Script Draft 2

Since getting new audio from the hair salon, we decided on one that we liked and thought about how to put it into our animation. There have been some changes to the narrative of the animation as it will now be set out as our character basically ranting about technology and not as a conversation like before. We chose 'Interview 01'. We typed up what the person said in a document and then worked on the script by cutting up bits and pieces together to make it make sense and not like an interview.

We used highlights in word and notes in Adobe Story to help us know which bits in the text went where in our script.

Interview Typed by AlexEdmonds

Interview Typed and Hightlighted by AlexEdmonds

Old Phone Draft 2 by AlexEdmonds

Interviews

During the week we thought it would be best to ask more elderly people about technology than just one. So we edited our questionnaire by adding a few extra questions which George then used to interview elderly people that go to his auntie's hair salon. Below are the recorded results of each interview.

Sound Process

When we had done our rough script we was advised to cut up the sound from the interview of our grandparent and put it together and edit it to improve the sound as well as seeing if what was said made sense and went together well. The sound editing process took 4 stages.

Stage 1: The original interview

Stage 2: Cutting the questions out
Stage 3: Cutting any pauses and "umms"

Stage 4: The person talks slowly as she is quite elderly so we needed to speed the sound up a bit so it didn't sort of drag on at points but hopefully the sound still sounds natural.

From Interview to Script Process

At the interviewing stage we decided to change our approach from interviewing older and younger people to just interviewing one person, a grandparent of one of ours. This had to be done over the phone by putting the telephone on loudspeaker and recording the sound with another device. We ended up changing a couple of questions from before and here is the questionnaire we used.

Questionnaire

From the recorded sound we typed up the answers from our chosen grandparent and highlighted some sections that we thought could be useful to start writing a script with. Here are the answers.

Answers from Questionnaire

From above we came up with the first draft of our script. At this point we decided to make it seem like a conversation between two old phones rather than an interview.

Narrative Script (Draft 1)

Narrative Project: First Thoughts and Ideas

For this project we have been given a time period from which we are to base our 3D 2 minute animation on. Our time period is 'The Information Age' 1970-2000. Through research and initial ideas we have decided to work around the subject of elderly people having to catch up with technology and how arguably some are becoming detached from the rest of the world because they do not know how to use technology or want to know at all.

With this in mind, as part of our research we have decided to interview our family and friends on a recording device, asking them questions on technology and how they feel about it so we are able to understand how people of different ages feel respond.

Here are the interview questions for both elderly people and younger people.

Questions for Teens and Younger Adults

Questions for the Elderly