Project 7: Roles

Our main objective for the day was to all agree on an ending as it keeps being modified with each day because of how important we find it is for the Player. It will show the meaning of our storyline and leave them with something to think about and maybe look further into after the experience. It also might change some of the other parts of the storyline and would be difficult to make a storyboard if it keeps changing. I looked at all possible endings and tried comparing and contrasting between them but in the end we went with similar ideas to our original ending. However it was changed by the way the player got to this end which was more determined with what they did throughout the experience rather then just the last few minutes. This caused for a more situational report on our behalf and some of the actors to monitor the Players actions. We also changed the ending to have a positive and negative impact depending on the player actions. This has made it simpler to create but more stress on us and the actors when playing.

A big development for the group was assigning roles. This allowed for each member to work on their own thing in their own time but to still keep in mind about communicating with the rest of the group about progress and any decision making since most of these roles correlate with each other. The roles are:

Marty - Script writer/Storyboard
Sam - Details and history of the city including headphone tour information
Ryan - Designer of posters, symbols, uniforms and email templates
Jenny - Actual recording of the headphone tour information
Naru - Intro video explaining the headphones and Conclusion videos

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Ryan also suggested watching a movie called 'Equilibrium' as it is very similar to our idea and might help with coming up with contributions to our work. I watched this later today while keeping comments and found the plots twists and turns very unique and surprising. Hopefully our experience can create a similar impact on the Player.

I also sought out to find some portable radios which I got at look sharp for $12 including headphones. Tomorrow I will look into seeing how they work with the transmitters.

References

1. Wimmer. K, Equilibrium, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, 2003.