Project Name: As I Was Going To St Ives
Skills: Adobe Flash, Photoshop
Project (Video Desktop Capture):
Background: This completed Adobe Flash artefact which I built for the purpose of assessment in my Interactive Web Content module, is based upon the children’s nursery rhyme ‘As I Was Going To St Ives’.
There were five stages of development which I went through in order to build my artefact and as soon as my tutor gave me my brief, which was to re-tell the story of ‘As I Was Going To St Ives’ using the medium of Flash, I went away and thought deeply before jumping straight in to the first design stage of devising a suitable strategy, a personal specification or criteria itinerary, which would give me a plan to check back upon to ensure a strong foundation for my artefact’s creation.
My original plans were very simple, I wanted to have two main sections; the first would take the user on a re-telling of the journey to St Ives through the experiences of the artefact’s main character, who I designed in my sketchbook, to resemble an explorer veteran, who was well spoken and travelled and the second would actually help the user work out the answer posed by the journey, namely ‘How many were going to St Ives?’.
I wanted the artefact to be fun and engaging to the user, so they could follow the nursery rhyme’s fairly linear narrative easily and piece together the rhyme’s main themes and context, but at the same time I wanted to mildly educate the person using my product; Rhymes.org.uk (a web link given to me by my tutor) describes ‘As I Was Going To St Ives’ as "a conundrum, now referred to as a logic problem in lateral thinking designed to improve the logic and deductive skills of children, and indeed, adults" and this is something I definitely tapped in to............................
You can continue reading my documentation by clicking on the link on the right-hand-side of this page, the documentation also contains actual screen-shots of my scrapbook and will give you a lot more solid background to understand my project in more context; you can play through my flash movie by clicking below.
