looking at the stories that CBeebies has produced here i have a few points that i need to include in my stories.
  • audio buttons
  • instructions on using
  • nice loading screen
  • large buttons with obvious rollover states
  • a frame
  • start again button
  • clear readable text
  • play again button on scenes with a large amount of animation

Our current project is a live brief. meaning that the outcomes will be displayed on a live websie belonging to treasureislandtoys.co.uk. they will be shown on a special website with games etc. for the children of customers to use, this website is already live and can been viewed here.

Brief

Produce illustrations with animated flourishes to accompany a Bertie the pirate story. many of the characters have been illustrated and some background artworks exists. You must create illustrations for your story that are stylistically in keeping with the existing artwork.

you can produce artwork in illustrator and/or flash's drawing enviroment, and create the animations and interactivity and flash. the story must be created at 845 x 475 pixels, you should have a voice over reading the story and the presentation of a suitable amount of text per page. you should be able to move to the next and previous page or start from the beginning from anywhere within your story.

once you have produced an animated/illustrated interactive story in flash you will design and build and interface that can display all of the stories. your home page will carry links to all of the individual stories on separate pages. each individual story page will carry a button back to the home page. your story page home button should be created in flash and use sound and animation. your story page home button should be created in flash and use sound and animation. other interface elements may be animated or static. you will build your interface in html and lay it out using css.

the TA for this project is children between 5 and 7 years old.
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