Final Project – Interactive PDF

You wish your life was more interesting, but  be careful what you wish for…

You are sitting at your desk studying and wishing for a more interesting life, when suddenly, you hear a noise. A portal has appeared, and it takes you to a place you’ve never been. You see a beautiful and strange looking bird, and you take a picture of it, but suddenly, it tries to attack you! You manage to escape it, while running into a few obstacles on the way, and manage to escape back home through the portal just in time. Maybe having a boring life isn’t so bad after all.

When I created the project, I wanted it to be from first person point of view, so the reader really feels like they’re going on the adventure. The reader will experience an adventure through someone else’s eyes, and will hear the person’s thoughts. but is also able to control some of the actions. I tried to make the images very surprising to be more exciting to the reader.

The story has a few morals. The main lesson is that you should appreciate your life, even if it isn’t as exciting as you want it to be. The character in this story is bored with their life and wants an adventure, but the adventure ends with them being chased by an angry bird. At the end, the character is glad to be home safely, and is thankful for their life, even if it is not so exciting. At the beginning of the story, the character says that they want to take a picture to impress everyone at home, but staying alive is obviously more important than impressing people.

Another moral in this story is not to judge a book by it’s cover. When we first encounter the bird, it looks nice, and it is the color of cotton candy, so it doesn’t look so scary. But it ends up chasing us, so clearly it is not as friendly as it looks. Another lesson is to pay attention to your surroundings. The character is almost attacked by the bird because they are paying too much attention to their Instagram post to notice that the bird was coming closer.

Midterm

In this day and age, people rely on technology for everything. Cellphones are so easily accessible that virtually everyone owns one. But with these devices constantly at our disposal, it is easy to get so immersed in the virtual world that we completely ignore our surroundings. Every day, technology is getting more and more advanced, which means that this issue of ignoring our surroundings is only going to get worse.

In the first image, I depicted a situation that is all too common. A group of friends are hanging out, but are not actually talking to each other, because they are all on their cell phones. Technology helps us connect with people, like through calling, texting, and social media, but it just as easily helps us ignore everyone around us.

The second image exaggerates the danger that constant cellphone usage is actually causing us. Although this exact situation is unlikely to happen, ignoring our surroundings to look at our phones can do a lot of damage. Walking or driving without paying attention to where we are going happens very often.

The last GIF shows where I imagine technology will go in the future. Virtual reality technology is a topic I hear discussed almost daily, and it is becoming more and more realistic. We already have augmented reality available on our phones, like with Snapchat filters, but I predict that virtual reality headsets will start becoming more popular. We will be able to walk through a bad neighborhood while wearing a virtual reality headset, and be shown images that are much nicer than our surroundings. People may start going about their everyday lives wearing a headset, and eventually, it will become the normal way of living all around the globe. If this ever happens, it means that technology has made reality completely obsolete.

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