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Storytelling
Course: Storytelling > Unit 1
Lesson 3: Lesson 2: Designing attractions- Introduction to attraction design
- Story within attractions
- Exercise 1: Thrill and story
- Dark Rides
- Exercise 2: High concept
- Blue sky
- Exercise 3: Blue sky
- Storyboards
- Exercise 4: Storyboards
- Pitching ideas
- Exercise 5: Pitching
- Ride systems
- Exercise 6: Choose your ride system
- Attraction layout
- Exercise 7: Paper layout
- Ride capacity
- Exercise 8: Ride simulator
- Scale models
- Exercise 9: Scale model
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Exercise 7: Paper layout
Begin sketching out the pathway of your vehicles.
Exercise 7: Paper layout
Activity: Create a paper layout of your attraction by drawing out the track and the location of each scene in your story. Use a blank page as the space (or footprint) of your attraction. Using a pencil draw in your track and your scene locations (number your scenes from start to finish). The width of your track should be at least as wide as your finger on the printed page.
Here is an example:
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the track i could draw would remind me of willy wonks chocolate factory(13 votes)
does the ride have to start and end in the same place?(13 votes)
no it does not have to start and end in the same place(1 vote)
- My ride is a stationary ride that shows it's scenes through a screen(8 votes)
- My layout would be the ride starts at the end of the kids back seat and they throw it around the classroom. then it gets thrown out to the world.(5 votes)
- why do we need start and ending.(4 votes)
why is my teacher doing this to us(4 votes)- My building is completely hidden by greenery, but it's actually multiple stories. The short path takes up the first story, while the long path takes up multiple stories, because it's an entire book.(3 votes)
- if it is super complicated even more to do all this(2 votes)
The layout takes place within Edmund Magic's mansion, where he houses various artifacts species and objects that he has acquired from across the world. We course through each room and encounter various objects as we go all the way back to where the tour started.(2 votes)