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SCRIPT AND NARRATIVE

20TH MARCH: FULL POINT STORY OUTLINE

27TH MARCH: FIRST ROUGH DRAFT

31ST MAR - 6TH APRIL: DCMP FOCUSED WEEK | PRE PRO FOR FILMING

3RD APRIL: SECOND DRAFT

9TH APRIL: FINAL DRAFT + ROUGH POINTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

10TH APRIL WEEK: FILMING WEEK?

16TH APRIL: FINISH WRITING ADDITIONAL INFO PIECES (newspaper articles, emails etc)

18TH APRIL: MEDIA REP ESSAY DUE-KILL ME NOW!

20TH APRIL: FINISH WEBSITE CONTENT

**APP PROGRAMMING (major priority )

20TH MARCH: FIRST DRAFT OF EVERY APP MAP (map of all app screens that we can go to)

31ST MARCH?: FIRST PROTOTYPE (stills of each possible screen + messaging animations?)

6TH APRIL: INCLUDE IN PLACEHOLDER EARLY DESIGNS GRAPHICS VIDEOS

13TH APRIL: SOLVE NOTIFICATIONS ISSUE?

15TH APRIL: TEST RUNNING THE APP, WITH SECOND/FINAL SCRIPT

20TH APRIL: BUG FIXING / BETA TESTING

25TH APRIL: SETTLE ALL FINAL GRAPHICS AND VIDEOS

2ND/3RD MAY: FINISH BUG FIXING ROUND 2

WEBSITE CODING

20TH MARCH: SETTLE WEB MAP (map of all web pages that the site can go to)

9TH APRIL: FINISH MAIN LOOK OF SITE AND HOME PAGE + CHAT BOX

16TH APRIL: FINISH CREATING AND LINKING OF ALL PAGES (ROUGH DESIGN + ROUGH GRAPHICS)

20TH APRIL: HAVE A PROPER DOMAIN (ASK CHRIS)

23RD APRIL: THROW IN ALL WEBSITE AND ADDITIONAL CONTENT

25TH APRIL: SETTLE ALL FINAL GRAPHICS AND VIDEOS

2ND MAY: FIX ALL BUGS

GRAPHICS

20TH MARCH: LOGO AND HOSTEL GRAPHICS PROTOTYPES

31ST MARCH: FIRST DRAFT GRAPHICS FOR APP

6TH APRIL: PUT F.D GRAPHICS INTO APP AND WEBSITE

13TH APRIL: SECOND DRAFT GRAPHICS

24TH APRIL: FINAL DRAFT GRAPHICS

FOOTAGES

10TH - 15TH APRIL WEEK: FILMING WEEK?

20TH APRIL: FIRST CUTS OF CLIPS

Today we had a group tutorial with everyone to help one another with bouncing suggestions and feedback which was great help. While we were updating everyone on our progress, we had a few suggestions and discussion, once more if there was anyway to up the motivation to help Red. We all talked about submitting it a day before the crit day as well in order to give people time to play it.

One brought up that there was a suicide hotline game that is similar and we should look into it, called ‘Don’t take this risk’ in order to see how they handled the script and code.

1. Mexico 2. India 3. Nigeria 4. Pakistan 5. Venezuela 6. Lebanon 7. Philippines 8. Afghanistan 9. Colombia 10. Iraq 11. Syria 12. Guatemala 13. Yemen 14. Libya 15. Egypt 16. Brazil 16. Kenya (tied) 18. Nepal 19. Malaysia 19. South Africa (tied)

(link) Business Insider reported this list according to RiskMap 2014, and we could narrow down the countries we could set the story in.

Looking at RiskMap, Phlippines have 150 kidnappings reported in 2013.

Profile Discussion 11th March

we got together after the pitch in order to talk things through and figure out the game plan on what we can do next. We started discussing about solidifying the story and characters in order to move forward with any other part of the project.

We talked about where we could set it in around Asia, and we landed with perhaps Taiwan, Thailand (Phuket), Indonesia (Bali), places that tourism is booming. While our main character is going to be the person you are helping / saving, we need a “big bad wolf” over seeing everything, the culprit of who took who and is holding her hostage, what is their motive, what humanises them, etc etc.

We also talked about several source materials we can look at in order to grab ideas on puzzle and ‘test’ mechanics to put out audience through puzzles and solving to save the main character. Talking about shows like 14 Cloverfield, 3% and Sherlock gave us insight of how we can angle the scenario.