Productive day/Essay deadline!

Well this is going to be my last post before its deadline day.

Today in convergence media teamwork, we finalised our idea for the transmedia story we will be creating.

Its quite complex, and although it was quite confusing at times, diving into the story to far, it was actually really fun to develop.

So basically I think its better starting off backwards for me to explain.

~A Girl called Auora (the main character) is the daughter of the Girl in the Pearl Earring painting, and her father is Johannes Vermeer, the painter.

~To escape the life of being a child out of adultery, the mother sends the girl through one of the father’s paintings. Gives the girl a necklace with a symbol on as a keepsake, which will play a big part in the story.

~Child ends up in modern day, in a woman’s attic. The woman finds her, unaware of where she has come from and keeps the child out of pitty, but doesn’t know that the girl has come from the painting.

It then fast forwards and the grandmother has died, Auora is clearing out the attic and finds painting with the same symbol on the frame as the symbol on her necklace learns forward and the necklace connects with the symbol, transporting her.

* The symbol is also on her necklace that her grandmother gave her as child, family heirloom. Links to the symbol on the paintings frame.

* Thinks the necklace is a family heirloom, is actually given to her by the painter of the girl with the pearl earring (her)

And this is where we will begin creating the story

To begin We will create a website using WIX, and produce a video clip to introduce the audience to the story

* Starts with a detective placing missing posters around the city. Viral campaign to find this girl. Tweets asking if people have seen her/Shared posts on Facebook/News report. QR code on the poster gives you all the information.

* Starts on the website with a video of the girl in her attic, walking towards the painting, goes to touch it and then screen flashes white… Website then opens.

* Website is from the detective (like a wall about an investigation) He’s pinned it all on a site than an audience can explore.

* Starts to unravel the story of the girl after finding letters in the attic, written decades before. The letters are signed by the girl.

* Digging deeper finds a newspaper article, featuring a picture of the girl, the newspaper is from 1830 (pick a date and backstory).

* Facebook of the girl, her friends have been writing on her wall asking where she is/Tweets from the detective trying to understand what’s going on (tweets his confusion/frustration)

Here is some of the plot we need ot furtherly develop, and the characters:

Stumbling around the asylum trying to figure her surrounds out, she spots a man in a cell surrounded by paintings, hoping to figure out what is going on she approaches him, learning he is the painter of The Scream [Thought to be mad with his ramblings of a girl from the future, he knows the truth of the girls ability and explains to her why she is able to travel through the paintings]. Needing a way to leave the asylum the painter hands her Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait with a bandaged ear.

Transported to 1889 France she finds herself face to face with the man himself and discovers he does not have depression like believed, that story is in fact a cover up for the truth. Whilst showing her the painting of Liberty Leading the People a gunshot ripples through the painting, one destroys Van Gough’s ear – the other the fatal gunshot that kills him – not suicide.

I think we're going to have fun creating the story and the world inside it!

APPLIED MEDIA RESEARCH

Also, in relation to the Applied Media Report, I'm in quite a good place at the moment. Though i do leave things last minute. I don't have that much to do. I have all my research collected, and a detailed plan of what i need to include. I think its just the though of having to write the other half of it. Its a very time consuming process.

The Report and the research into the question has actually been a great experience for me.  I loved finding out whats available in terms of new content, and learning new things that exist, such as 'dual apps' 

I genuinely though i was all up to date with technology, but honestly the amount of things i've learnt a long the way is astonishing.

I just hope I've managed to make sense of all the research, as that's really may weak point... but hopefully I have done enough to get a decent mark!

Though I haven't enjoyed this year as much as the first, I think I've learnt more in relation to what the media is turning into and how its developing, and while its really exciting, its all very complex, but i can't wait to see what the future holds!