Week5: Reflect on the presentation –NEW DIRECTION IN NARRATIVE

In the week 5, the presentation topic is about the interactive and immerse. The presenters are presenting the information about the interactive and immerse narrative really clearly and extent precisely. However,in my opinion, they should bring more eye contact with the audiences that would be better.

The influences of the interactive narrative of movies and games are getting close to each other, especially in the presenting way and technology part. “Interactive  narrative is a form of digital interactive experience in which users create or influence a dramatic storyline through actions, either by assuming the role of a character in a fictional virtual world, issuing commands to computer-controlled characters, or directly manipulating the fictional world state”(Riedl & Bulitko 2013,p1)

Bucher(2017,p161)“With VR, this incident might actually be the viewer finding themselves in immersed virtual space, especially in a first-person experience.” In 2005, I was going to visiting an immersive show named “raining house” which was created by Collaborative Studio Random International. These artists actively applied new technologies into their works which are the invention of the artwork, the immersive narrative space “ranging house” allowing the artistic work directly interact with the participants, and to reflect and create unforgettable immersive experiences to them. Therefore, immersive narratives are not only just visual art to the audience. An activity that includes rich sensory experiences and rich cognitive experiences can create the most entertaining flow of the mind. The immersive art form can be simply attributed to the “audience into the works of art” and the “interaction with it” this two conditions that involve each other. Furthermore, VR also is an impressive technique to the society, It presents the real feeling to the participants.

(raining house)

 

 

Refrences list:

1:Riedl, M. O., & Bulitko, V. (2013). Interactive narrative: An intelligent systems approach. AI Magazine, 34(1), 67-77. Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/docview/1350237773?accountid=13552

2: Bucher, John. Storytelling for Virtual Reality : Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/detail.action?docID=4906521.

3:http://www.artzip.org/random-international

Week9: Reflect on the presentation –NEW DIRECTION IN NARRATIVE

During my Assessment Task 2 pitch presentation, my topic is “Daily recipe for overseas students in Melbourne” which was filmed to guide people who study in Melbourne how to faster cook their daily meal and also provide the route of the purchase’ location for the audiences.

In my presentation my the first disadvantages is I am not confident about my topic. this is because everybody in the class presented their topic in high quality and I am the last one to present mine. My topic of the “Daily recipe for overseas students in Melbourne” is quite boring compared to the other classmates. At the next time, I should learn from my classmates, and trying to explore more idea about the media interactive. Everything should be prepared and practice before presented to the audiences. Trying to exchange the ideas with other people and receive their opinions about the project which I am doing as well.

In the three minutes of the presentation, one is the fiction story the “Passion of the Heist Story” and the other one is documentary web series named   “A new place I call home”give me a deep impression. Firstly, they are making a wonderful powerpoint every content of the slide was connecting and during their speech, they are really confident to present their project, which is the main part I should learn from them. Moreover, in terms of the content of the “Passion of the Heist Story”  are really interesting, the story weaves between characters and demonstrates relationships through the interconnecting encounters in scenes as the story unfolds.  “A new place I call home” which was presented by Nada. The content is easy to understand and also similar to my project “Daily recipe for overseas students in Melbourne” which are also about the cooking. However, for the different audiences. and the content of her project is more precision.

Week4: Reflect on the presentation –NEW DIRECTION IN NARRATIVE

In the week 4 presentation is about the “Database Narrative”, which is linear narrative and non-linear narrative. Linear narrative is about story develops by selecting scenes to form a given collection. The non-linear narrative that was created by various ways of structuring a set of data. Furthermore, Manovich’s  5 principles of database narrative which are numerical coding, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding.

Nowadays, The traditional image narrative encounters new forms of media that are based on electronic technology, information technology, and network technology, and will inevitably produce new changes and new artistic standards. Those changes are following the rapid development of new technology like cloud data, which are different with the traditional filming.

After their presentation, I have realized that database narrative is based on those certain principles. The subject and content determine the characteristics of database information and content. In addition, choose the different database content to reorganize, select, grouping and sort could create a new form and version. Moreover, the advantage of the database is that new entries can be added to the content anytime. These new entries will immediately establish links and connect with the other items of the database, and become an integral part of the database.  In their presentation, they have explained that rhizome is a philosophical concept applied in various forms of creativity. The structure has been described as a web-like, non-linear structure. Rhizomes are each unique by nature and they have a decentralized structure. As a result, the structure of the art of database narrative story is flexible and also develop a new version story linear or nonlinear narrative stories.

They did very well on the explanation the database narrative, and they have clear communication of ideas to the audiences, share really useful information to use. And then they also give a good video example to illustrate they’re speaking “Frogs and Friends” and “universe within “.

 

 

 

Week3: Reflect on the presentation –NEW DIRECTION IN NARRATIVE

In the week 3 class, Kevin and Mechagen presented a wonderful presentation. In their presentation, they are really good at asking questions and interaction to the audiences, which leaves a favorable impression on everyone. Furthermore, in the part of the content, they have a really clear mind to show to our classmates and both of them are really confident which are making their speech great. The key point of this presentation are: Linear, Nonlinear.on the other hand, something that they should improve which does not read the powerpoint slide and trying to summarize that information

As for the content, I subsequently understand and engage with that narrative structure during their speech. variable plot structures which are Linear and Nonlinear Plot Structures, and Nonlinear structure which is divided into three classes like Branching, Multilinear, and Emergent stories.

In terms of the movie, the linear narrative is mainly a single linear, which can contain flashbacks, interjections and other narrative means as well. Typical examples are “12 Angry Men” and “The Godfather 1.” in the other words as for the videogram, their narratives sequences and causation will move from the beginning to the end by following the background of the story structure.

Nonlinear story structures: The incomplete narrative with single clues including breaks, omissions, flashbacks, and flashovers. For example, “Memento” which was directed by Christopher Nolan, as well as Gaspar Noé filmed “Irréversible”, they were utilized a gradual backtracking story to divide the entire story into paragraphs and then flashback. Although the stories content is little confusing, it still meets a nonlinear single narrative structure.

That information really helps me to develop my proposal idea. In my opinion, I would like to do the linear narrative story structure’s to create a story. It might be an online documentary story interactive video which will be based on a story or project for the normal student.

 

Week 2: • Discuss an existing film -new diraction in nerrative.

The director named Christopher Nolan filmed “Inception” in the year of 2010. It is an American commercial type of science-fiction movie which combines the aesthetics of art and the technology. The film allows the protagonist to lead the audience in the dream and the real world. The design of this combination of fiction and reality design may cause confusion to the audience. Therefore, the director created many elements for the film to distinguish between the dream and the non-dream state.

In order to demonstrate the grandness of the scene in the dream, the director used lens operation, slowly pushing and pulling to make the scene even more magnificent. At the moment when the dream was destroyed, the building in the dream was destroyed, the gravel slammed down and overwhelmed the dust. The director used a slow motion to highlight the power of the air flow and create a greater visual.

Moreover, the director, Nolan used different music in different situations and rightfully enhanced the effect of the film. It not only portrayed the character’s psychology well but also played a very important role in the expression of characters and emotions.The director seems to deliberately magnify the breathing of the character, which directly oppresses the audience’s heart and auditory nerves, creating a strong sense of tension.

In the ending of the “inception”, the gyro still maintaining swayed, which make audiences confuse at the end of story. In my opinion, I want the gyro stop. However, it can also give another explanation: the protagonist was plagued by his wife’s death. Even if he did not dare to face the faces of his children in dreams, he used this whole story to implant consciousness in his brain. His wife and children were relieved from their troubles and eventually returned home in a dream.