Narrative Continues...

Interactive Narrative Project

My Place - idea

As this is the second month I live in Nottingham, there are only two places I spend the most of my time-University and My Home! Despite the fact I love it so much I've decided not to involve them in to this project.. This special "gift" I want to dedicate for my little spear time i spent in town center. LOL. There is a little pathway (between Victoria and broadmarsh center) where i go for shopping, walking, or just chilling…(it's the only space I know I won't lose;)..I enjoy it specially at evening time, because of shop's and house's lightening, the streets, people and places looks different than on day time. My idea is to make a playfull journey, there user follows "my pathway" and suddenly the day changes into night and back again (places might switch also). My aim is to confuse the viewer and make him smile than they realise they are in a wrong place..
I believe it will be quite problematic to take pictures on night time, but I hope with Help of PhotoShop I will create an effect I want ..

WWW.NADAVKANDER.COM

Last week I found this playful website, that I really like, because it gives you nice experience, and it's very easy to get around without having a screen full of menus. It's easy to go through artist works and it loodifferentent wioriginalnal music, exhibitions, galleries. I hope I can use some ideas of it on my own project too..

>>IMAGE MEANING<<

n' composition

...I was sitting near my PC and thinking what objects has a value to me in terms of both fine and applied (design)...My eyes were "running" through the things in my room, suddenly it stopped to the folding fan i have hanged on the wall that I use time from time to cool down LOL..For some reason I keep staring at it and the memories come back from the past, as my friend and me used to play a princess with her grandmother's folding fans... isn't true, everytime you have a chance to hold a folding fan somehow you feeling different, a bit special (as a princess maybe:)), it feels like a history is touching you...??

It's hard to believe that fan history took back thousand of years..

• Functionality .Personally i'm using fan for cooling and as my wall decoration. Also fan can be used as a ceremoniaentertainmentnt device, as a fashion accessory throughout the world from ancient times or a use for advertising.
• Fans history,functionality, intimacy, general look, shape, patterns, meanincolorsurs it all speaks about it's Aesthetic Beauty.
• Communication .From the sixteenth century the fan was used in fashionable society as a means of communication. Fan was used as a secret language between lovers...Both men and women carried fans and understood the different messages.
  Some of the most common are listed below.
  Placing your fan near your heart = I love you
  A half closed fan pressed to the lips = You may kiss me
  Touching the tip of the fan with a finger = I wish to speak to you
  Letting the fan rest on the right cheek = Yes
  Letting the fan rest on the left cheek = No
  Fanning slowly = I am married
  Fanning quickly = I am engaged
  Twirling the fan in the right hand = I love another
  Twirling the fan in the left hand = We are being watched
  To open a fan wide = Wait for me
  
• Decorative/entertainment value:
  Fans are still using in our days even is some of media: movies, theatres, photography, fashion etc...If you ever seen a movie "Memories of Geisha" you should remember Sayuri's (main heroin perfoming "Tachicata" dance with fans to entertain the guests. So it's always useful to have one folding fan at home, if not for decoration than for cooling or maybe for entertainment...
• http://www.victoriana.com/Fans/historyofthefan.html
• http://www.uoregon.edu/~hdulong/japan/geishahistory.htm

>>In My First Month<<

Well, October is going to the end !!!Amazing!!! Time is running soooo quick. Everyday is caring something new-studies are getting more intens:

"-Today we will speak about Java script", said mr.Perkins... and I'm thinking "-Who is Java?" it was just name for me an hour ago - not anymore though -now i know! JAVAscript - Island in HTML world! LOL


Here some good website allows you to play more with Javascript:)It gives some good examples. LOL tough thing! Speaking about tough things Narrative is on my way-Here i have some serious assignments:

• 2min linear story-sounds simple, it just another story, but then so many questions need to answer: what is the structure of the story? Classical?Hero?Conflict? How well balanced is the structure?Plot?Who is the main "hero" or maybe there isn't one? HELP!!! I've got my help - this is my team! We had a lot of thinking, had some ideas! Finally picked one (unfortunately not mine), fingers crossed we gonna embody it. Some more weeks to go..
• Interactive Narrative project "My Place": I still haven't got good understanding about this project, but i have start do some research. Digital storytelling may be use for a wide variety of purpose ranging from business communication and presentation, to personal expression to interactive narrative. Narrative is interactive when the story contours to the user, based on his/her own personal preferences and input. Bellow is some examples of Interactive Narrative website. First one is the personal interactive narrative website. The Thirteen year-old Mouchette gives users and opportunity on each page to share their impressions of the site. http://www.mouchette.org/
  Second one is an interactive animation "A story machine". It's a comic strip with a very annoying audio. http://www.abc.net.au/arts/strange/workshop/flash.htm
  I think one of the important aspects in this project will be understanding image processing. Analyzing and manipulating images with a computer, understanding it's digital features. Last week I've done my first work with Adobe Photoshop.7 (no.3 below) at R.Patel seminar. It was very interesting play with diferent pictures by changing images resolution and adding some other effects like colour, lightening and etc. You can change the original picture beyond recognition. Fantastic!!

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"Seeing comes before words.."(John Berger "Ways 3.of seeing")