This interactive web-based reading was interesting as it summarised and provided me with a lot of information about networks and interactive documentary-making – which I’m not entirely convinced about.

Main points I took from the reading were:

• how he begins the journey of ‘plotting the database’ with a reference to some words said by Jerome McGanne. McGanne states that interfaces are critical to the functional operation of databases and promotes the importance of ‘free play’ when interacting with an interface, for the purposes of audience occupation.
• Luers then continues to reflect on ‘how plot and interface perform similar roles of providing interaction and cohesion in their respective domains (time and space)’.
• Luers talks about the importance of entry points. Mostly how ‘entry points can establish narrative frames, metaphors for navigation , genre motifs, present views of data sets, describe elements of plot, character, setting or theme – or withhold any and all of these.’
• This leads to the desire for interaction, therefore it is important to encapsulate your audience from the beginning, that’s what will keep them clicking their way though your work
• A number of previous interactive documentaries made by all sorts of creators: Whale Hunt, Constellations, More on these to come in a later post.