Voice Double Double Voice

Couldnt get this one on youtube cause copyright. Here it is on blogger, hopefully it doesn't get deleted

Remix Your Own Music Video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhaXM1bnPo&feature=youtu.be

This is my music video using Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zero's song Home

Inspire! Motivate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM7AGf0KcGM&feature=youtu.be

Worked on this project with David Diller

Hey! Its a Podcast!

https://soundcloud.com/derek-kruk/creative-project-podcast

Thats the link to the podcast me Derek Kruk and Phill Burdyn made!

What Is This Sorcery? New Game: Deep Space

Zach James

Dr. Eric Williams

MDIA 1020

4, April 2014

                This interactive storytelling game is called Deep Space. The story for this game begins much like another, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… Seriously, that’s where it starts. You are a member of a highly advanced civilization in a galaxy that is light years away from our own. Your planet has been exhausted of all its resources, and is literally falling apart. Your character is a space explorer, sent out on the task to find Krotonium, a rare element found on certain meteors. This element is one that your people use for space travel and they have exhausted the rest of it on getting your ship to fly. With sufficient amounts of this material, your planet can be evacuated, and a new planet can be colonized. This is also one of your tasks, to find a suitable planet for your species to thrive on.

                The gameplay revolves around traveling from galaxy to galaxy, doing various missions to get Krotonium, and of course to find a massive source of this element. As you travel from solar system to solar system, there are various planets that you must scan. Certain planets have nothing, others contain Krotonium, but are dangerous planets, or inhabited by hostile creatures. As captain of the ship, you decide whether to send in crews to mine the Krotonium. Your ship has probes that can help analyze the planet and its potential dangers, but unexpected surprises can pop up anywhere. Each planet takes time to scan, probe and mine, so the user will have to wait often.

When something important happens, dialogue will arise and the captain must choose what decisions to make. Your ship has armor, a certain number of crew members and probes, as well as Krotonium levels. All of these can be affected by external forces and ones decisions. Krotonium depletes as travel, so finding it is necessary to stay flying. Your crew members can die on dangerous mining missions, or your ships armor can be damaged by space debris and other factors. Probes and armor will regenerate with time, but crew members will not. New crew members can be found on planets with intelligent life, but they will require certain things to get. For example, you may discover a planet with life on it, they are willing to help your cause, but first you must retrieve a lost artifact from another planet.

Obviously there are some decisions that can be made which will result in one’s destruction. Maybe the user flew too close to a black hole trying to save fuel on a shorter route, or the ship runs out of fuel with no potential Krotonium sources nearby. These choices result in the death of your crew and you. The player will respawn back at the last wormhole they visited. Wormholes act as save points because they can transcend time and allow you and your ship to respawn.

                This game will take place in on an obviously massive sized map, and add in the time it takes to travel, its clear players will not be finishing the game very quickly. That being said, it can be beaten by finding and taking over a new planet and finding the source of all Krotonium. The goal of the game is be challenging so new users are expected to die often for not choosing their options carefully.

Think You Know my Avatar? Again????

The character seen the left is known as Charles Feng. He is from China, and in his late 30's. He is supposed to be an antagonistic character. Feng has a deep seated hatred from America. His father was a wealthy Chinese buisiness man, who gained his profits through some illegal money transaction fraud. The American Economy was one victim to his crimes, and the United States revealed his illegal actions to the Chinese government. He spent his life in jail and left Charles at a young age.
Feng spent his life working his life with one of his fathers ex buisness partners, who gave him a fairly wealthy life. As he grew older he used his wealth to become owner of an advanced robotics corporation. His company grew in size and so did his power and influence.  He gained powerful political connections and along with the robotics industry he owned, turned China's army into a formitable opponent. Feng then drives China to attack America.
This character is obviously the villian in a game, and he sets up the backstory for what could be a very interesting futurastic shooter. Imagine the deadly robot soldiers one could create, and the plot would circle around the US military fighting back the Chinese death machines to save America and the world. Feng would of course get destroyed in the end, but he is still a very crucial character to the game.

Think You Know my Avatar?

(The Voki website wouldn't let me publish this avatar without purchasing something, so I just took a screenshot!)

