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• Scenario
• Planning
• Keeping track
• 
• Storybook overview
• Gathering assets
• Proposal
• Detailed design

• The pages
• Animated finale
• Building it
• 
• eportfolio
• Review

DETAILED DESIGN

You must allow plenty of time for this stage. This is where you decide exactly what will go on each main story page, including multimedia assets. You must produce your designs before creating the product - designs produced afterwards are not worth any marks.

 

Write the script for your storybook. It must tell the story and describe what is happening at each stage - dialogue, what the characters are doing, etc. Without this you cannot plan your storyboards. You will need to think about what your animated endings will do but you can leave the design until later.

 

Decide what will happen on each page. This means splitting the story up into sensible chunks, one for each page, including the different routes that can be taken.

 

Produce a simple flowchart to show how the pages are linked and the pathways through the story.

 

Develop a set of detailed storyboards, one for each page. Each storyboard should be detailed enough to show clearly what the audience will see and experience. These can be produced digitally or hand-drawn and then scanned.

 

Remember that all the action should take place on the pages. This means that all the assets must be embedded and should not open in new windows.

 

Each storyboard should include:

• the part of the story this page tells
• background/scenery and layout
• navigation features and links
• font colours, styles and sizes
• description of assets needed such as images, sound effects, narration, music video, animation, etc.

Annotate your designs to help others understand your choices.

 

Make use of feedback from test users, including members of the target audience if possible.

 

Save your annotated designs (script, storyboards and flowchart) for your eportfolio.

 

Update your plan and project log.