Rethinking how we tell stories online
we should now have an understanding of:
- the form that were working in
- the content were producing
- how we form meaning
storytelling – ideas
- an event, incident, circumstances
- a reality that is being constructed
- something that tries to prove or demonstrate a truth (Robert McKee)
Catharsis – emotional identification for audience in comparison to Flow – a sense of is lost from the audience it describes the state of total engagement that was noticed when people are fully engaged in a craft or sport etc. (psychologist Mihaly)
This weeks reading by Douglas of storytelling through hypertexts, this term ludic is useful, its what we aim for when telling stories that we become so immersed that we get lost in it.
The way we approach these forms has changed and the platforms often shape the story and influence us and the way we approach media texts.
- Form: Multimedia.
- Form: Transmedia (storytelling across multiple platforms – tv show on Foxtel and then on a streaming service etc.) perhaps an interactive component of these texts. It’s a tangible experience where we click and interact with narrative creates a new aesthetic. Will readers interpret the text differently?
- Form: Games
- Form: Episodic
Something interesting that was mentioned is how some children are taking real books and swiping the pages in thinking that thats how you turn the page, illustrating just how much they have been influenced by modern technology and iPads.
