Unit 2, week 2 – Blog

Hello Readers,

I am writing this post to update you on my work for the introduction to immersive storytelling unit.
Good news, after days that I spent reading random sci-fi short stories and studying about character arcs I decided to start brainstorming ideas for my short script and managed to write down a summary of my short story “Magic Banana”.

Morty, a young boy who usually spends his time traveling to intergalactic universes via a portal gun, with his grandad, Rick, is very frustrated that he will have to stop traveling until the COVID-19 intergalac-demia over. In his dream, he goes on an adventure to find the cure for COVID-19, soon to discover a different meaning in his domestic daily life.

My next steps are to become familiar with professional scripting software like ‘final draft’ and start adding details to my story.

Unit 1 week 2 – blog

Creative VR project portfolio update:

This week for this unit I worked on finalizing my concept for the vr experience. More specifically, the concept will be a 2020 version of an enchanted forest that encompasses all the range of different creatures in this meta-world. This means that it includes the lgbtq+ community of fairies and other fantastical creatures. Hence, I decided to map this world with connected pathways that if viewed from above (like a map) they recreate the acronym “LGBTQ+”.
Additionally, I came up with the basic tasks/functions/assets the experience will have.

  • The user will be navigating themselves via specific pathways. 
  • I have designed an initial draft of the map of the experience
  • The main actions in the experience that I have thought of as of this moment are walking through the pathways, cutting down leaves to open paths, ride unicorns, open a treasure chest, and throw rocks.
  • The lighting will be sunset nighttime
  • Terrain: enchanted forest: forest/trees, mud paths
  • Assets: avatar, unicorns, fairies, trolls, butterflies, bridge, water
  • (ask what do they mean by asset store)

My next steps are to figure out whether I will add secondary pathways and to establish a hierarchy with my core interactions.

CVRPP – Moodboard 1
CVRPP – Moodboard 2

See you next week