Psychogeography and personal narrative (storyboard and animation, graphic novella, or game).

The software tools we will utilize for this project are Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Flash Scratch.

Project synopsis:

Psychogeography is defined as the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. For this project we will be analyzing our geographical environment as it affects our individual lives through a narrative illustrated by a Flash animation an interactive narrative or game. We will be using simple visual artwork to tell the narrative in graphic novella style.
To completeAs part of the process for this project you will create a 6-10 frame sketches and storyboards as a basis for the narrative you are creating. A storyboard template is available, and sketching resources for Scratch are available; and a Scratch programming reference guide is also available. From the storyboard you will create your Flash animation, drawing elements in Flash or importing some artwork from illustrator.

Timeline for the project is as follows:

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Important readings regarding psychogeography:

Theory of the Dérive by Guy Ernest DeBord
A Dérive is an attempt at analysis of the totality of everyday life, through the passive movement through space. It is translated as drift:
"In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there… But the dérive includes both this letting go and its necessary contradiction: the domination of psychogeographical variations by the knowledge and calculation of their possibilities."