This website has been created for education purpose only it is not in anyway intended to make a profit. Module of Authorship & Interaction for the BA (Hons) Graphics & Comunication Design

Jasper Shiner (c) 2013

Documentation and Exploration MGRA 501.1

Narrative - spoken or written content that connects events.
Fundamentally there are two types of narrative.
- Linear: where all events are chronological and can be read in a single pathway.
- Non- Linear: Non-linear, disjointed or disrupted narrative are when events are out of sync and not in a chronological.

In the Non-linear narrative workshop we were to develop a short story per group, each group was formed of approximately five people. This story would have multiple events but was to me non-linear, so the reader could choose the direction in which they want to travel through the story, allowing each individual to have a different experience to the next. In our group we decided to create the story of a duck.(Alan) We each went away and developed a scene. These scenes would be recreated on our 'hotglue' pages an linked to the next. The scene i developed was 'falling in love. A scene where the duck (Alan) and a giraffe fall in love.

Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films have been characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, and an aestheticization (art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts) of violence that often results in the exhibition of neo-noir characteristics.

Quentin Tarantino talks about non-linear narrative in his film 'True Romance' - warner bros.

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Arguably Tarantino's best and most well known film, Pulp Fiction is a great example of non-linear and parallel storytelling. It combines the story of a pair of hitmen, a has been boxer, a mob boss and two lovers robbing a store.

In this case how he has structured the film or originally did so to give power to the audience in a gradual motion.

This diagram shows how there can be multiple pathways within a narrative, there can be a baseline structure (running throughout the core) but points at which you can split and navigate for yourself, this in turn telling a different part of the story allowing the user to construct their own story within boundaries.
Storyline structures come in many shapes and sizes, the can navigate chronologically or out of sync, can be close like with this example, or open ended ( Not restrained by definite limits, restrictions, or structure.)