The character seen above is Jack Swanson. He is the member of some form of crime investigation agency. Jack is a cold-hearted and pragmatic man. He's not the easiest to get a long with, but his ruthless nature makes him an incredible crime-scene investigator. While to the other people in his unit believe him to be emotionless, he takes every case personally.
As his story develops in whatever game he could be placed in, we would find out why he does what he does. One night in Jack's freshman year of high school, he came home from a friends house only to discover both parents brutally murdered. The investigation that followed found the man responsible, however through some error in the justice system, he was let free. Using the money his parents left him, Jack entered crime scene investigating school and took a personal vendetta to never let this happen to anyone else. His past experiences combined with the rough nature of his job has hardened him over the years, but Jack still feels a deep emotional connection to solving the mysteries he is presented with.
Clearly this character belongs in a mature game. I picture him being effectively inserted into a game similar to Heavy Rain where the game isn't necessarily about shooting, but more about solving a mystery. His character has lots of room to develop and he has a past that can be brought up. These values make a story driven game ideal for Jack Swanson.

This Movie Rocked: Psycho

Shamley Entertainment

Script Coverage

Title: Psycho	Setting: Heavily wooded Island in Pacific Northwest
Author: Joseph Stefano (SP) Robert Block (novel)	Period: Current at the time (1960)
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock	Elements Attatched
Submitted By: Zachary James	Submitted To: Zachary James
Read (watched) By: Zachary James	Genre: Horror, Suspense
Coverage Date: 3/13/14	Submission Date: 3/13/14

	Excellent	Very Good	Good	So-So	Not Good
Plot	X
Characters	X
Dialogue	X
Structure		X
Commercial Appeal			X

Recommend: X

Consider:

Pass:

Log Line: A young woman on the run for a crime disappears after staying at the Bates Motel and her family starts an investigation to find her.

Summary: A young woman named Marion Crane in Phoenix, Arizona is on her lunch break from work. She’s talking with her boyfriend Sam about marriage and her inability to afford it. She returns to her job where a drunken client offers her boss 40,000 cash for a house. Marion is entrusted with taking it to the bank. She steals it instead and leaves town.

            On Marion’s drive she pulls over and falls asleep. A police officer awakens her the next morning and can sense something is wrong but lets her go. She switches out her car for another in a nearby town. That night as Crane drives a big storm rolls in and she is forced to pull into the Bates Motel. She meets the young but nervous Norman Bates, who explains the hotel doesn’t get much business anymore after the highway route was diverted. He gets her a room and invites her to dinner at the parlor. During the meal Norman explains that his mother who built the place is mentally-ill. Marion suggests she should be put in an institution of some kind and Norman dislikes this idea very much. After the talk, Marion decides she should return to Phoenix and make right what she’s done.

            After Marion and Norman separate, Marion goes to shower. Norman watches her through a peep-hole from the parlor, and then runs up to the house behind the motel. As Marion showers, a shadowy figure that has the look of a woman runs in and brutally stabs her to death. Moments later Norman enters and discovers her body. He wraps her in the shower curtain and dumps her car and the body in the swamps.

            Back in Phoenix, Marion’s sister Lila and her boyfriend Sam are worried about Marion’s recent disappearance. A detective named Arbogast informs them she has stolen 40,000 dollars from her boss and probably split town, but that he also intends to find her. He eventually finds the Bates Motel. Upon questioning Norman, he becomes suspicious of Norman’s extremely nervous behavior. Arbogast eventually gets him to admit he saw Marion. Amongst his stammers Norman says that Marion met his mother and when the detective asks to see her Norman becomes irate. He asks him to leave.

            Arbogast drives to a telephone to inform Sam and Lila that he has suspicions about the Bates Motel, but was unable to obtain all the evidence because he couldn’t talk to Norman’s mother. He tells the two he will be back soon. Arbogast returns to the motel and when he cannot find Norman he wanders up to the house. He enters and goes upstairs. When he reaches the top stair a woman runs out of a room and slashes his face. Arbogast falls dramatically down to the bottom, and then the woman stabs him to death.

            Lila and Sam become increasingly worried that Arbogast has not returned. They consult the local sheriff and tell him what Arbogast has told them. He is confused because Norman’s mother died years ago in a murder-suicide. We return to Norman who is heard of screen talking to his mother, telling her she needs to go to the basement to stay safe. He is seen carrying a woman down the stairs.

