Capstone Ideas

My idea for my capstone is a website to host a story that my friend and I have been working on for quite awhile. There isn't enough of the story done to put it on the website so at the moment its going to be more for introducing the main characters, the back stories of them and the world the story takes place in, and just enough information to give people a kick start in interest in the story. I'm hoping sooner or later it will host the actual story, be it in either written word or comic form.

My hope for this capstone can be broken down into two major things:
1.) build a website that has both a mobile and tablet version
2.) get profiles, back stories, and descriptions done of all the main characters and hopefully some of the minor ones

All in all there are three main characters for both me and my friend, with a varying , but pretty big, amount of more minor characters. My friend is not a part of IUPUI and I'm not sure she'll be able to complete that much on her characters but since I've come up with most of the major components on the world and such, I should be able to provide more than enough to flesh out the website.

I'm going to try to code it all myself using HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and JQuery. The only thing my friend will provide is information on her own characters and drawings of the characters because I cannot draw a thing. I also have illustrations from a few more of my friends that I might use but will do so with their permission and give them due credit on the website.

Upon giving it more thought (and a conversation with Beth) I've realized that this capstone, the way it is at the moment, will require a lot of reading. Which most people won't want to do. So I thought about adding a visual and/or audio component to it. Something that will sum up the contents of the page on certain ones that have a lot of text, such as descriptions of various races or forces, that will give the user the basic gist of it all and if they wish they can read the full description.

These videos will mostly comprise of me, or someone that has a better voice that would like to do it, "summing" things up a bit with pictures done by some of my friends (who are so much better at drawing than I will ever be) in the background that correspond with the information. This makes me realize I'll either be using Final Cut or probably more After Effects to do this and might possibly need a headset with microphone. Also my friends that provide me the drawings will be credited at the end of the video.

I would also like to add some "functionality" to it, something to make it a bit more interesting. I thought I could do that by adding a bit of a "make your own" kind of deal to it. Does this sound like a good idea? I would love anyone's opinion on anything I've said.

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