Personal Research Project

Recently i have gone through and organised my research into specific areas ready to start my first draft of the paper. I'm behind my schedule at the moment but i've created a calendar that pops up every time i turn my computer on to keep me focused. All green, blue and red blocks telling me what to do and when.

Does the relationship between narrative and reality effect the audience's understanding of the arm form and how important is the value of narrativity in the representation of reality ?

My categories are as follows :

Television/Interactive Cinema :

Pop Idol
Interactive Cinema History
Tony Sherman's Dracula Unleashed
"Culture without Context" - American television consumption
Sex, Desire & Power - MTV Portrayal of women
Samuel Beckett Plot theory
"Blurred world of television"
MTV Influence in editing
Monty Python's dip in and out of character & audience interaction


Computer Games :

Writing interactive media using the rules of the english language
Designers use of the 'verb set'
Writing non-linear narrative
Ancient sources in relation to contemporary linear stories
Case study : Nancy Drew computer games
Storytelling in games
Full Control in computer games ie : Grand Theft Auto
Computer games to the silver screen

English literature :

Lawrence Stern, William Boroughs, Mark Z. Danielewski
James Joyce - Founder of the hypertext.
Hemmingway & Faulkner in relation to interactive text.
Aristole structure theory
Samuel Beckett - 'Dream state'
"Trappings of the novel" - Robbe-Gillet
Jean Baudrillard - Reality of the gulf war

Drama, Theatre & Arts :

Luigi Piranello - Six characters in search of an author
John Krizane - Tamara
Peter Brook - Experiments in reality
Herzog & Wenders - Influence on MTV
"Pulling film closer to theatre"
Vertov, Bunuel, Dali - Reaction against narrative

Film :

Rashomon
Memento
Dr. Linda Segar - Film & Narrative structure
Classical linear narrative
Cremaster Cycle
"In the digital age, what is real ?"
Jean Luc Goddard
Robert Altman - Nasville
Hyperdrama
Louis Lumiere & George Melies
Creating reality
Dardonne Brothers
Silent Period

Now all i've got to do is structure it into an essay......

EASY !