We have now been considering not only how technology has been innovating peoples' experiences with films, but how the ways in which people approach narrative and the ways people tell stories have been developing.
One particularly interesting example, is the idea of an interactive narrative.
Examples of this include online point and click games, in which a person views an animated film while interacting with the world, locations, items and characters (i.e. 'A Case of Crabs').
I find it interesting that I had never thought of video games in the sense of an 'interactive narrative', when that is pretty much what they are - you control a character, who experiences events and plays out a story in a visual medium.
We also looked at interactive DVDs, which blurred the lines between a film and videogame, including a narrative, the fact that it was a filmed, visual medium, shown as a video, and also several of them had multiple outcomes depending on the ways in which a person had responded to the events and the choices they had to make within the story.
I found the DVDs (most of which were students' past work,) very entertaining, and enjoyed how the fact that the medium of film had become interactive almost made you connect even more with the characters.
We have also been asked to start to think about what we want to create for our final portfolio piece, and to think of a topic on which to write our final essay about.
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