Re: [-empyre-] Re: some questions about vogs

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 19:35 -0300 20/6/02, Nemo Nox wrote:
> I very much prefer movies as a narrative form than as
> a wildly experimental medium. I mentioned Hitchcock,
> but it could have been Wilder, Mankiewicz, AlmodÛvar,
> Kasdan or many others. But never Godard or Von Trier.
> Just my personal taste.

yeah, i'm probably the same, and one of the things i'm trying to do
in some vogs is find some existing narrative content and then
reworking it. i've got one project like this at the moment but it
isn't online.

i'll probably refer to it in a different email in response to a good
question and problem you describe.

an issue in interactive media in general is that popular narrative
pleasure appears to be strongly tied to various experiences and ideas
of closure (computer games participate in this very strongly and is
why games probably work better at a popular level than interactive
narrative). in real multilinear work closure tends only to happen in
rather abstract and formalist ways. and so in interactive video a
major issue for a 'compelling' narrative (hitchcock rather than
godard perhaps) is this issue of narrative coherence and closure.

dont' have answers, just problems there, and would be very interested
in what others think about multilinear narrative and narrative
pleasure.

cheers
adrian miles
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