OUT.OF.CLASS.

STRUCTURE::

1. Out-of-class exercise. Within your groups complete the following exercise
2. Publish your ideas on your blog
3. Present your ideas to the whole group during the next IMT lecture session on the 1 December 08.

TASK::

Each of the images below depicts a variation on the narrative of ‘Red Riding Hood’. They reveal how a narrative can be 'international, transhistorical, transcultural' (Barthes 1977, 79) and exist outside of its specific moderation by both author and reader.

In your narratives group, focus on ONE of the images below.

According to your interpretations, break the narrative of each image apart into ‘nodes’ of action/events and come up with alternative ‘interactive’ variations to this narrative of the group's own choosing. How would you be able to play with or tell an alternative story interactively?

In this picture Red Riding Hood is in bed with the wolf, so I can see these events having happened, or to happen:

• Red is surprised and tries to escape
• The Wolf tries to attack Red
• Red doesn’t realise the wolf isnt her Nan
• The Wolf has replaced her nan
• Red has just got back from somewhere

Interactivity could be through who attacks who and the outcome of that:

• The wolf could eat Red and after the lumberjack hears her screams, the wolf could possibly eat him as well.

• Red could attack the wolf and when the lumberjack enters, she could maybe attack him also thinking he is trying to hurt her.

• The lumberjack could come in kill both of them either on purpose or by accident.

Could be either of the characters to decide what happens.