Deck 11: Writing and Interactive Design

Question 1

Flowcharting describes

A) A graphic or a photo
B) A video or audio element
C) Text
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Interactive media requires the writer to write for not only audio and video, but also for graphics, animation, photos, and text

Answer 2

True

Question 3

In correct order, list each step in the Seven Step Process (Chapter 2)

Answer 3

1) Define the communication problem
2) Define the target audience
3) Define the objective
4) Define the strategy
5) Define the content
6) Define the medium
7) Write the creative concept

Question 4

The human brain does not function in a linear fashion.

Question 5

Who invented HTML?

A) Jonas Hart
B) Tim Berners-Lee
C) David M. Martin
D) Richard Castle

Question 6

Flowcharts offer what information for an interactive program.

Question 7

Explain what an avatar is:

Question 8

Adobe Flash is animation software that

A) uses HTML
B) Handles frame movement and layering of visual elements
C) Handles website design
D) Also creates tables for websites

Question 9

The four production steps in an interactive program are

Question 10

A written proposal is the necessary start to any interactive program.

Question 11

Explain what visual writing is and how the writer will use a visual metaphor to create interactivity.

Question 12

A flowchart is a schematic drawing that represents the flow of choices or the click stream that a user can follow

Question 13

Give examples of computer icons that are considered as metaphors

A) Trash can for Macs
B) Recycle bin for Windows
C) An hourglass
D) All of the above

Question 14

What group offers, "that writers, rather than designers, should be composing the scripts for games"?

A) IGDA - International Game Developers Association
B) Writers Guild of America - West Coast
C) Writers Guild of Great Britain
D) Writers Guild of America - East Coast

Question 15

What metaphor is used to describe the concept of branching?

Question 16

There is no industry-wide standard script layout for interactive programming.

Question 17

What are Storyboards used for?

Question 18

What is one way of construing the content with an organizing idea that precedes the writing?

Question 19

Different interactive choices produce different responses from the characters.

Question 20

A writer, for interactive content, needs to have some knowledge of how graphics, animation, and authoring tools work.