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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

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