My role within the group will be to create an interactive story using flash and integrate it somehow into a 3D environment and animation of the River Aire running through Saltaire as well as creating some of the surrounding buildings/structures. I plan on drawing inspiration from the intro film from the opening of the 2012 London Olympics which shows an open plain that becomes the river Thames.
My 3D environment will be the linking aspect of the rest of the environments as the river spans the distance between the 2 mills, Salts mill and Victoria (masons) mill. To accomplish this I will need to create basically the entire River running through Saltaire, starting at the footbridge into Roberts Park, but I will also be including the original road bridge which ran past the old and new mill buildings and across the river towards the lodge in Roberts Park.
As the camera travels down the river I will include (where possible) stories detailing some of the history of the river and the people who live around it, such as the woman who died during the floods of 2002, to which Tom has the story, and the history involving Sir Titus Salt.
There may also be opportunity to include a contrast in time, showing some of the original buildings around the river and contain some kind of animation that shows it changing to how it currently is.