We began by writing down the structure of our story. Imani did the actual writing as she is so incredibly good at drawing circles.
After determining the structure, we decided to film. We didn’t have tripods so I had to hold the camera as still as possible while we filmed. We got all the shots but had to improvise when it turned out we weren’t allowed to film in the library. Instead we got a shot in the art shop.
After filming, we began to upload the footage from the camera to the computer. Once it was all downloaded we imported them into After Effects where we planned to add clickable buttons to each choice. I did this by creating a shape layer, then a text layer on top of it. We decided that we would want the viewer to explore each scene for a couple seconds before they had the choice to move on so we made the buttons fade in after 5 seconds. Once the first button was complete, all we had to do was copy and paste for each shot, changing the text accordingly. You can see the layer breakdown for one of the shots below.
After positioning the buttons for each shot we exported out each clip to prepare for Eevo.