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The first game I played was "Adventure." This game was extremely difficult for me. Once I learned how to kill the duck (and at this i was shocked - was it even a duck?), but the game at first seemed very simple. This simplicity must have come from the simple "look" of the game; the main character, who you were, was a tiny green dot, or whatever color dot you were. I understood the goal of the game was to unlock the gates with the keys (their color coordinating). I played this game, many times, but never got past the second gate.
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Facade was incredibly interactive. Each time I played, I pushed the limits of Trip and Grace, putting them in these awkward situations. I became impatient when they began arguing and I straight up told them to get a divorce - they both stared at me and nervously laughed. So I kissed Trip right after and then they looked at each other and Trip said I needed to leave. As I was being pushed out the door I professed my love for Trip - but this had no affect.
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I went to Eliza to discuss how I thought I did on my political science test this morning. I told her I didn't think I did too well, and she kept asking me why. This frustrated me, as I more wanted advice than questions. I wrote for about ten lines, trying to obtain advice from her, and failed.. so I decided for a different approach. I began to ask her questions. I didn't receive a "we're talking about you" as someone mentioned in class. But here's how a few lines of our conversation went:
Me: I hope I did well on the test.
Eliza: That's quite interesting.
Me: Why?
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Last Thursday we learned about the long history in print culture from Dr. Patrick Murray-John. Beginning a long time ago, in the 1200's, to construct a medieval manuscript, it took a lot of work. From the killing of the animal, to skinning its hide, to biding it and eventually writing the text. Before even writing the text you also had to think about what kind and size text you wanted to use, or had to use in case of the length of the story.
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During our October 23rd class, our guest speaker focused on a newer media called a mash-up. A mash-up is a combination of original source material, without the use of new components, producing a new way in which to view the old material. Looking deeper into the subject, we looked at effect mash-ups have on our political system and how mash-ups influence, or even change, our political viewpoints on issues or candidates.
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In class, our discussion about breakfast and the way in which the story was relayed, defined diegetic and mimetic in a more comprehensive way. I understand diegetic to be in a sense more explained than mimetic. Mimetic, I'm assuming has a root of the word mime, or mimic. With this, I imagine someone trying to relay a story without use of sound. Although I know mimetic can include sound, the actions used to relay the story seem more simplistic. I just imagine playing pictionary, and trying to simply guess an image related to an action.
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As I review over my class notes, I realize that last class really broke down the narratology and defined it. Story-time is when the events take place and discourse-time is how the events are related to the audience, at least that's how I interpreted it. It's funny, here I have written [flashback: killbill]. And that's exactly what I think of to remember it. Analepsis is a flashback, while prolepsis is a flash forward. What I also remember, is how the Sinking of the Lusitania has almost the same discourse and real time. Also, metalepsis is a discursive technique; lepsis coming from reading.
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Krazy Kat was filled with many narrative techniques. Metalepsis occured many times in which one scene, the characters know in advanced that the third screen is going to be black (what's that called by the way?) and then in the fourth scene one of the characters thanks the author by saying "thanks boss." Also, the characters comment on the scenery.. Like, this scenery doesn't look familiar to me, does it to you? Characters normally don't ever comment on the scenery, so it was odd to read that they were actually aware of it. Also, the imagery in this cartoon was everywhere.
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I'm still blown away by the fact that in one week, Winsor McCay went from square to rounded edges. It seems such a minor detail in the scheme of things, but as I continue reading, the rounded edges seems to make such a difference. The roundness adds a softness to the images; I believe, thus adding to the more imaginative and dreamworld (or Slumberland) effect. This is such cirtical detail, that if you're not examining the edges of the paper extremely closely, the fact is quickly overlooked.
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As I read Little Nemo, I can't help but wonder what kind of "fantasy world" I would dream into. Winsor McCay had such the imagination.. It kind of reminds me of Alice in Wonderland (my favorite movie). The creatures created are so unique. For example the wild men, or the one that Flip captures - they call the party. Also, the car that the King of the wild men drove - was made of goats! And had frogs as the horn. How creative?!
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As I read over "Vacation Time," Donald soon (with the help of class discussion) became, in my eyes, very stubborn and selfish. I had only really every watched Donald in Chip and Dale re-runs and movies. I remember specifically one episode where Donald owned an apple tree farm and Chip and Dale were constantly stealing apples. Donald became so angry, he flew his crop plane and tried to fumagate them out of his apple trees. As a duck, and I living on a farm with ducks, he doesn't fit the "duck attitude." Ducks normally are not that aggressive and keep to themselves.
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The Recent Explosion: As newer and newer forms of narrative arrive into our growing technological world, the older forms (novels, newspapers, magazines) are slowly diminishing. Not to say that the advancing technology produces a negative impact, but an impact never the less. Novels went from being printed, to on tape, to cd, to mini cd's, and now to itunes. While technology increases, it is only the natural process of the older forms of narrative to decline in production as well as popularity.
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This video game definately broke the norm. There was really no point or goal to achieve, as there are in many of today's games. The character follows the basic love story line: boy meets girl, falls in love (heart) and runs through life together until they happily die. Although there was no climax, like boy loosing girl or girl cheating on boy kind of mishap... But maybe we're all just missing the bigger picture. Maybe this game was created to show the human race how quickly we run through life, always anticipating.
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