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Uploaded 14 November, 2007

Interactive Media / Hypertext Narrative

Description

A biographical audio-visual interactive portrait of a tragedy.

Credits

Images:

- Opening image, brick images, ink effects, and scribbles by Grace Purton-Long

- Tea room, image of Pauline and Juliet behind bars, third image of Pauline and Juliet walking away from trial, image of the path where the murder took place, sanatorium all from: http://www.heavenly-creatures.com/parkerhulmecase_
pictures4.html

- All remaining images from: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/studio/2194/

Audio:

- All voice recordings feature actual diary entries, letters and poetry by Pauline Parker (Dear Charles letter written by Juliet Hulmes), and were recorded by Grace Purton-Long.

- All music and ambient samples from Soundtrack Pro, apart from the scream, recorded by Amy Purton-Long edited by Grace Purton-Long.

Text: - All text features actual diary entries, letters and poetry by Pauline Parker (Dear Charles letter written by Juliet Hulmes, fathers testimony by Herbert Rieper and sisters testimony by Wendy Parker) from: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/studio/2194/

Tags / Keywords

audio, biography, crimes, environment, flash, hulmes, interactive, murder, music, nz, parker, pauline, portrait, sound, visual.

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Views 973 times

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Overall Rating 224 sox

Average Rating 37 sox

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karynlanthois from the Mob 20 June 2008

I thought this piece showed allot of promise but suffered from some basic interactivity issues. You do need to visually guide your user through the experience. There were some dead end that caused me to restart. If I couldn't work out how to get back to the main index then probably most users can't. The unpolished feel was under executed. It's hard getting the handmade style to work and often requires more editing and user feedback than slick pieces. Good heart though...would love to see more work like this.

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angusbeattie from the Mob 30 July 2008

quite interesting if not really my cup of tea. sometimes I felt a little lost in navigating through the three naratives but it reminded me of some early internet projects that had random navigation with surprising effects which I liked. nice not to always be overly structured.

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dpugh from the Mob 28 May 2008

Nice concept, but I don't think that it has been delivered very well. The scribbles are just those plain boring scribbles that you get from using the standard brush in flash (it lets your other artworks down in terms of design)...experiment more with a table or something that will create better 'scribble'. Also, I found this extremely difficult to navigate. You need to make it easier for the user to explore/navigate the site. I had to keep restarting the swf to get back to the main page. So if there is a hidden way of getting back to the main page (I found one on the Hilary section)...then you need to make it more obvious by drawing the users attention to it and then using a consistent style of element to train the user on how to navigate the story.

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thegrandasunder 03 Jun, 08 @ 05:24 PM

I know a bit about this case and have watched the film, but this is an intriguing and original retelling of the story. This really captured me. Good job.

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theoriginal 17 Nov, 07 @ 09:57 AM

Gracie, love ya work! Any plans to expand this project further?

Perhaps some video elements or some Super 8 film? Even some after effects work with more photos...

Would be more than happy to contribute.

Derryn.

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benexia 16 Nov, 07 @ 05:53 PM

Saw this on the front page, pretty cool :)