The Last Bell: Interactive Brain-Based Adventure Project

Task Details

Objective:
Develop an understanding of your strengths and interests by examining your unique brain function and create a project utilising dominant left OR right brain processing.

Project Options:

• Choose Your Own Adventure – Comic (Right-brain dominant, creative illustration, 2D animation, interactive comic)

• Code Club (Left-brain dominant, logical/coding project, games, website, or App)

Context:
To cater to diversity of interests, the last term begins with understanding identity in relation to brain hemispheres (Left vs Right – Logical vs Creative). Students will determine their strengths and interests, which will lead to a project requiring either:

• Coding experience (games, website, or App – dominant left brain)

• Creative illustration (interactive comic, 2D animation – dominant right brain)

Success Criteria

Task Specific Outcomes:

• Finished portfolio including a Record of Production. The portfolio should reflect:

  • Research

  • Planning

  • Progress of documentation demonstrating how the product was created using the chosen software(s)

• Completed Code Club Product – website, game, or App
  OR

• Completed Interactive Comic – illustrated with interactive elements

Learning Outcomes:

• IND5-4: Selects, justifies, and uses a range of relevant and associated materials for specific applications.

• IND5-5: Selects, interprets, and applies suitable communication techniques in the development, planning, production, and presentation of ideas and projects.

• Learning Characteristic: "I am Resilient" – ability to tolerate uncertainty.

Script for Interactive Film

Title: The Last Bell

Premise:
You stayed at school late doing homework. The power flickers out. A distorted phone call warns you that you’re not alone… Whatever is stalking you never reveals itself fully until the final wrong move.

Dark Hallway 

• You’re packing up homework.

• Lights flicker → blackout.

• Your phone rings. Footsteps echo.

Choice 1:

• A) Hide in a classroom → Scene 2A

• B) Run away → Scene 2B

• C) Answer the call → Scene 2C

Scane 2A 

• Footsteps approach. Door rattles.

Choice 2A:

• A) Crawl under seat booths → Fail Ending (Jumpscare)

• B) Sneak to the door → Scene 3A

Basement Hall

• Stairs creak. A faint laugh behind you.

Choice 2B:

• A) Take elevator → Fail Ending (Jumpscare)

• B) Take fire stairs → Scene 3A

Phone Call

• Caller whispers something menacing:

Choice 2C:

• A) Listen silently → Scene 2B

• B) Hang up → Scene 2B

• C) Ask who they are → Scene 2B

Storage Room 

• You come out of the fire exit

Choice 3A:

• A) Go into breakout room → Scene 4

• B) Hide under stack of chairs → Fail Ending (Jumpscare)

Breakout Room

• A) Don’t switch on lights → Scene 4A

• B) Switch on the lights → Fail Ending (Strangled)

Scane 4A

• You sense it immediately—someone, or something, is already in the room with you.

• The upper levels should be safer; the danger is behind you now, not ahead.

• You bolt up the staircase, heart pounding, until you reach the landing.

• Forced to make a split-second decision: right or left?

Choice:

• A) Left → Fail Ending (Disappeared)

• B) Right → Scene 5A

Scane 5A

• A) You take the train → Final Twist Ending

• B) You take the bus → Fail Ending (Disappeared)

Final Twist Ending:

• After escaping or being “released”…

• You run home, panting, thinking the nightmare is over.

• But when you arrive, your house is on fire.

• Final line (text or voiceover): “You escaped the school… but not the night.”

• Fade to black.

Project Requirements

Editing:

• Edit clips using Adobe Premiere Pro and/or After Effects.

• Ensure clips flow smoothly and maintain immersion.

• You may adapt the script slightly to enhance the experience.

Phone Call Scenes:

• Create menacing voice lines inspired by Ghostface from the Scream series.

• AI-generated voice is acceptable, or record yourself/a friend if capable.

Submission Requirements:

• Send all project files from Premiere Pro or After Effects.

• Share the Twine project.

• Include screenshots of the process for key steps with written explanations.