Applying Technology


I was absent this week but my group updated me on what they had learnt and told me about the different technologies that we could apply to our narrative experience. With this piece of technology the group used conductive paint to create buttons for a circuit that was then connected to wires. When the buttons were pressed the circuit initiated the creation of different sounds.

From this workshop and the information we gathered from the previous week's lecture we decided that we wanted to include some sort of game within our design so that the viewers/participants can engage more closely with our topic.

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