Writer’s Block

Writer’s Block (http://lot23.com/play/writersblock/) is interactive flash story with little instructions and is very simple. To go through the story, simply click this little square box. Keep clicking it and the story progresses. Honestly, I am not sure why it was called writers block. It is about this white box that becomes a menu for something, but the narrator is designing it during the story. I thought the concept was for narrative was interesting though; the way the story is told through design. The ending confuses me too. The last screen is the menu saying “Ihavenothingtosay” (seen in the picture).

MindsEye

On bornmagazine.com, I found Mindseye (http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/look/), and it’s one of the most fantastic animations I've ever seen. The story is on the same level as well. It takes a poem, and adds the animations necessary to bring it to life. I wish I knew what program was used to make it. Flash? Probably. I actually bookmarked it, just so I can go back in the future to be inspired by it. I thought everything in the movie, I.e., color, motion, speed, and design, helped the poem become organic. My favorite part of the whole film is the part with the birds. I loved the bird becoming thousands of birds and flying away. If I find out how this was created, I feel like that could help me more on the path of becoming this good.

Narratives on TV

The definition of a narrative is thats a story created in a constructive format that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events. Narratives can be found anywhere, in life, books, films, music, and in other media. One form of narrative that sticks out to me is the TV show Lost. The story follows a group of survivors of a plane crash, and how their lives intertwine on an unknown island. It might seem like a simple and straight forward concept, but the narrative takes on a twist, each episode has either what they call a flashback, flashforward, or flashsideways.
The flashbacks were used as a device for the viewer to see how a characters life played out leading up to arriving on the island. Most of the time it would develop the character more, and at some points they’d show how they knowingly or unknowingly interacted with other characters prior to the crash.
Flashforwards came as a surprise to the viewer at the end of one of the seasons. Viewers were so attuned to the story being told in a flashback, that the writers were able to make the audience believe they were watching one the whole time, when it was actually what was happening in the future. This form of narrative, which was being told along side the present narrative, I had never seen before. I thought it was great to see the future and present, played at the same time.
Flashsideways came near the end of the show. This told the story of he survivors in what was thought to be a different reality, where the plane never crashed. Again, seeing both stories at the same time my sound confusing and annoying, but the way it was pulled off made the viewer want to see what happened in both.
I became a huge fan of how the narrative was told and the way it kept changing gave you the sense that the narrative was living and breathing, ever changing.