It is now a week since I handed in my essay and project. I have gone through every emotion under the sun over it, from confusion to confidence and back to confusion; from blind panic to frantic research and back. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the feeling of dropping it all in the box and thinking s**t, can’t get it back now.
I feel reasonably confident about the next unit, especially having met up with my group, everyone seems quite engaged, especially Georgie, I am glad she is in my group. I don’t think I will really relax in to it until I hear back on how I did on the last one. I think it is just because it is my first stab ever at anything academic, I am not sure what is expected so can’t judge whether I have done it right or not. I bl**dy well hope that’s all it is, I can’t be doing with this sort of anxiety every 6 weeks!
I have started some research in to the next unit, narrative. I have tried to keep my research organised and concise and feel that after the last seminar, I have really grasped the basics, which is always a good place to start! I have been looking at similar projects on the web, for instance, I completely lost myself in Dreaming Methods last Friday. I really love the style of the graphics on that site. That is really the sort of thing I am aspiring to create over my time at uni. I am loving the hi-res guys work as well, especially the Donnie Darko site. Trying to navigate some of these sites however has taught me a lesson in usability, some of them although really pretty, are hard and frustrating to move around in. I have realised that there needs to be a good balance between graphic design and usability to create something that will really engage the viewer.
The brief for the next unit is to create a short interactive story based on a fairytale or folk story. We need to break down the basic structure of the narrative and then use that structure to create our own story. I am looking forward to it, I think it is a really interesting idea. My first thought for the base narrative was Rumpelstiltskin, mainly because the story has a good interactive element in trying to guess his name. I am meeting again with the group tomorrow so I am looking forward to hearing everyone else’s ideas. I will be doing some more research this afternoon so I can bring some more ideas to the meeting.
Anywho, I have to go to the dentist now, great, my absolute frickin favorite, sadists 
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Here are the links to my favorite interactive story sites so far:
http://www.dreamingmethods.com/
