago.
Phibee falls in love with a boy they become close and things are going well for them, but then she starts having doubts and worries that the boy is using her and will mess her about, keeping to the rule she made many years ago with her best friend she gives the boy 72 hours to make a move and if he doesn't... GAME OVER.
Idea 3
Quick story idea –
Idea 1
Candy buy a new game, its the last copy in Plymouth, I take it home invite my friends over to play it and suddenly it goes missing, Candy franticly looks the game after searching and accusing people of taking it Candy finds out that her mother has put it back for Christmas.
Idea 2
A rule was made by two best friends long ago.
Phibee falls in love with a boy they become close and things are going well for them, but then she starts having doubts and worries that the boy is using her and will mess her about, keeping to the rule she made many years ago with her best friend she gives the boy 72 hours to make a move and if he doesn't... GAME OVER.
Idea 3
Quick story idea –
4 main characters –
Candy, Asurans, Chavreaper, Maxi.
Story line
A new fantastic game was brought for Candy, by her mother, it was the last copy in the whole of Plymouth. Candy returns home and invites her friend Chavreaper and Asurans over to play this new game, with excitement they both except. Asurans picks Chavreaper up straight away and arrives at Candy’s house moments later, they walk up the stairs and enter Candy’s room. The game is gone! Candy Chavreaper & Asurans follow the clues left behind by the perpetrator to find the thief and the game!
Story Narrative
act1
Candy and her mother Maxi go shopping in Plymouth City Centre, Candy spots a poster for a game she desperately wants to play in Game Shop window. Candy pleads with her mother to let her go into the shop. There is one copy of the game left, Candy picks up the game and shows her mum, her mother seems very uninterested but looks to keep Candy happy.
“We’ll have lunch then come back for it” Maxi Said
“But it’s the last copy and this is the only place in Plymouth that sell this game” replied Candy
“Fine, I will buy you the game” Maxi huffed
“Oh thank you, thank you!” Candy Squealed jumping up and down.
“Oh thank you, thank you!” Candy Squealed jumping up and down.
Candy returns home by bus with her mother, when she gets there she phones her friends, Chavreaper and Asurans to tell them the exiting news.
“I’ve got it” Candy said with excitement
“No way” Gasped Chavreaper
“Can we?” Asurans inquired
“Of course that’s why I’m phoning” Candy replied
“I’ll pick you up on the way, ok Chav?” Asurans said
“Sure thing, thanks mate” Chavreaper replied
“See you in a bit then guys” Candy said
“Don’t load it up till we get there!” Asurans insisted
“It’s still in its packaging” Candy assured him
The phone goes dead.
20 minutes later the doorbell rings.
Candy Runs down the stairs and opens the door.
Standing there is Chavreaper and Asurans, Candy let them in. Together the go up the stairs.
They enter Candy’s room, candy reaches into her bag… The Game is gone!
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In a panic Candy searches for the game tearing her room apart to find it, nothing. Candy comes to the quickly comes to the conclusion that someone has stolen the game but who.
Candy, Asurans & Chavreaper look at each other this is where there quest begins, Candy Stands on a chair and reaches to the back of the cupboard, she pulls out a box, inside the box is a magnifying glass, with this item Candy must become ‘Detective candy’ with the help of Asurans and Chavreaper to follow the clues left behind by the perpetrator to find out who has stolen the game. The first clue is a necklace that doesn’t belong to Candy, this clue makes Kerry, Candies older sister a suspect. The team searches for Kerry only to remember Kerry lives in London now. The return to the scene of the crime to look for more clues.
Candy, Asurans & Chavreaper look at each other this is where there quest begins, Candy Stands on a chair and reaches to the back of the cupboard, she pulls out a box, inside the box is a magnifying glass, with this item Candy must become ‘Detective candy’ with the help of Asurans and Chavreaper to follow the clues left behind by the perpetrator to find out who has stolen the game. The first clue is a necklace that doesn’t belong to Candy, this clue makes Kerry, Candies older sister a suspect. The team searches for Kerry only to remember Kerry lives in London now. The return to the scene of the crime to look for more clues.
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It’s no hope every lead seems to lead to a dead end what is the team going to do. Exhausted worn out and disappointed the team return back to Candy’s.
Maxi “ Whats wrong sweetie? ”
Candy “The game your brought me has been stolen, I’ve searched and searched for it all day but I can find it any where”
Maxi “Of course you can’t find it, I put it back for Christmas silly”
As my story is made from photo's I've taken and I will need real people to play the parts and i have struggled to do fine people will to do this; I have changed my story slightly so that I will have my project done by the deadline.