            After their consultation with the sheriff raises more questions, Lila and Sam go to the Bates Motel themselves. They rent a room and begin to investigate. Lila finds a scrap of paper in the toilet and deciphers 40,000 written on it. Sam also notices the lack of shower curtains. The two formulate a plan to have Sam distract Norman and for Lila to search the house. She can’t find Mrs. Bates, and Sam can only distract Norman for so long. He figures out what is going on and hits Sam, knocking him out. Lila sees Norman approaching and hides in the basement. She sees Mrs. Bates in a rocking chair, only to discover she is a decrepit dead body. Norman runs in with a large knife, dressed in a woman’s clothing. He almost kills Lila until Sam enters and saves her.

            Norman is arrested and back at the police station a psychiatrist interviews Norman. He explains that Norman’s childhood was ruled over by his mother, who had a very dominant personality. When she found love in another man, he lost it and killed them both but preserves his mother’s body. He developed a split personality thinking he was he mother some of the time and Norman for others, and sometimes he was both. After the events of the tonight, Norman has become locked into his mother’s personality forever. The camera goes to Norman, who hears his mother’s voice in his head explaining how she is innocent and he did all the crimes. As the credits roll, Marion’s car is recovered from the swamp.

Comments:

            By today’s standards, Psycho is a very unique movie. Its storyline follows several different characters and it’s almost as if there is no main character. Marion has lots of back story, but gets killed quickly. While the story revolves around finding Marion, other characters get the spotlight. Norman is obviously very important and bits of his story are revealed as the story goes, as one would expect. But then, just when the audience thinks Arbogast is the hero, he is also killed. It eventually falls on Sam, who we met very briefly in the beginning and Lila, someone who we know very little about. While this kind of lack of backstory might be criticized today, I think its genius. It keeps the audience guessing. This also distracts the viewer from guessing who the real murderer is.

            Other than its unique character entrance and use, the plot of Psycho is fantastic.  It moves very well to each new character and keeps you guessing right up until the very end. The way Mrs. Bates is shown, or not shown is very genius. The audience can hear her voice and see her once so it rules out the option she is actually dead. In today’s modern film industry the horror movie plot of someone having multiple personalities and not knowing they were a killer is a common tactic, but in 1960 that plot twist I’m sure it worked well. In the end I see why this movie has such an influence on modern horror.

            The overall acting was not the best I’ve seen, however for its time I would call it superb. Marion shows her conflicted feelings about stealing the money very well, through her often nervous behavior. Also, who could forget her classic scream when she is stabbed in the shower? Norman is perhaps my favorite of the actors. He is always nervous, but in the tense scene with Arbogast, one really has to appreciate the way he stumbles and stammers around. It’s a really accurate representation of what some people do when they are caught in a lie. Arbogast plays a good detective, kind of the stereotypical manly man but he fills the spot well. Sam and Lila both do a fine job, but nothing spectacular. This acting is also attributed to a well written script with realistic reactions and lines.

            My highly trained film eye did catch a few sloppy edits, however considering this movie is from 1960 and I’m sure Final Cut wasn’t accessible without computers.

            Even though this movie was made 24 years before I was born, I have a real appreciation for its impact and would recommend it to any fan of the horror genre, or even a fan of well written movies. If this were a script, I would recommend it be made into a movie immediately.

That's Not What I Heard! Scene from Pulp Fiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPsbRXByG5g David Diller and I did this project together. We weren't really sure if we were supposed to change the lines of dialogue around or not, so we rewrote the scene with new lines. Its short, but the requirement was 10 seconds so I think it works well.

48 Hour Shootout

This year I worked with a group of primarily seniors and juniors on the 48 hour shootout. As a collective group we generate the idea and put it into action very effectively. We managed to 3rd place overall! Here is the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ltIIlssdM

What would MY Super Powers be?

Script Coverage: House Of the Dead...THIS MOVIE SUCKED

Mindfire Entertainment

Script Coverage

Title: House of the Dead	Setting: Heavily wooded Island in Pacific Northwest
Author: Mark A. Altman, Dan Bates	Period: Current times (2003)
Producer:	Elements Attatched
Submitted By:	Submitted To: Zachary James
Read (watched) By: Zachary James	Genre: Horror, Action
Coverage Date: 2/10/14	Submission Date: 2/10/14

	Excellent	Very Good	Good	So-So	Not Good
Plot					X
Characters					X
Dialogue					X
Structure					X
Commercial Appeal					X

Recommend:

Consider:

Pass:X

Log Line: A group of friends go to a strange island in the Pacific for a “rave” only to find everyone is gone and the island is full of zombies

Summary: A group of friends, Simon, Greg, Alicia, Karma, and Cynthia plan on going to a really awesome rave on an island. Unfortunately they miss the boat, but luckily they meet a fisherman named Captain Kirk and his creepy first mate Salish. Kirk takes them to the Island after avoiding a cop trying to stop and search his boat.

