Scene 5
Concept: Betrayal from someone you thought you could trust.
Environment: Daytime. Outdoor. Fire pyre on one corner of scene. Palace.
Animated: Fire
Characters: Girl, king, 11 swans, 11 brothers
Initial Character State: Girl and king stand apart.
EVENTS:
Text: “Every day she grew more and more attached to him, and longed to confide in him, tell him her sufferings; but dumb she must remain”
1. Wedding bells sound. King and girl stand together.
Text: “Day by day his face grew darker; Elise saw it but could not imagine what was the cause of it.”
2. Girl and king move apart.
Text: “Let her be consumed in the glowing flames!”
3. Girl moves to fire. Swans fly in and lands on shirts. Swans change to humans.
Text: “She hastily threw the eleven shirts over the swans, who were immediately transformed to eleven handsome princes”
4. Everyone moves together. End.
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.
