Project 6 Keeping it "real"

Create another version of yourself (for example: a fantasy self, an exaggerated self, or a future self). Illustrate a narrative in Flash that uses this constructed idea of self as it's main focus.

As such your idea for the narrative and your ability to draw in the viewers interest with Flash will be a major component of your grade, along with technical concerns.

The point of your narrative should unfold gradually, but it does not have to be linear, and can take many different forms.

must include 5 different scenes.

What/When do I turn in?

By the end of the day of Friday December 12, you will email me a published .swf file, or have it in my mailbox on disc. I will be available for personal critiques/help during the last week on Monday the 8th and Wed. the 10th if desired.

Personal Interview (in class assignment from wednesday the 19th) is due by the end of the day Friday the 21st via email (cpireland@gmail.com) or in my mailbox. Completion of this will factor in to your grade.



Points to Consider:

Myspace and Facebook allow us to create personalized web pages that basically look the same and get about as personal as what's on our ipod and status reports about what we had for breakfast. Identity is a construct. You could wake up today and dress differently, talk to different people, listen to different music, and the world wouldn't end. This is a chance for some to do that, but maybe more accurately this is a chance for you to "blow up" some small aspect of your personality and make it more intense. Because identity is a construct even the most honest attempt to recreate it can be considered a creation of the author.


You will be graded on concept as well as executions. Only working projects with a spirited and/or unique perspective of "self" will get an "A".