            The four friends arrive on the Island only to find it deserted, and the rave left unattended. Alicia, Karma and Simon go out across the Island to find out where everyone went. Greg and Cynthia are left behind and when Greg goes to take a leak, Cynthia is killed by Zombies. The three that went off to look for others find an old house where they meet up with Rudy, Liberty, and Hugh. The new members of the group explain that zombies are responsible for the madness that has transpired. Meanwhile, Kirk and Salish are unloading stolen goods from their boat, because the cops are on their tale. Sadly Salish is killed out in the woods, hiding from zombies

            The six members of the search party return to the rave site, finding Greg in an overturned party. Cynthia has mysteriously disappeared, only to return a zombie and snap Hugh’s neck. The cop that followed Kirk’s (her name is Casper) shows up just in time to put a few bullets in Cynthia, narrowly saving the day. They develop a plan to return home using Kirk’s ship. After an intense run through the woods, they find Kirk’s ship overrun by zombies. Simon jumps into the water while Casper fends off the zombies with her gun. Kirk reappears and helps fight with another gun. Liberty goes swimming as well, trying to help Simon. In all, Simon gets acid spit on his face (yes, the zombies can do that), and Kirk is bitten. Greg and Casper leave to go find help.

            While Casper is out, Kirk tells a story about a Spanish priest named Castillo who lived hundreds of years ago. He was banished from Spain for performing ungodly experiments. While on a ship, he allegedly kills the crew and lands his boat at this island, but Kirk dismisses it as a legend. Meanwhile, Casper and Greg encounter zombies while out looking for help and Greg gets killed. Casper returns to the group, with a bag full of guns. Kirk also has a box full of guns that he had on his ship. The group makes a plan to go to big scary house.

            There is a long battle sequence in front of the house. Many zombies are killed. Liberty is mauled by zombies when she runs out of ammo, and Casper dies dramatically in Rusty’s arms. The remaining group members make it into the house, but Kirk is severely wounded in the process. Simon and Karma make out while they find free time. Rudy and Alicia make out also. A book is found that the story Kirk told earlier was true. They leave the still wounded Kirk behind to search the house.

            They find a strange room full of experimental, mad scientist like stuff. There are also lots of corpses lying around. Rudy looks in a microscope and recognizes human blood as being mutated, which explains how they became zombies. Meanwhile, the severly injured Kirk heres Salish whistling outside. He goes outside to find Salish a zombie and shoots him in the face. Kirk decides he is already dead and lights a stick of dynamite on his cigar and blows himself up. Rudy returns to the lab after finding gunpowder. Alicia sees a strange tank which has a giant eel fish thing in it. Karma runs in and shoots it. The tanks water must have been magic or something because all the corpses in the room are brought to life. Everyone retreats to the room with gunpowder in it. Simon gets grabbed by zombies while everyone else finds a hidden staircase to escape. He shoots the barrels of gunpowder and blows the house up.

            The group is now in a hidden catacomb. Rudy analyzes that this is a supply tunnel and it must lead to the beach. On the way Karma sacrifices herself. Then suddenly Greg (who is supposed to be dead) shows up with a cape and a sword. He takes them to a strange room. Greg is actually not Greg, but the crazy Spanish priest, wearing Greg’s skin on his face. Zombies show up and hold Rudy and Alicia down. He explains that he made himself immortal using what I have to assume is the blood of that eel thing, and also made the zombies. Rudy breaks free and Alicia stabs the priest with a sword. Rudy finds a grenade and blows the place up as he and Alicia find an exit. Castillo lives and in a sword fight with Alicia and stabs her. Rudy chops Castillo’s head off, but his body still lives and chokes Rudy. Alicia with her little strength left, curb stomps the head and his body collapses.

            A helicopter arrives and armed men exit, telling Rudy and the barely living Alicia they are there to rescue them. The film ends on a shot of a city with Rudy questioning whether this was “the end, or only the beginning”.

Comments: The horror movie genre has never been known for its gripping stories, and sadly this movie exemplifies this idea down to its very core.

