This interactive comic project, I believe, consists of three parts. The first is the plot, the second is the collection of assets, the third and last is the assembling of all pieces and coding.
First, I came up with this story based on my experience of playing the piano for over a decade. The story is a tragedy, which makes it more melodramatic. And then I wrote a script based on my thoughts.
Second, I drew some simple comic pictures by hand in paper, only with the two main characters and the pianos and dialogue to make the scene more explicit. My partner found the piano pieces online as well.
Finally, we worked on the coding. It consists of a title page ‘ lacrimosa’, a scrolling page and a flipping animation, as well as the piano background.
Not everything went exactly as we planned. The comic project is after all not a movie production, so my script was a bit too long and flowery. We went into some problems when coding as well, so we googled online to study new ways of adapting html, css and javascript. But overall, the result exceeds expectations and the process was quite fun.
