Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Ethics

During the production stage of researching for the essay, it is important to know and learn the ethical concern for the research and data collecting.

In the UH Student Handbook, the assessment criteria describe the fulfilment of the learning outcomes of a module expressed in terms of the qualities of the work.
There are 2 forms of assessment:i. Formative assessment  
(progress) part of daily teaching and learning experience in tutorials (advice and comments/feedback offered

ii. Summative assessment 
Standard of achievement in relation to the learning outcomes of the module. purpose is to show that I have fulfilled the learning outcomes of this module


a REMINDER for submission!
- responsibility to be familiar with the requirements, deadlines, penalties.
- requirement to submit all work for assessment
- responsibility for making things clear at the end of each piece of the assignment being submitted for assessment and any other participants I have worked with.


Ethics approval is very important during the working phase of producing the essay if it involves the participation of other peoples. The approval will be given by the Faculty Ethics Committee (UH) by completing an Application for Ethics Approval. 

This Application for Approval is made for the protection of the participants involved in the studies from any harm and also to allow them to understand what and why they participate.

There are 4 categories of the ethical issue and risk:
Minimal ethical issues (no work with individuals or organisations).
Low risk (collecting information from adults or organisations but without identifying individuals)
Medium risk (collecting information from adults or organisations that could make subjects identifiable).
High risk (collecting information about illegal activities and/or working)


The author's ethical issues will fall under the category of Minimal Ethical Issues as there will be no participation of any individual or organisations in the research and data collecting. There will also be no participation of any children and illegal things in the study. However, the author will use online journal, library books, genuine articles to study. No plagiarism is allow when the research is being conducted. In addition, the resources used has to be cited and given credits to the author or expert who produced it. Various theories with high quality research will be applied into the essay to support my analysis.


Thursday, November 6, 2014

Hypercomic

In comic books, we see visual graphic and text all over the book, and the users only reads them without any interactions. Comic books does not have any communication with the user, but Hypercomic has. Hypercomic is new narrative approach is used to add more interesting element for user to read comic with a new interactive element and new perspective.

In Hypercomic, the graphics are embedded with interactive animations within the panels and uses sounds effects and background music to enhance the whole scenery feels. This is much more interesting compared to the traditional comics with only static text and flat images. 

These are some interesting Hypercomic examples :

1. TRON LEGACY Digital Book



*The website was taken down and this is the video walkthrough of how the Tron Legacy Hypercomic website looks like*
Tron Legacy Hypercomic Disney Digital Book



2. NAWLZ







3. Never Mind the Bullet







4. The Art Of Pho




5. Fanta



The website was taken down, so I use a video to display how the hypercomic works. http://vimeo.com/82027907

Saturday, November 1, 2014

TOPIC

The topic that I am doing for my essay will be about interactive narrative as I am creating an artefact about it. 

My first thought and rough idea of the essay topic is to discuss the various creative navigation in the digital media that uses the element of interactive narrative. The 2 things that will be analysed is Narrative Game and Hypercomic. There are several terms to be used like narratology, ludology, structuralism, immersion and interaction. I learned that the topic I am working on is too wide in scope. Therefore, I will narrow it down and focus on either narrative game or hypercomic.

The topic I finalize in my essay will be a study of the narrative approaches of hypercomic and how it emerge from the traditional comic. Hypercomic is a form of digital narrative and I will analyse its advantage and benefits to the user. Character plays an important role in the story to brings out the narrative plot too. To strengthen my essay, I will use some books from the library and journal which has expert's theories and literary ideas.