Scene 1
Concept: Loss of someone that you love suddenly, without warning.
Environment: Castle, hills, gravestone, houses, ground, trees, sky
Animated: Bats flying, windmill spinning, clouds wiggling
Characters: King, stepmother, 11 princes, girl, 11 swans
Initial Character State: Outside of castle, king stands by gravestone.
EVENTS:
Text: “Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise.”
1. First scene animates in.
Text: “Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus for ever.”
2. Children come out of the castle, run to king.
Text: “Their father, who was king over all the land, married a wicked queen who was not at all kind to the poor children”
3. Stepmother walks outside of the castle to meet the king. King turns from grave and holds hands with her.
Text: “Fly out into the world and look after yourselves,” said the wicked queen; “you shall fly about like birds without voices.”
4. Stepmother looks up at the sky. Boys are changed into swans.
KNOCK:
First scene animates out. Intro text of second scene animates in.
The progress and development of my MFA thesis: an interactive Flash augmented reality work inspired by the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen.This interactive augmented-reality piece will explore the story of The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen from a personal perspective. Interaction in the form of page flips will trigger the next scene. Text will visually describe the narrative. The piece will be created in Flash, and its final form will be an installation. The interactive installation will focus on creating an experience in which it appears as if a book has come to life.
