WEEK 12

Final Crit

In Week 12, we focused on structuring the experience by completing the event list and developing an initial storyboard. Rather than introducing new content, this week was dedicated to organising our existing spaces, narrative ideas, and roles into a clear and coherent experiential flow.

After building and testing the wedding environment in previous weeks, we realised that a complete spatial setup alone does not automatically produce a narrative experience. The event list became a key tool for bridging space and storytelling. By mapping the experience step by step, we broke the wedding into a sequence of experiential events, focusing on what the participant perceives at each moment rather than on traditional plot progression.

These events were defined by changes in position, attention, role, and spatial function—for example, moments of arrival, waiting, observation, transition, and ceremony. This approach helped us understand the experience as a progression of embodied states rather than a continuous narrative scene, making the structure more suitable for an XR context.

Following the completion of the event list, we translated these events into a storyboard. Storyboarding allowed us to visualise each event from the participant’s perspective, clarifying camera position, viewing direction, and spatial relationships. This step was essential in testing whether the event list worked not only conceptually, but also visually and experientially.

Through storyboarding, several issues became more apparent. Some events that seemed important in the event list lacked visual distinction when drawn, while others played a more significant role in pacing and transition than initially expected. This process highlighted the importance of rhythm and continuity across the experience, especially in relation to movement between spaces.

By combining the event list with storyboarding, we developed a workflow that prioritised experiential clarity over narrative complexity. This method helped us evaluate which moments were essential to the participant’s journey and which could be simplified, merged, or removed.