1. VA2440 Class 9 Interactive Narratives

2. Topics Simple studies of narrative What is interactivity in narrative? Interactive narrative in the past Interactive narrative in the present Some interesting examples

3. Narrative Story Text / discourse Narration

4. Time Story time Narrative time Real time Order, duration, frequency

5. Element Events Plot Causality

6. Development Exposition / establishment Complication Climax Conflict Dénouement

7. Interest Suspense Surprise

8. Reason Willing suspension of disbelief Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9. Roles Author Narrator Characters Readers

10. Roles Author Narrator Characters Readers

11. Interactivity What will be the involvement of interactivity?

12. Classical literature The Life and Opinions of TristramShandy 1759 Laurence Sterne

13. Classical literature Role of the narrator, Narrating as performance, Reflexive narrating / writing, Dramatic presentation of the act of writing

14. Classical literature I am this month one whole year older that I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume – and no farther than to my first day’s life – ‘tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing … I am just thrown so many volumes back … as at this rate I should just live 364 times faster than I should write – It must follow, an’ please your worships, that the more I write, the more I shall have to write – and consequently, the more your worships read, the more your worships will have to read. (207)

15. Modern literature Rayuela (Hopscotch) 1963 Julio Cortázar

16. Modern literature Non-linear reading Hypertext fiction

17. Modern literature

18. Modern literature

19. Interactive theatre Augusto Boal Forum Theatre Legislative Theatre

20. Legislative theatre

21. Chelsea Girl – Andy Warhol

22. Time code – Mike Figgis

23. Run Lola Run – Tom Tykwer

24. Run Lola Run – Tom Tykwer

25. The TulseLuper Suitcases - Peter Greenaway

26. The TulseLuper Suitcases - Peter Greenaway

27. I’m your man – Bob Bejan

28. I’m your man – Bob Bejan

29. Sonata – Grahame Weibren

30. The Bid – The Party

31. The Bid – The Party

32. Soft Cinema – Lev Manovich

33. Machinima

34. Machinima