19 March 2016
Well, I found some pretty relevant material, now I have to make the connections.
One of my papers chosen focused on the importance of storytelling and their endings, how one writes their story, whether it be through a formal structured channel, with rules to abide by, or in a more carefree, more natural – dare I say it, organic – method? This was a great piece, and was by far one that cemented the meaning and relevance to having a good ending.
The next piece was about an actual example created using the interactive movie, where the audience guided the storyline by way of voting buttons mounted in their armrests. Even though it was regarded as a poorly-acted film, it still had its merits in it’s interactive theme, earning a hybrid genre of movie-video game, and earning it’s innovative place in history – I say history because it was stored on laser disks, a technology used back somewhere in the 90s.
It’s nearing midnight on a Saturday and I am still trying to work out and decide on who to use as my 2 practitioners (the two above satisfied the academic sources). I was given the OK to use Roger Ebert, a famous (and highly regarded?) movie critic, so I’m good for one of them, but I’m trying to work out who to use for the next one. There’s a group in Massachusetts Institute of Technology who developed a full digital movie which uses the multi-threaded narrative idea, and I found a thesis on it, but it’s 93 pages long, and I simply do not have the time to read the whole thing before Wednesday and then write about it. I’ll have a stab at it if I can, because my only other practitioner option to date is an Australian filmmaker who created a “choose your own adventure” style online digi movie which contained 3 different endings. Problem is, the site it featured on doesn’t seem to be active any more, and all i can find is profile pages of the filmmaker on other sites and one of what I think is his production company.
Time is of the essence. If I had another day or two to have the time to read, I would be good…
Relle out.