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.

NARRATIVES.BRIEF.08.09.

A new brief has reared it's ugly head.

The Brief

Choose a well-known fairy or folk story as the starting point for conceiving an interactive narrative, which you will develop, script, design and produce. Your final story may wind up entirely different from the original tale, but in your story development plan, you must be able explain what were the origins of the idea and how this eveloved to the final story.

For example, the tale of Goldilocks could be used as a metaphor for a modern day story about a burglary whereby the perpetrator breaks in to a house. Three stages during the burglary are revealed through a combination of gameplay and interactive narrative choices such that the burglar either gets caught or escapes with his loot.

During the workshops you will be introduced to video and audio skills, xhtml, and also PHP scripting which will open the further possibility of building in choices and variables into your narrative flow.

The interactive elements should make use of a wide variety of media, and include in particular, the use of video and audio. Creative use of sound will be especially well received – for example live sound may be used within video clips, but sound an also be used independently (e.g. music, effects, atmospheres), and in fact may be a key factor in the narrative itself.

Develop an idea and an approach to your group solution and create a finished xhtml/php website which demonstrates your narrative idea.

this sounds interesting though, to retell a fairytale through an interactive medium, lots of possibilities im seeing. a list of fairytales:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fairy_tales

NARATIVE.

nar⋅ra⋅tive

–noun

1. a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
2. a book, literary work, etc., containing such a story.