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By Margaret Mackey
Tales are instructed at the present time via many codecs and younger interpreters deliver multimedia adventure to endure on each narrative layout they come across. during this ebook, twelve youth learn a singular, watch a movie and play a game from commencing to finish. Their responses tell a brand new framework of up to date issues of narrative comprehension.
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No, I think that the director – he or she – they’re just using the characters to get across like, bigger points like, a bigger story and I don’t really think the characters themselves really mean a whole lot, but I think the main message is what – They’re all kind of pawns in the big game. Yeah exactly. Of the 12 participants, Adam is the only one to blame the subtitles for specifically interfering with his comprehension, and Sandra is quick to disagree. It would be foolish to conclude from this observation that the subtitles did not affect response, but it would seem arguable that, overall, they were not at the forefront of the viewers’ attention.
2) Bizzocchi lists the elements that invite immediacy: The solid continuity within the dramatic scenes makes it easy to follow the flow and the emotional arc of the story. The design of the narrative also affords an early engagement. At a high level the story is a standard quest/love story. As such it presents us with romantic 28 Narrative Pleasures love, challenge, danger, and suspense – all leavened with a sense of wit and humour. The characters are human enough to relate to, and idiosyncratic enough to maintain our interest.
These three hybrid stories all make use of conventions from other media to draw attention to the surface features of storytelling in ways that might be said to ‘bounce’ readers/viewers/players out of the engrossed moment into paying attention to how the story is being constructed. By choosing these particular titles, I made room for different stances towards the story that can be described in terms of immediacy and hypermediacy. For several reasons, I chose texts that make a point of offering the potential for oscillating among different perspectives.