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What is story _now_?

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Dr Troy Innocent – Guest Lecture

April 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Hi team –

You can grab my garbled notes from Troy’s lecture here, just in case you’ll find them useful. Lots and lots of interesting tidbits were raised — both in the lecture and the subsequent discussion — that I think will be useful for a lot of your projects. Also a lot of good sparks for awesome blog posts: pitch me Story Lab as micronation! Write a constitution! Design a flag!

Even if you’d not thought about game mechanics and elements of gaming before, maybe you’ve been inspired to include some of these things in order to increase player/audience interest and engagement with your projects.

The Semiotician’s Oath

April 13, 2015 / / 0 Comments

This article is an old favourite, for thinking ‘outside the box’ when it comes to story and how it should operate, and also for different ideas on where stories should come from.

Story gives humans a chance at survival.

Because of story and our willingness to guess, we achieve what most animals cannot: We pass along knowledge.

Naked and fragile, humans thrive in spite of a lack of armor or fangs because of story. All other animals must discover the world anew every generation. We iterate on each others’ knowledge.

It’s also handy as we move into our stories, and as we think about how to fracture them for different platforms.

Blog prompt

April 1, 2015 / / 0 Comments

200-500 words…

Reflect on your experience of presenting your research, and note anything you learnt from the presentations of others.

For the final 50-100 words, provide your new understanding/philosophy of what story is, based on your research.

“Agent Carter” Follow-Up Questions

March 26, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Go back over your notes from the screening, and think about the following:

  • How is the character configured in each of the separate artefacts? i.e. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011 feature film), One Shot: Agent Carter (short film), Marvel’s Agent Carter (TV show)
  • Hero’s journey – in what ways does Peggy Carter’s story adhere to Campbell’s notion of the hero’s journey? How does Carter’s story differ, and why?
  • Pushing off points both in the ‘Carterverse’, but also in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)
  • Gender roles – think of representations of women in other platforms, stories, universes. What tropes, conventions, stereotypes, are plugged into? What does the MCU do differently? How are those conventions subverted?
  • Think about the way this would have been planned – both as part of the MCU, but also in terms of character
  • Look up budgets, development, see how it was all put together

Your notes from the screening, plus this activity, should form at least one of your blog posts for this week

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