The Genre and storyline of our video

With our short film we had our own genre and this is real life because our video was real life and the viewer would experience everything we experienced in that day. The reason we wanted to do this is the way we wanted the viewer to see insight's into different people's life's not just one person.

Problem's with the project

Well we had a few hitches through the way one of them was we lost 2 group member's along the way because they left the course. Also on Flash there was some actionscript error's that kept coming up but we sorted them out before showing you today our interactive video.

The other problem we had in flash was linking the URL to youtube but that sorted itself out when we uploaded it to a server so it was a local script error, but we sorted that out as well.

The website through student eye's are on

This is the website where the journey begins you can view people's profile's and explore what people are up to, and view there video's. The website has come out as the drawing's showed and I like the effect, the only thing i would change next time is make the website fit the whole web browser.

Here is the website:http://cyanoxide.co.uk/film/

StoryBoard

This is a drawing of our storyboard, what we try to portray in the storyboard is we don't know what will occur in our filming but we break it down in three part's first breakfast, lunch and dinner, because these are important part's of a day, and then we said film other key thing's that you do through the day for example I walk to University so I filmed a little bit of me walking to University. So we took most of our inspiration from a life in a day which was on youtube. The reason there is not much story boarding for our project is the way we don't know what happens on a normal day because it is a big adventure.

This is our website page and it has link's linking to all of our profile's like you would link on Facebook but our Facebook is a little different when you go on Dale's page there are post's and you click on the post's, which link to the video's on youtube. And then in Youtube there are link's you can click on to see what other people are doing when you are doing something. I liked the idea of doing this because its different and it is like what would happen if you could post video's of what you are doing at that time.

Digital Storytelling Continued

When Browsing the Internet i found a PDF on 7 Things you should know about Digital Storytelling.
Number one was:
-Digital Storytelling is a practice of combining narrative with digital content included in this is:
Images, Sound and Video to create a short video.
-Our short film has all of the content in, but in the video we created we didn't want to edit it that much because we wanted our film to be original.

-Digital Stories can be Instructional, Persuasive, Historical and reflective.  
-Our Video feature's instructional part's because you have to press button's which is like a instruction. and in the part on the website where it say's write your post it Tell's you to go on the website.

-Storytelling can be effectively applied to almost anything.
-That's why are telling a story by follow our day.

-Constructing a narrative and communicating it effectively require the storyteller to think carefully about the topic and consider the audiences perspective.
 -We don't have much narrative because it's not a planned script.

-Group's of student's can collaborate on digital stories
- Our group collaborated on digital stories which is how we came up with the idea of following our-self around.


 

More on Interactive storytelling

Interactive storytelling was founded in the 1970s is a kind of game, where players become a protagonist or act in the footsteps of a character in a story, this makes the story become a piece of interactive media in real-time.
Interactive storytelling can be hard to create because it has to keep to it's genre without breaking any of the stock characteristics that the genre holds.
Interactive stories come in two forms, interactive storytelling and interactive fiction, these two are very distint. Interactive storytelling focuses on the drama involved, and interactive fiction usually focuses on puzzle type games.
A good example of a recent interactive story is LA Noire, this is a game that is due to come out in May on xbox and playstation 3, although it is a game this is the first video game ever to be shown at the Tribeca film festival as a 60 minute long film. The game will be based heavily on plot and film-noire elements.

Digital Storytelling technique's

I was researching into digital storytelling techniques and I came across Storytelling, on this website it talk's about the plot more than anything else and I learn't a few fact's.

These Fact's are:
-The plot is the course your story takes and the events that happen within it.
-Our Plot is to follow action's that we come across in a normal day.
-"But if you think of your life as a story, then each day is a new adventure"
-The quote off the website is true, so that's why our film doe's not have a real structure to it, it is just filming the most exciting thing you do everyday so i just carried my camera around everywhere and used it when needed.
-"We see people communicating plot all the time through social networks"
-This quote is true and that's why we have put Facebook into our design because every time you write a post, you are making a plot. 

There are loads of good tip's and hint's on the website but I pulled a few of the best the website is below:
http://gigaom.com/collaboration/use-storytelling-techniques-in-personal-branding-plot/