Study Task 6 - Planning a Practical

I intend to visually and practically investigate: Interactive Storytelling 

In order to do this I will: 
Examine key aspects of existing interactive stories, such as choose-your-own-adventure books, visual novels and interactive video games, and then recreate a short story using these mediums.

Primary Research: 

• Create my own interactive stories and find out how effective they were by presenting them to a target audience and getting them to rate it/answer a questionnaire,
• Create a 4 panel comic with one blank panel and ask a target audience to fill it in,
• Create story panels in grayscale to put emphasis on lighting and composition.

Secondary Research:

• Look at screenshots of visual novels and video games presenting choices, compare techniques and replicate,
• Read interactive stories and play interactive video games, as case studies, to analyse techniques used to pace story, present choices and how the choices affect the narrative.

Media and Processes:

• Traditional: Textual story, interactive comics, storyboards that fold out,
• Digital: Visual novels, flash games, 4 panel comics - fill in the blank panels.

Context:

• Recreate existing textual stories into interactive stories using what-if scenarios.