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Immersive Design Workshop: A Script Doctor before the first line
An immersive project almost always starts with three lines of enthusiasm and a blank page. The story exists, vaguely. The rest—where the viewer looks, what they can do, what happens when they turn their head—will come later, and often too late: in a headset, the viewer looks wherever they like, and the scene sometimes plays out behind their back. The Immersive Design Workshop is the micro-application of the Script 360 ecosystem that deals with these questions before you write a single scene.
A script doctor driven by Gemini
A script doctor is an adviser who looks at your first ideas and helps you:
- put them in order, and in the right order;
- structure them;
- improve them;
- refine them;
- clarify them.
Here, that role is played by an AI working with the Gemini API. You paste your Google API key into the field at the top of the page, with a link to the page where you get one and a tutorial video right next to it; the tool then reloads it from its local save.
The AI goes through your notes, sorts them, points out the gaps and flags what gets forgotten. The magic button is no use here: the analysis works on what you have written, field by field, so the more precise you are, the more material it has, and the more useful results you get.
Ten exercises, plus a free project
The Workshop belongs to the educational area of the ecosystem and is designed for learning. It opens with ten exercises, each built around a theme:
- psychological drama;
- fantasy and mythology;
- sound journey, an audio-only experience;
- historical fiction;
- library of lost memories;
- poetic experience;
- immersive and extended theatre;
- adventure and exploration;
- arts and sound creation;
- poetic augmented-reality experience.
After those comes a free project for your own personal work.
Eight fields, the same everywhere
Each exercise asks the same questions in the same order, with a different theme:
- Premise
- Notes and intended genre(s)
- Synopsis and structure
- Fixed narrative cues
- Animated narrative cues
- Narractivity, connected to the Narrative Counterpoint Viewer and the subject of a forthcoming article
- VR, AR, or dome constraints
The last five fields are more technical: you can note your own ideas there or ask the AI for proposals.
One Evaluate button per field
The fields are separate, and each has its own Evaluate button. You can analyse the premise alone, then return several times to the animated cues without touching the rest. The fields “talk” to one another: they can see the analysis of neighbouring fields and respond accordingly. The more information you provide and the more you evaluate it, the richer the answers become. Each field also supports microphone dictation: speak your ideas freely, and the AI will sort, reevaluate, and analyse them. After reading its suggestions, rewrite an improved version in the same field, with your own edits and/or those from the AI.
Leave with a working document
At the end, you can save your work as a .doc file that opens in Word. The text can feed a preparation pack, the screenplay itself, or Script 360 prompts for brainstorming and story structure.
Learning
If you are a trainer, teacher, or student, a button at the end triggers an overall assessment with a grade, and a quiz on immersive content completes the learning path.
For your own training, a training pack plus an annual subscription is available. Schools and universities, Contact me.