The first draft for our social media site design

After Andy's idea, it's called chirper! The image of the girl is not mine and just a replacement for now, the right side looks very empty but after scratching my head several times I could still not think of anything that should be there so I left it free for now. Any improvement ideas are welcome, hope you like the idea so far :p

Narrative tutorial with Alan

After talking to Alan today, he asked us to make some bullet points and line out our idea as a story, so here goes:

First of all, the main character thinks only in social media terms and it's all happening in his head.

- a girl sits at a bus stop
- main character, guy, let's call him Bob, comes along and sits down next to her
- the screen splits, shows his face, her face and a social media site alike to facebook
- it has her fictional profile, titles "pretty girl", camera zooms into details of her which pop up as information on her profile (uni ID, logo on jumper - favourite band? etc)
- he waves in her direction, facebook writes hello in the chat with "pretty girl" that popped up
- on facebook he sends friend request, in rl he half leans over to shake her hand, she is daydreaming and doesn't notice
- he doesn't give up and sends her an emoji which turns into a creepy smile on his face
- not knowing what to say, he types questions and deletes them before sending them over and over again
- all the while the facebook window grows bigger and takes up the girls side
- he finally sends something and looks up proudly only to discover that she left the bus stop
- the facebook window fades and leaves him sitting on his own but a little window pop up at the top "pretty girl has left the conversation"
- his gaze falls onto a little blue bird that sits where she was sitting, bird looks back at him
- credits
- back onto bird, "follow?" button pops up

Narrative idea

This story is pretty basic... Split screening the life of the kid and a dog that has been abandoned and lives on the street.  The Kid is on his way to School and Kids never approach him and because of his disability. On that same day he gets bullied by some seniors.. at that same time the stray dog comes to rescue the kid from the bullies and saves the kid.

Another story that came to my mind is the concept of a Kid being mentally challenged or have Autism and doesn't talk to anyone but his Imaginary friend. There is a dog who is lonely without love and finds this Kid and tries to befriend him but gets pushed away by the Kid. At last they unite and the dog becomes to best friend.

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