Assignment 7 To Live

Developing from Zhang Yimou film, To Live, which based on a novel of Yu Hua’s To Live. Visualize the plot line, climax and narrative structure of the story of To Live, the interface is similar to the electrocardiography, showing the relation between intensity, character and time, will be displayed like a long reel. Also, the shaking words are restricted in the nearby area of graph, so the user has to zoom in and selected descriptive sentences first are broken down as single word.

1) When the mouse moves near left and right boundaries, reel will open show other part of the whole reel. Using if-statement and mouse position to make the graph slides back and fore when mouse moves specific area. 

2) When the mouse moves near top and bottom boundaries, user is able to zoom in to read all the text and zoom out to view the whole narrative structure.

3) When the mouse moves on it, separated word will back to its original place and sentence will reform. Create a class named letter, function shake() and original() to make the sentences separated to many words, and vibrate within specific area, when the mouse moves on specific  area, the words will stop shaking and back to original place, so the user can read the text.

4) When the mouse click on the larger vocabularies, an edited video clip of To Live will pop up. Using the Movie Class to insert the video, play() to play the video, and mousePressed() function to play video while the mouse button is pressed on the specific vocabulary.

5) THINKING…
a)Background responses to the position of mouse, plot related silhouette or shadow puppetry changes with visual effect fade in and fade out.
b)Show edited and rearranged video clip behind the graph.

c)Show floating Important element likes shadow puppetry, character behind.


Below is the draft of interface. Those repeated line represent many shaking text, user has to zoom in to read it.