skyWriting

This interactive narrative portrays a plane while it is skywriting. As you click on the arrow, you are required to drag the arrow in order for the text to show up, just like how an actual plane would do in skywriting. To start off, this really seemed like a great idea. The animation of the narrative is done very well, and i enjoyed moving the mouse around and creating the text just like a real plane would. However, the space that is given is very small, causing you to move the curser upside down, which means the text will be turned around s well. I could not read any of the poem, and even stopped after only the second screen. This narrative was very interactive, but failed to get the main message out to the public, which was the poem. I think that what should have been done is instead of limiting the user to only the small space given, the screen should have advanced vertically as you move your curser to the right. With doing this, you would never run out of space and could then actually read the poem. I definitely did enjoy watching the animation as each slide would change though. A new background always entered the screen flawlessly and the text would cleverly disappear from the screen. Once again though, feel the main purpose of creating a narrative in the first place was sabotaged for this narratives animation.

http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/skywriting/