An Audience of One: Building an Interactive Narrative Experience for Mobile Devices

by Andrew Forbes

OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
April, 2014

In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Digital Futures

(c) John Andrew Forbes, 2014
forbesfilm@gmail.com

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AUDIENCE OF ONE PRODUCTION MATERIALS

Please find enclosed in the /AofOne_ProductionMaterials/ folder the pre-production elements for the video component of An Audience of One, including: 

a) AofOne_SCRIPT.pdf: the production draft of the script for the project.

b) AofOne_BREAKDOWN.pdf: the complete script breakdown which provided logistical co-ordination for the shooting component of the project. 

c) AppFinalLayout.png: This is the ‘key’ to the labyrinth interface which selects the videos which will be sequenced during the screening of the project.

d) AppLogicLayout.pdf:	This is a logic path demonstrating the inputs and their resulting placement within the structure of the video component of the project. 

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ÉTUDE No.1: jQuery

Please find enclosed in the /Étude_01-jQuery/ folder the .html files which were the initial results of my first test with overlaying images. 

a) Étude01a-ImageMatchOverlay.html: This test was to determine the basic function of image zoom. Images by the author. 

b) Étude01b_gifOverlay.html: This test was to determine the functionality of using .gif image sequences within the overlay framework. Image by Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg, accessed July 14, 2013 at  http://www.beautifullife.info/art-works/newest-cinemagraphs-by-jamie-beck-and-kevin-burg/)

c) Étude01c_DisparateImageOverlay.html: This test was to explore the relationship between two disparate images as overlays. Images by the author. 

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ÉTUDE No. 2: Video Overlay

InteractiveVideoOverlatInterface_MockUp.mov is an animated test using footage from the Blessing (Shira Newman, dir., 2011). The footage used is presented on its own (‘Background Footage’ and ‘Overlay Footage’) then combined. 

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VIDEO

Please find enclosed in the /Video/ folder two of the possible variations of An Audience of One. The app itself is unfinished, and as such is not available for distribution on this DVD, but these are two of the possible 405 discrete presentations of the film.