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From the beginning I was quick to discover that I would have to pull back on the scope of this project.  I simply wanted to display too much information.  Initially I had intended to show a wide variety of statistics along with each characters influencing dialogue.  This proved to be too much.  Instead I chose to take a more straight forward approach and find a way to display the play itself in a unique way.

While prototyping this display method, I discovered a few things I thought were particularly interesting:

Poetry From “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

The picture above shows lines of poetry spoken within “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.  I found this visual representation of speech rather unique.

One Partial Scene and Three Whole Scenes From “Titus Andronicus”

Another feature I found interesting was the obvious distinguishing line between scenes (as seen above).

Aftermath and Breakdown

Overall, I am happy with my final “poster” results.  I do wish that I had been able to make this an interactive piece (which I may go back and do for posterity’s sake).  One feature I would have liked to have been able to include is a “Last Words” pop up which would show a character’s last words in the play.

It would also be nice to figure out a method in which to display all of a play on screen at one time and still have it be relatively readable.  I found that it was nearly impossible to display any of the plays I tested in a window less than 2000 pixels.  Images ranging from 10k-20k pixels in width were the best for display, but were impractical when it came to navigating