"For the first time on the App Store, the iFictions are coming. The issue n.1 will be free for a while. The most romantic application dedicated to women and men. 300 photographs tell a story of love and betrayal.

With the help of audio and video effects you will be totally involved in the magic world of iFiction.

Every 15 days you will have a new issue and different stories. Every iFiction is a 30 minutes long short-movie, always different and fascinating."

To celebrate the launch of Enhanced Press ® we have decided to offer the first episode of "A Separate World" for free!

Clik here to download it from the App Store.

“I will become a star” is the name of the first iFiction produced by Lancio s.r.l. and developed by Visual C. S. with the Enhanced Press technology.

It is the dream of a life for Eva. She has won a contest that allows her to be on the stage with her favourite actors.

Actually in a few days the girl wins everyone’s hearts, becoming a character that the public sees like some sort of Cinderella that is achivieng its lifelong dream. But while everyone seems to like her, included Stewart and Paul, the male characters of the movie, Eva has a lot of troubles with Rebecca, the female star, who has it in for her. In part because day by day Eva becomes the protagonist and main female character of the movie; and also because Stewart, who has a relation with Rebecca, seems charmed by the freshness and beauty of the young girl.

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With the words Enhanced Comic we identify all of the products that have a strong comic-like characterization but that have been developed with our graphical engine.

The Enhanced Comic contains all the multimedia features of all our productions. Sounds, movies, hidden pictures, push notification news and multilanguage system enrich the classic vignettes of traditional comic strips.

Watch an example of how an Enhanced Comic product works:

A Separate World is a 'prototype' of comic specifically developed for iPhone.

Calling it a simple comic is wrong because our product is made of pictures, audio and video effects, and interactive elements like objects or descriptions hidden inside the scenes. This application should be enjoyed with the use of headphones; as well as navigating across the single scenes we have created a mix of pictures, music and animated sequences that make the reading of the story more involving compared to a traditional comic; in fact, a graphic engine and a management software allow us to fill the comic with the features that a multimedia product should always have:

• volume control
• adding bookmark with comments
• dynamic page skip
• web connectivity for news and informations

The plot has a cinematic intro, with an opening cut-scene that gives just a guess on the mistery that will be unveiled during the story. A Separate World strikes immediately for the high quality of the drawings (that will certainly be appreciated by the fan of manga and comics), for the animated sequences, the use of cinematic editing and filming techniques, and for the dynamic soundtrack that underlines the development of the story.

Two buttons on the lower side of the screen allow you to look through the boards back and forth (you can decide exactly when, like in a traditional printed comic), while sometimes an animated sequence will start and will make use of special effects, like fade-out, zoom-in, light and volumetric effects really similar to the ones used for the latest videogames.

So, “A Separate World” is a great example of how new technologies can be used in a creative way and it takes the interactivity of traditional e-books to a higher level, as high as the artistic content of the product. We would like to remark, in fact, that you will be astonished not only by the techniques we have chosen for the development of the comic, but also from how those techniques have been used.

Thanks to the touch-sensitive screen and to the features offered by the iPhone and iPod Touch, A Separate World achieves the goal always pursued by literature: involve the reader in a so believable way that he feels like an integral part of the story.

The reader-player can thus interact with elements inside the sketches, he can think and make his guess on the events, and he can go back to discover, simply with a dab of the finger, unnoticed nuances or apparently secondary but fundamental details.

In other words, it's not the involvement offered by the mix of pictures, movies and music, but the way in which the technique has been used to convince us to say that we have created a truly “authorial product”.

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