My Interactive Story - Week 5B

As I mentioned in my previous post, in interactive films or documentaries the viewer engages emotionally and mentally with the story. That was one of the goals of task 2.  What we had to do was, choose one of the interactive structures and apply it to a fairytale or some sort of story of our choice, by using twine.

Structure 

In order to manage to create my altered fairytale, I had to think of a structure. Out of all the types of structures that we were introduced (Tradition Dramatic Structure, the IF/THEN), the one that would go best for the story I was going for, was the IF/THEN structure. 

 

As Charlie said, the tree branching might get out of control so I tried to keep it as simple as possible. 

The Story 

The story that I chose for this task was the Little Red Riding Hood. It is a story that everybody knows and a story that I thought would be nice to have some alternatives. I took the version of the Grimms' brothers but I still kept it as The Little Red Riding Hood.

The story starts by introducing the girl and why she is called like that. Then she is presented with a mission: to go see her sick grandmother and give her some goods. As she is going to the woods, she meets the big bad wolf and asks her where she is going. That's the part where the reader is introduced with the first dilemma: should she reveal where she is going or not?

If the reader chose to do so, then she will later head to the woods to gather some flowers but if she doesn't she is going to go to her Grandmother's house safe and sound - sort of.

If she goes to the woods, then she will see the Hunstman. That's where the second dilemma appears, should she talk to the Huntsman or not?

If she does talk to him she will find out that he is hunting the wolf and that he is dangerous. Then should Red Riding hood with him or should she go alone?

If she goes with him, they will be able to safe her grandmother from the wolf's belly before it's too late.

If she goes alone, she will handle the wolf by herself and then she will find the Huntsman again to help her.

But if she had avoided the Huntsman in the woods? What would have happened then?

The story goes on like that, but I tried to keep it as minimal as possible.

Here is the link for the full transcript: Little Red Riding Hood
And the actual Project: Red Riding Hood

Reflection

Doing this project was really fun and engaging. We were given the ability to take a story and create as many alternatives as we want, change the story and generally just free our imagination. However, I feel like I didn't try hard enough with the task and I didn't take advantage of all the creative freedom that we were given. The reason for that, now that I look back at it, is the fact that as much fun as it was, it was equally as frustrating. I didn't know then and I still don't know if the alternatives that I thought of were enough for the task and I would prefer if we had a bit more guidance on that part. I certainly learned a lot from the exercise, how to take a story and break it to piece and slowly create different ways to piece it back together but all depending on the reader. If I do something like that again, I will try harder to make more choices for the readers or audience, depending on the form of media, and I will definitely try to make it more interesting, engaging and fun!

Thank you for reading! See you on the next post:)