            The very first scene is a shot of Rudy, sitting outside, wandering how everything got so messed up and why “everybody is dead”. Not only is the script very poorly written here, it also creates a very confusing scene. Rudy isn’t even with the first group of four people we meet. It’s really not even clear who Rudy is until he is introduced twenty minutes later. Despite this, Rudy is somehow the main character, and survives until the end. Rudy has no past, and therefore, nobody cares about him. The other characters suffer a similar fate, they all have very little backstory. Random people sloppily fall in love suddenly, without any indication of previous love endeavors. There are in fact, so many problems with the character development that stating them all seems pointless.

Take for example, Casper. She is seen very briefly in the beginning of the film, then later she shows up on the island, and is instantly thrown in as a main character. She is forced to kill her partner who shows up as a zombie, but we’ve only seen him once before as well. What was supposed to be an emotional scene loses all value. When Casper dies, Rudy is extremely upset, but Rudy just met her right around the same time the audience met her. It doesn’t make any sense.

            The world of the film is basic, and if you’ve seen one horror film, you’ve seen them all. A mysterious island that the locals swear is haunted, the big house covered in vines and surrounded by a graveyard. Everything was very cliché.

            The film’s villain has an almost insignificant role. He is seen several times before his story is explained, and his story was short and pointless. He had no loss or emotional ties that caused him to become evil, he was just some angry guy who got banished from Spain. In fact, it never explains HOW he became immortal. It couldn’t have been through the same process as the zombies, they are mindless creatures, yet Castillo can talk and seems intelligent. Are we supposed to assume the strange eel like creature has something to do with this? His character feels lazy and not unique in any way.

            The dialog is as laughable as everything else. The acting is bad, and the lines are extremely corny. The lines feel forced and there is very little emotion in anyone’s voice, even when they are trying to be scared. It’s almost like they did one take of every shot.

            As for the “action” side of this movie, it’s pathetic. The CGI is very poorly done, and unnecessary. There are shots of the camera’s following bullets through the air that take out zombies, which seem pointless and look like a joke. For some strange reason the movie incorporates random clips from the arcade game that this movie is based on. These shots don’t really make any sense and feel very out of place.

            Overall, this movie makes me question whether this is supposed to be a horror or a comedy. I would only recommend this film to someone who wants to watch something really bad. If this were a script I might shred it up on the spot.

Up, Up & Away

Zach James

Dr. Eric Williams

MDIA 1020

13 February 2014

Up, Up & Away?

10 Superhero’s & their Powers:

11. Wolverine: Self-Regenerates, bones are covered in indestructible metal

22. The Hulk: When he gets mad he turns into a giant, green, and very pissed monster

23. Green Lantern: Has a ring of power that can construct any weapon he wants

44. Flash: Runs and moves very quickly

55. Thor: God of lightning, can fly, has a hammer and lightning powers

66. Blade: Partially human Vampire that can walk in daylight but still has vampire powers

77. Superman: From a much larger planet which gives him strength and other abilities like flying

88. Storm: Ability to control the weather

99. Captain America: underwent procedure to turn him into a super soldier, giving him strength

110. Spiderman: Radioactive spider gives him spider like reflexes and abilities

If I had the choice between the superhero abilities of flying or invisibility I would choose invisibility. Flying is awesome and all, and would allow for fast travel, but imagine how much fun being invisible would be. You could get away with anything you wanted, commit crimes, feed the poor like Robin Hood, and not to mention play the most hilarious jokes on people. The only disadvantage would be that while you’re invisible, you could still be run into and that would just confuse the shit out of people.

Who killed Kennedy?

Zach James

Eric Williams

MDIA 1020

9 January 2014

Conspiracy Theories: JFK Assassination

US President John F. Kennedy was shot dead by an assassin in Dallas Texas, on Friday November 22^nd, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was caught, but to this day, people continue to theorize who was really behind it all.

The Mafia:

This theory is about President of the United States John F. Kennedy, who is assassinated by a shady organized crime group. Before Kennedy was elected, several mafia families worked with his father, Joseph Kennedy, in order to get JFK into office. During his presidency, Fidel Castro topples over Cuba’s government and actual documents confirm the CIA tried to get a mafia family to kill Castro out of a mutual benefit. Many organized crime groups were angry at Kennedy after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. To top it all off, despite the mafia’s help to get Kennedy into office, his younger brother the attorney general, Robert pushed a legal attack on organized crime. The mafia killed Kennedy, in spite of the fact they had a connected past.

