CTIN 544 Experiments in Interactivity - USC Interactive Media Division
CTIN 544 Experiments in Interactivity - USC Interactive Media Division
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<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Introduction
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Narrative Structure:
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Narrative Structure:<br />
1. Can be translated <strong>in</strong>to different media
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Narrative Structure:<br />
1. Can be translated <strong>in</strong>to different media<br />
2. Consists of two <strong>in</strong>dependent layers<br />
• Events that happened (story)<br />
• The tell<strong>in</strong>g of the events (discourse)
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Double time structur<strong>in</strong>g:
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Double time structur<strong>in</strong>g:<br />
1. Story time (the order the events happened)
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Double time structur<strong>in</strong>g:<br />
1. Story time (the order the events happened)<br />
2. Discourse time (the order the events are told)
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: A Day <strong>in</strong> the Country<br />
Novel by Guy de Maupassant:<br />
“For five months they had been talk<strong>in</strong>g about go<strong>in</strong>g out<br />
to lunch <strong>in</strong> some country restaurant… They had risen<br />
very early that morn<strong>in</strong>g. M. Dufour had borrowed the<br />
milkman’s cart and drove himself.”
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: A Day <strong>in</strong> the Country<br />
Novel by Guy de Maupassant:<br />
“…it [the cart] had a roof supported by four iron posts<br />
to which were attached curta<strong>in</strong>s, which were raised so<br />
that they could see the countryside.”
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: A Day <strong>in</strong> the Country<br />
A film by Jean Renoir, 1936<br />
Based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant
Jean Renoir: A Day <strong>in</strong> the Country. 1936
Jean Renoir: A Day <strong>in</strong> the Country. 1936
Jean Renoir: A Day <strong>in</strong> the Country. 1936
Jean Renoir: A Day <strong>in</strong> the Country. 1936
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: The Matrix<br />
A film by Larry and Andy Wachowsky, 1999<br />
“Bullet Time”
L. And A. Wachowsky: The Matrix. 1999
L. And A. Wachowsky: The Matrix. 1999
L. And A. Wachowsky: The Matrix. 1999
L. And A. Wachowsky: The Matrix. 1999
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: The Man with the Movie Camera<br />
A film by Dziga Vertov, 1929
D. Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera. 1929
D. Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera. 1929
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: Virtual Environment<br />
Myst 5 - End of Ages
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: Man with the Movie Camera 2008<br />
A project by Perry Bard, s<strong>in</strong>ce 2007
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: Man with the Movie Camera 2008
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Example: Man with the Movie Camera 2008
<strong>CTIN</strong> 534 <strong>Experiments</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Interactivity</strong><br />
Literature:<br />
Seymour Chatman: Story and Discourse, Cornell University, 1978<br />
W.J.T. Mitchell: On Narrative, University of Chicago Press, 1980<br />
Rudolph Arnheim: Film as Art, University of California Press, 1957<br />
Ian Bogost: Unit Operations, MIT Press, 2006<br />
Borries, Walz, Böttger: Space Time Play, Boston, 2007