Chapter 1....a big foundation for the rest of the semester!

Well, before reading the first chapter of the Pause and Effect book, I had a pretty small understanding or perception as to what interaction exactly was. I used to believe that interaction was that just piece in a story that enabled you to just hear or see it, but that you had no big influence on how it happened. However, what I had always referred to is what is known as opinion, and there is a big difference between the two. Giotto started to develop this theory of what he believed was the true foundation of interaction when he saw those houses shift angles as he walked closer of farther from them. From this concept he started to develop what he liked to call "perspective" and he came up with two kinds: emotional, which was more based on the person's reaction towards some emotional aspects of the pieces with perspective, and the dimensional perspective was how every single person could experience different geometry to every piece out there, but that the author always concealed some exact location for the "perfect sight." Giotto believed that these two perspectives were actually linked to each other and aided one another towards achieving a person's individual perspective. From this new development of virtual sense came two different kinds of narrative: linear and 3D. Narrative is the way in which something is told, such as a tale of a digital story, and the different kinds that may be available out there, some for actual fees, determine how much the person is able to interact with story development as to what degree. There is a very important concept in narrative, called the Freytag pyramid, in which a german writer, Gustav Freytag, developed what he thought was a good interpretation of what a story underwent, with a desis, a climax, and a denouement. Depending on what kind of story you can tell, this pyramid can be modified to suit different plots or even to skip the desis. It is spoken of in the book that there can be a very powerful relationship between narrative and image in a story, for each one can aid towards helping decipher what the other one is trying to convey, and that helps the story move on forward instead of just standing still in a frame of time. There are three main types of interaction available: input output (consists of putting some sort of narrative in, and getting a possible response in return), inside/outside (consists of how the concept of development changes when inside the skull or outside the skull), and open/closed (determines how widely available a type of interaction is.) There are four major steps involved with developing a narrative with a perspective in it: 1. observation (relates to how well a person can understand his surroundings and people's reaction to certain kinds of material), 2. exploration (the hunting for that idea that will make people want to interact with a certain kind of narrative), 3. modification (being able to modify certain components of society's response in order to create new, fresh kinds of perspectives out of people), and 4. reciprocal change (the system tries to change the reader.) Well, this is what I believe was the most important stuff from chapter 1. Please forgive me for the lateness, but I didn't go to class on thursday and got to know of this assignment at the last minute.