Sunday, March 23, 2008

Interactive Interface Design

THEME:
THE STORY OF NIAN
I briefly mention about the design concept. I decided to used red as the main colour, because the character "Nian" is sensitive and afraid of the red colour, there are related and link to my theme concept. I hide the navigation system on the top center side, u just simply a click on it, the navigation will pop out and the background will become blur effects to make the navigation icons more obvious. Thats all my simply talk about my design. Following is about the story of my theme.


Loading Page
Main Page
Story Page
Story Navigation
Characters Page
Character Selected
Characters Navigation
Downloads Page
Downloads Navigation
Story Concept:
Long ago, there was a monster called Nian. It was born to be very ugly and ferocious, which looked like either dragons or unicorns. On the first and the 15th of each lunar month, the monster would come down from the mountains to hunt people. So people were very much afraid of it and locked their doors early before sunset on the days of its coming.

There lived an old wise man in a village. He thought it was the panic in people that made the monster so bold and furious. Thus the old man asked people to organize together and to conquer the monster by means of beating drums and gongs, burning bamboo, and lighting fireworks in purpose of making large noises to threaten the hateful monster. When he told people about the idea, everybody agreed on it.

At a moonless and freezing cold night, the monster, Nian, appeared again. The moment it opened its mouth at people, burst out the frightening noises and fire made by people, and wherever the monster went, it was forced to back off by the terrible noises. The monster couldn't stop running until he fell down with exhaustion. Then people jumped up and killed the evil monster. Savage as the monster was, he lost in the end under the efforts from the cooperation of people.

Since then, people have kept the tradition by beating drums and gongs, and lighting fireworks at the coldest day in winter to drive the imagined monsters away and to celebrate the victory over it. Today, Nian refers to the New Year's day or the Spring Festival.

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Posted by Kevin Soo at 4:50 PM