Studio 2: Progress

My flowchart is finalized and has started being brought to fuition by Hizi in Unity, as you can see from the video. Still a lot more to come - this is only the experience up until the phone call.

Hizi is following the flowchart I made in Whimsical
https://whimsical.com/8H67FDHKjMvrA53MGnPv77

Meanwhile, I have written and recorded the audio for the video trailer that will now begin the AR experience - it will serve as both backstory and a diversion: in the hopes that when their phopne 'rings' (as part pof the story), the user is caught off-guard.

I have also written and recoreded and re-written and re-recorded all of the narration for the whole scene - which forms the backbone of the experience.

One excerpt:

002 Narration:

"This is Encounter1, Encounter1 to Mission Control. 

Over.

I am 5 seconds from launching Protocol 1 and am standing by for that event.

Over

BEAT

Greetings friends of Space, this is Encounter 1. Have you eaten yet? 

Over

My name is Fran Bean. I am 38 years, 120 days and 9 hours into my mission.

Encounter1 requests permission to engage in communications.

Please engage in Protocol 5 to initiate communications, over."

I am now adding stock footage from Envato Elements and editing this with the trailer audio (I'll have this to post next) and the audio for my pitch to the NGV.

Hizi will give me the first full build tomorrow for testing and we will go from there.

One of the things that worked well was starting with a script for narration and recording that, but then improvising it and improving it as I went along. Playing with the character and listening back to her until I got her right. Now I'm going for rhythm and a sort of bored monotone in her voice.

Listing to lots of audio from various space missions and the Apollo 11 mission has also helped me to find the right tone.

Eventually I plan to replace my voice with an actor's, but using my own for now has definately helped the scripting process.