Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Blognotes on 28/02

Narrating is a synonym for story telling. Story telling is the oldest media. Narrative has a free ordering of elements.

Cinema and novel follow the same pattern - there's one narrative chosen. In films is tradition of making different versions for the film for distribution (director's cut, etc.).

A fabula is the chronological reconstruction of all the events of a nonchronological plot in a film (In contrast to syuzhet). ex: Pulp Fiction, Citizen Kane. (It always have to be linear.)

There is no neutral storytelling. There are value choices (taking sides).

Montage is in every story - every video, text, etc.

Data - A pile of papers on desk can not be database, as it's not indexed.

Narrative can be viewed as a 1D (one-dimensional) projection.

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