Instead of Candy finding clues and accusing people of taken the game, she will go on a rampage, ripping the house apart to find the game.
Maxi will walk in and have a fit for what candy has done to the house, candy will explain that she can not find the game, then maxi will tell candy she put it back for Christmas.
The Missing Zelda; My story.
Opening Scene.
for my Intro I Tweed My title text to move one to page.
I also made a button, this button is located on the character, the button links to the opening [next] scene.
Inspiration for opening music -
My story incorporated one of my Favourite games of all time [Zelda; The Ocarina Of Time]
My love for the game was my inspiration.
There are many theme tunes for the game for difference actions or events.
In the Game when opening a chest music sequence starts.
If you have not played the game the the music and sound effect through out my story may not make seance to you.
I shortened and changed the length of the music played in Adobe Audition.
Research for music.
Music to use when Candy arrives in town.
Thins music plays when you arrive in the area named Town that is why I think music would go well keeping in theme with my story.Link-
Music sound for when Candy is in shop looking for game.
If you have not played zelda the ocarina of time, This music plays when you are are in a shop and talking to the shop keeper.
Music to use for traveling to and from town.
This music play when you enter hyrule Field, the area you go to when you leave the starting are of the game to find the town and talk to the princess.I also thought I could use this music for travelling too but i decided agenced it as I prefur the more upbeat music, the music when talking to the owl Kaepora Gaebora use to frustrate me as you couldn't skip talking to him, so it would go on for ages and other people who have played the game will know this and might get the wrong impression for the scene.
Link -
Music to use when Candy has game in her hand.
This music in the game is when Link the main character has the master sword in his hands.Music to use when candy goes on a rampage to find game
This music plays when Link is in the battle with Ganondorf this music is good to epthasize the fact that Candy is not happy the game has gone and she is on a rampageThis music plays when Link is trying to escape from Ganon's castle I think this music would work a lot better then my first choice as it sounds like the music is on a count down and the intro would fit very well when Cany realises the game is missing.
Link-
Interactivity.
I created buttons in my story to go to then next scene I used a image of Navi the fairy for my button.
Using this script I used -
Using this script I used -
Button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToScene);
function fl_ClickToGoToScene(event:MouseEvent):void
{
MovieClip(this.root).gotoAndStop(1, "Scene2");
}
I found this script but researching on Google.
Input from lecturer
In my story I wanted to add to add a tween and effect so it made pages look as if they where turning.
Marny suggested a simpler way of changing the 'pages' by tweening the image to make it shrink and adding a blur filter, with another tween spinning it off stage.
Input from lecturer
In my story I wanted to add to add a tween and effect so it made pages look as if they where turning.
Marny suggested a simpler way of changing the 'pages' by tweening the image to make it shrink and adding a blur filter, with another tween spinning it off stage.
Beta testing.
Comments from Charlie:
Good use of interactivity.
Good use of sound. Sound suits what it is depicting.
First scene when 'click me' pops on the screen make it longer as if you take you attention away from the screen for a second you will miss it.
Comments from Jordan :
Its extreamly realistic,
I loved the use of sound effects aswell as the use of real images and that they have been edited to make them look even better.
These comments have been copied and pasted to my blog from note pad where they where wrote by who watched my story so far.
Taking these comments into consideration I will,
Make the 'click me' on Link longer, flash more then once or put in a roll over text explaining what to do.
Keep using the sound effect from Zelda (the game) through out my story.
Keep my images in the story from photographs I have taken myself.
Editing assets for my interactive story.
In my story i have used my own images.
I have traced the bitmap in flash to make the image vector based, this makes the image slightly cartoon like too.
I have manipulated images taking two image and merging them together by cropping this image-
For our final peace we created an interactive story, my story was about how I buy a game the game goes missing and then I find out that my mum has put it back for Christmas, this was based on a true story. We were asked to include the 3 act story narrative; I feel that my story has this. My story also includes interactivity as it has roll overs, buttons. We were also asked to use sound or background music, I used music from the game Zelda (the game my story is based around.) If I could do my story again I would of liked to of had music playing throughout my story rather than in specific scenes, I would of also likes to of tweened navi’s wings so it looks as if she was flying onto the stage (Navi is the fairy I used as my button.) I had a few problems with getting my images and I ended up having to take them on more than one occasion so “Candy’s” outfit changes 3 times in this story I would of liked to of taken the images on one day so that this didn’t happen. I also had to change my story slightly as I couldn’t get enough people to take images of.
