In the final week for preparation before our exhibition my group still had a lot to put together before our project was complete.

On Tuesday’s class we had the opportunity to see the space that our final exhibition will be presented. We took advantage of the class time to create the setting and put the finishing touches on our final project. This was extremely helpful as it enabled us to fully visualise our interactive game and give it a walkthrough as a group. Picking up any errors and things that we could quickly fix.

In terms of transmedia storytelling, “setting… (is) the most important aspect of a story’s structure” (Roccanti & Garland 2015). We have taken this completely on board and want the participants to not only participate in the game, but to fully immerse themselves in the story. In order to achieve this, we have contacted the prop department of the university and have organised some office furniture for the exhibition day. Allowing us to centralise the participants in the setting and in the story. So, they feel as though they are detectives working on a murder case in an office from the 1930’s.

Unfortunately for the second half of the week, in which we planned to test-runs with those outside of our group, Lauren fell sick. Of course, we didn’t expect her to come into class in that condition.  However, as she was the group member holding onto the physical objects for the interactive game, we were unable to proceed with the test-runs and are having to go into the project without that information. Although we are feeling confident in our final project, if there are any issues, we won’t be aware of them until the day of the exhibition.

 

References:

Roccanti, R. and Garland, K. (2015) ‘21st century narratives: Using transmedia storytelling in the language arts classroom’, Signal Journal, 38(1):16-20, accessed 27 May 2023. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Goering/publication/311288511_SIGNAL_Journal_381/links/5840ad4408ae2d21755f3c2f/SIGNAL-Journal-381.pdf#page=16