Lyndon B Johnson:

This theory is about President of the United States John F. Kennedy, who is assassinated as part of a diabolical plot by his Vice President Lyndon B Johnson. LBJ had a financial scandal that made him fear for his job at Kennedy’s next election. He was also hungry for the power of the being the President. Kennedy was on a visit to Dallas, Texas, Johnson’s home state. Many of Johnsons people helped arrange the trip JFK took. A smudged finger-print on the back of Kennedy’s assassin’s gun is supposedly the fingerprint of Malcom Wallace, an associate of LBJ. Johnson also took steps to cover up the assassination afterwards, claiming that JFK’s killer Oswald, professed on his death bed that he did it.

The CIA

This theory is about President of the United States John F. Kennedy, who is assassinated as part of a plot assembled by his very own CIA. Kennedy finds outs that his own CIA has been making plans to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba. Out of concern for the potential repercussions of their decisions, the CIA orders the assassination of Kennedy. Currently, the CIA still withholds information about the assassination. It could be that they have locked away the true details to cover up what they did. 

Blackfish Doc Review

Zach James

Dr. Williams

MDIA 1020

1 February 2014

Blackfish

                There has been a lot of hype lately about this movie, and after watching it, one might get a better grasp on why. This documentary film follows in its narrative spine the life of a killer whale named Tilikum, from his capture in 1983 to the present. He currently resides in Seaworld and has killed three people. Tilikum’s life hasn’t been an easy one however and the film really tries to blame the aggression on his time spent at Sealand, where he was kept in a small cage and abused constantly by other whales. This is where his first “murder” took place and he was still taken by Seaworld. The employee’s and trainers interviewed had no idea of Tilikum’s past.  This leads into the train of the film, the story of Dawn, the expert trainer who was killed by Tilikum, unaware of his true potential. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite really plays on ones emotions watching this movie, and does a fantastic job of showing how intelligent Orcas really are. She presents a theme that the captivity wild animals has a negative effect on their lives and in some cases the lives of humans as well. Overall I give the movie a 9 out of 10 for unveiling a truly interesting story that makes one question the ethics of animals

Zach James

Dr. Williams

MDIA 1020

28 January 2014

http://www.sixtostart.com/

            The interactivity used by six to start in their app “Zombies, Run! 2” is a very genius idea. Zombies are a popular concept nowadays, especially with television shows like The Walking Dead becoming more and more popular. Instead of being the usual mobile app that just involves simple tapping and tilting, this app encourages its users to get out and get active. By immersing its users in a world where zombies are everywhere and they need to perform various tasks by running certain amounts of miles. It plays various sounds like missions or zombie hordes, and gives the users maps to see where they’ve been and need to go. This helps the user immerse themselves in a whole new experience and makes running feel like it has a purpose. Successful interactive media should “envelope the user in a rich, fully-involving environment” (Williams 34) and that is exactly what this application does. The true benefits of such an interactive and immersive experience come clear when it is used to promote good health and well-being. The makers of this app were certainly on to something.

            Using some of the knowledge I gained from discovering “Zombies, Run! 2”, I have created a new app called “Olympic Runner”. This game focuses on getting people to get out and run, walk, and be active, only using competition to create inspiration. When the app is turned on, it records how many miles you’ve traveled. Using the recorded amount of exercise you get and other health statistics you add (height, age, gender, eating habits, ect.) it gives you a health rating. All the other users of the app have their own health rating and exercise records. Depending on where you are in comparison to other users data on the leaderboards, you will receive a medal. The user’s goal is to simply be healthier than everyone else. Each person that has the app can add specific friends and view their statistics. Double tapping a friend’s stat will add it to your goals if it is better than yours. This way a user can set them an objective to work towards. Each time you complete a goal and become healthier than a friend, they are notified. It’s easy to see where users could take the competition to a new level. The app will also add goals based on your personal statistics, so even if one has no friends they can still move towards a goal.

To help immerse our app users into the story, the tie to the Olympics will need to be strong. Releasing it around the time of the next summer Olympics would really help the app become noticed and makes it easy to advertise. Sound recordings will be used in the App. At the start of a run an announcer will count down and then there is a gunshot fired to signal recording of data. When goals are completed, the crowd roars with excitement. At the end of the exercise one can view a map of where they ran, and see other routes nearby friends have taken. The real story that drives this app is the one the users create however, through the competition. The sounds and medals help add to the idea behind it all, but the feelings of intense rivalry and competitive sport are what the Olympics are really about, and so is this app.

Works Cited

Williams, Erica, and Beth Novak, eds. Media and the Creative Process. N.p.: University Readers, 2014. Print.