Design Narrative

Ade Kukoyi
Hoang Dang
Kimbely Davis

Design Narrative


Our project will be based on the narrative concept of “Jack and Jill went up the hill. It will be narrated from three different perspectives. From Jill and Jack perspective it will be in first person’s point of view. From the people’s perspective, it will be in third perspective. Lastly, from the Grandma storyteller, told in third perspective, where she tells the story back to kids and people.

The interface will be static with three main narrators or navigation buttons to choose from. These three buttons navigate the viewer to three different narrative experience of the same story. The first story will be from Jack and Jill perspective, clicking on their button will bring you to their story, told in first perspective. The button will be the people of Egypt, clicking on this button will bring you to the people perspective. The last button will be the Grandma, clicking on her will bring you to the grandma’s story from a neutral perspective. There will be interactive material within each story line at different level of the narrative. At the end of each scenario, there will be a button that returns the user back to the main interface.


People’s perspective

Script for Flash

The people are revolting against the king and queen.
The king and queen of Egypt, also known as Jack and Jill have embezzled the money of the country. They are corrupted officials.
The country is very poor and has no money; the kids and people are starving in the streets.
The country wants a new leader, so they can live a better life and have food to eat.
The people march to the castle and capture the king and queen.
They escaped and run for their lives.
The people chanted repeatedly, “down with their heads!!”
Jack and Jill runs up the hill.
The people captured Jack and Jill at the top of the hill.

Button option to choose between scenarios

Option 1
Capture Jack and Jill, release?
Release Jack and Jill country still suffers.

Option
Chop Jack and Jill head off, Jack and Jill head is chop off the guillotine and it rolls down the hill. The people are happy and cheering.


Grandma’s Perspective (Modified and adapted for children books)

Script for Flash

Once upon a time there lived a king and his lovely wife. They both rule over the land of Egypt, which was rich and blessed with all the precious things of life.

The king was so wealthy that he did not know what to do with all his riches.
One day he decided to build a mighty palace for his wife and himself. The ground will be paved with gold and all kind of precious stones and the entire footpath will be lined with beautiful flowers! he boosted.

At first, the people were so happy with him because they also have so much to eat and drink but they forgot to save part of their personal riches for the rainy day.

Regrettably, there was a great famine in the land and most of the people started starving to death. They expected the king to share part of his personal asset with the people in order to help the poor and needy.

Unfortunately, the king refuses to share his wealth to save his people. The people concluded that he was a wicked king that was not sensitive to the need of his people and they plotted to kill him and his entire family.

The rage was so great and the people skillfully planned a plot to get rid of the king. More so, all the king's advisers distanced themselves from him and rather supported the people in their plot to dethrone the king.

Although the king had so many riches that he could have shared his wealth with his people, he believed they could also have saved some of their own resources for the rainy day.

However, some of the people that saved part of their resources during the time of plenty agreed with the king’s hash decision mainly because they were also profiting from the situation by selling food to the poor at inconceivable prices.

The great division between the people and their king led to a civil unrest and anarchy in the state for many years.


Jack and Jill’s Perspective


Script for Flash

Jack and Jill were playing out and about in the enchanted forest (located in the heart of Egypt) without a care in the world. They twirl, twist, pick flowers for one another, and whisper sweet nothings tenderly into each another’s ear.
Gradually they find gold coins parched in the flowers that they have picked and become rich lovers who have obtained a lavish life.

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