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Visionary User's Guide
Chapter 2: Designing a Visionary World
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Creating a Storyboard

 A storyboard is a plan for a media presentation, and it usually shows the basic contents and flow of the presentation. Like an application developer uses a functional specification, you use a storyboard to describe the basic features and functionality of your world.

Preparing to develop a Visionary world is similar to preparing to develop a Web site. You need to decide what to present, how much initial detail to provide, how to access more detailed information, and how to navigate to and from the scenes that make up your world. This is much like designing the flow of Web pages.

A storyboard for a Visionary world should specify the following:

You might not use all of these features in your world, but the list can help you plan it.

Your storyboard should specify the database and include a list of the tables you plan to use. Writing this list will help you organize your work. You can then spend a session creating all the data sources you need prior to creating your first scene. Alternatively, you might work with others who extract the data you need from the database tables and consolidate it on an Informix Dynamic Server database.

There are various tools you can use to create storyboards. You can sketch one using pencil and paper. You can use a presentation tool, such as PowerPoint, to create sample layouts, with supporting detail on notes pages. You can also put together Web pages to show actual jumps and navigation flow.

Use the tool that you are most comfortable with. The purpose of creating a storyboard is to outline your ideas and give yourself and others a map for how to proceed.



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