Video Stills from Norman Conquest

Interactive Narrative: Theory and Practice

| Syllabus | Readings | Project Assignments | 21w765j / 21L489 (U); 21L989 (G)

Norman Conquest Navigation Exercises

1. Changing Attributes of a Table

Download the student map of the Norman Chronicles from the web, and load the page into Claris Home Page. http://web.mit.edu/21w765j/Spring_97/StudentWork_SP97/NormanChron/AandP/timeline.html

Select the Table and examine its attributes.

Use textured backgrounds instead of color to indicate the three different areas.

Change the color of text to allow the interactor to navigate by following one of the characters, like Norman or Annie, from room to room or scene to scene.

Alternately, use color to indicate moments when the same device (such as "enter laughing" is used to pique curiosity about what is going on in other rooms.)

2. Image Map as Navigation Bar

Use links to video stills below to select appropriate stills and combine them in Photoshop to make an image map. Add links in Claris Home Page. How would you indicate which links are active? which is current location?

Alternately, you could draw a floor plan in Illustrator to use as a navigational image map.

3. Animated Gif / Rollover

Use links to video stills below to select appropriate stills for an animated gif which arouses the interactor's curiosity. Or use them to make a peek-a-boo rollover that changes a blank image for a picture of what is happening in the room, inviting you to click and go there.