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Geoff Gaviria, Matt Gibson
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"Dead On Arrival" is going to be an interactive graphic comic with a story loosely based upon a 1940's film noir of the same name. The focus of the story is a man who is reporting his own murder, with much of it told in flashback filling in the details of before he was fatally poisoned and how he found out who did it.

The manner in which story unfolds will be interactive, with animated choice interfaces needed to be 'played' for the viewer to progress and the story will also have separate story paths which they can follow based on choices they make (the idea is, that the users imagine themselves as the protagonist, so they should make choices to try and figure out who murdered them). Viewers will also be able to view character profiles for several key characters within the narrative, where an abstract side narrative (or game) can be watched which will provide more information about that character.

In addition, a key theme of the project is to make use of the flash medium to intergrate some video, animation, music and of course interactivity to a medium which is traditionally static and linear.