Undoubtedly, the nonlinear narrative film has created a new filed for filmmaking. Directors represent their purpose different from the traditional narrative method through de-structure a film.
Montage is an essential and necessary technical element in nonlinear narratives, the transition of time and space, the combination of various storylines and the rhythm of plot development can be showed creatively by Montage. The narrative montage builds the storyline through combining a series shots in time or logical. For example, in the movie <Lola rennt>, the narrative montage greatly shortens the time of narration and speeds up the rhythm of the movie.
About the presentation, the most interesting thing is, they used the topic ‘Four ways to make the audience enjoy the presentation’ to run through the whole presentation, and also combine with the weekly topic to clarify the structure. They also provided some examples to explain the two main nonlinear narrative methods in their presentation. But if they can use some video footage or screen recording to elaborate it, it will be much better.
There is two general concept of my pitch. One is the combination of the social media platform and the interactive narrative. People can create not only the static content but also the short video on the different social media, such as Instagram. I can create an interactive fiction series through the tool of social media such as ‘hashtag’ ‘comment’ even the ‘forward’.
The other concept is an interactive documentary project inspired the interactive documentary <Global Lives>. Image there is a website which is an ‘Apartment’, and the people who upload their documentary of a specific topic, the website will create an animated character image for him/her based on the real person. Also, he/she will be assigned a ‘unit’ of the ‘Apartment’. The visitors, which is people in front of the computer, they can choose any unit to watch the unique documentary.
So these two concepts are really general, I will try to define and finalise the pitch through the research and practical experience.
