This week we focused on hashing out the final narrative details. We really wanted to finalise the narrative so we could get to the next stage of the project and start to create our artefacts. We wanted to figure out plot holes and work out a timeline of releasing information to our audience. We realised we need to fine the balance of releasing the right information in the right amount so that audiences have enough information to run with and be interested motivated to try and figure the mystery out themselves – without telling them too much and giving them all the answers.

We started to work through this by completing the individual narratives from 1901, 1989 and 2016 and then working out inconsistencies in them so we could work out how we could retell it to our audience. Trying to correlate the narratives and figuring out how to tell the story to the audience has given me a new found appreciation for authors of crime mysteries, I can’t even imagine how TV shows like NCIS are still thinking of new episodes, 13 series in. There is an art to be able to think of a realistic crime yourself, give it enough motive but not make it really obvious and then to tell it to the audience in a way so they have the opportunity to solve it themselves is really hard work.