Project 3 = 2 x 1 narrative

Think of a short narrative based on your own experience. This can be a description of actual events, a memory, an exaggeration, a fantasy, a combination of all of the above or something else as long as it references an experience.

Then you must portray this narrative in at least 2 different ways via digital video. Dialogue can be used,but no prerecorded or unoriginal music. Use a different approach in each narrative,

You can retell you story in many ways, such as (but not limited to),
• changing point of view
• change the result of the story
• multi channel perspective (ex. 24)
• changing the order or time frame (linear/chronological, non linear); flash back,
flashforward (ex. (Lost)
• changing the pace or sense of time passing: slow/fast, moments of reflection, recall, moments of action
• emphasizing different elements of your story
• subtracting or adding elements
• consider the Rashomon effect, the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it. A useful demonstration of the use of this principle in scientific understanding can be found in the article "The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree," by Karl Heider (American Anthropologist, March 1988, Vol. 90 No. 1, pp. 73-81).

It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.

Project is due on dvd and on the website Monday October 13th.

Some examples:
• Memento
• Time Code
• Run Lola Run