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Tell Me a Story I Can Live:
Contents

Preface Chapter One: New Paradigms for Storytelling Chapter Two: Traditional Narrative Structures Chapter Three: Technological Underpinnings of New Media Chapter Four: Interactive Story Structures Chapter Five: Other Narrative Considerations Chapter…

Tell Me a Story I Can Live:
Preface

New technologies have recently been created and are continuing to be developed which, although designed initially for faster and more convenient access to information, offer people doing creative work in…

Tell Me a Story I Can Live:
Chapter One:
New Paradigms for Storytelling

What is the meaning of it all? The simplest answer to this question is that multimedia is the bringing together of pictures, video, images, sound effects (such as a bang…

Tell me a Story I Can Live:
Chapter Two:
Traditional Narrative Structures

The beginning establishes your character within the framework of his predicament, nails down his objective, and carries the story forward to that point where Character commits himself to fight to…

Tell Me a Story I Can Live:
Chapter Three:
Technological Underpinnings of New Media

"What is Fantasy Adventure exactly? It's vicarious escape through consumerism, catharsis through consumption. It's a momentary, wild-and-crazy retreat from the world into an exotic flavor, a 'foreign' experience, some product-assisted…

Tell Me a Story I Can Live:
Chapter Four:
Interactive Story Structures

"A film should have a beginning, a middle and an end...but not necessarily in that order." - attributed to director Jean-Luc Godard Three Views of Structure Aristotle's method for analyzing…

Tell me a Story I Can Live:
Chapter Five:
Other Narrative Considerations

What about interactive movies? We regret to inform you that they're a myth. A movie, like theatre, is storytelling. Regardless of the point of view, a movie is a screenwriter's…

Tell Me a Story I Can Live:
Chapter Six:
Clever Computer Tricks

Omaha, Nebraska, August 12, 1986. Mr. Jerome Hendricks of Omaha has been awarded the Variations Prize this year for his adaptive book version of the classic movie Star Wars. Mr.…

Tell me a Story I Can Live:
Chapter Seven:
Questions and Conclusions

"The whole...world is pretending the breakthrough is in the technology...the bottleneck is really in art." - Penn Jillette Some Day, Soon... Your work day is done, you've just finished dinner…

Tell me a Story I Can Live:
Notes

NOTE: Many of the resources used for this thesis were found on electronic media, in particular the World Wide Web. References to such documents will contain much the same information…

Tell me a Story I Can Live:
Bibliography

Aladdin. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clemens. Written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rosio. Los Angeles: The Walt Disney Corporation, 1992. All That Jazz. Directed by Bob Fosse. 1979.…

I Don’t Know Art, But I Know What I Write:
Contents

Introduction Theory Laughter is Always Appropriate Trends in Screen Comedy Pop Go the Weasels: Quentin Tarantino's Use of Popular Culture A Network To Die For: 20 Years of Television Satire…