Tuesday 23 February 2016

Week 3 - Creating a Story World

Today we spent the morning mapping out how our documentary is going to work, what features we're going to have, how the user will interact with it and which characters the user will meet along the way.

Our Mind Map

We have decided that our introduction video will be footage of a scrapbook being looked through with pictures of girls growing up alongside facts about life as a teenage girl. It will speed up until finally reaching a title page with a picture of a bedroom which when clicked on will lead to our interface.

Our interface will be a bedroom with various objects that users will be able to click on. When clicked on these objects will take the user to different topics, which could include facts, videos, interviews, audio, pictures, surveys and quizzes. 

In terms of interviews, we have been speaking to psychologists and a leader of a support group for teenage girls that helps with the pressures that teenage girls face. We will speak to these people about each topic so there is professional opinions and advice for every section. We also want to speak to teenage girls who have faced or are facing the issues so we can get an idea of how these girls actually feel and why they think these issues are a problem.

When we presented our ideas to the group we had varying feedback. They said we needed to make sure that we made it clear that it is specifically for girls and why this topic had been chosen as opposed to teenagers as a whole. To fix this we are going to include more female specific topics and broaden our relationships section by speaking to a teenage lesbian. They also questioned why we had no clear ending to our piece. We have not yet decided whether there will be a common end point once the user has interacted with all of the sections or whether we want to omit an ending altogether so that users can just come and find the information they need without having to access all sections.

We have now written all of our questions for our interviewees and aim to start filming tomorrow!

Overall it was a productive day and we are excited to get started!





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