Literature review : Mark Stephen Meadows Interactive Narrative

Literature Review 
A literature review post about Mark Stephen Meadows that he discussed interactive narrative inside his written book, "Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative".

Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative - "Perspective is a critical characteristic of narrative, but there are at least two kinds of perspective:emotional (or cognitive) and dimensional(or visual)."(Meadow,2002:6)

Meadow has addressed an emerging art form that relies heavily on the role of perspective. He examined traditional narrative has tools such as foreshadowing and epiphany. The visual arts rely on point-perspective and foreshortening. Iconography and expanding menus are used in digital interactivity. All narrative that has similar aspect which they all convey perspective. Interactive narrative is the most impressive art form existing today because it combines traditional narrative with visual art and interactivity. Perspective is a critical characteristic of narrative. There are two kinds of perspective, which are emotional and dimensional. Sometimes, the dimensional perspective affects emotional perspective which putting viewer in to author’s own emotional perspective. If perspective painted are both of the author and the subject. Thus, the author was both inventing and interpreting. 

From there, this might be apply in the case study which is "Ramayana" interactive narrative website from Google Chrome Experimental project to implement the ideas of dimensional perspective and emotional perspective. The perspective in here has putting users to involve into the dimensional on what author has inventing and interpreting and create emotional perspective for users. In contras, another case study is “Wayang Authoring”. An interactive narrative in web-based that enable users to enhance their creative imagination and self-expression by authoring or modified the story of  Wayang Kulit in digitally. In this perspective, user as the author has opportunity to reinventing and reinterpreting on their own study, to create their own dimensional and emotional perspective.

Reference

       Meadows, M. (2002). Pause & Effect : The Art of Interactive Narrative. United States: New Riders.