Can spectators become co-authors in the process of a story narrative

• Main Author: Enning, Tang (Author)
• Other Authors: Antonczak, Laurent (Contributor), Ho, King To (Contributor)
• Format: Others
• Published: Auckland University of Technology, 2010-02-23T21:38:54Z.
• Subjects: Story narrative; Moving image; Cinema; Animation; Spectator; Author; Perception; Co-author; Multiple screens; Thesis
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 This project explores the areas of human perception and story narrative in moving images. Engaged by the research question, "Can spectators become co-authors in the process of a story narrative?", the research focuses on exploring the co-existence and contradiction between the values of spectators and an author in a process of a narrative by developing a new potential narrative approach with multiple perspectives. I hypothesise that spectators could participate with the story narrative process as co-authors. My key method is to engage with spectators' participation within a narration (story) by displaying story fragments across multiple screens simultaneously. The potential of having a story spread across multiple screens might bring further interest to authors to re-think the notion of a spectator and tell a story with multiple perspectives in a narrative process with spectators. In order to develop this project, I will use different approaches, such as Grounded Theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1998), Data Visualisation (Tufte, 1983), Action Research (Kemmis & McTaggart, 1988) and Heuristics (Moustakas, 1990), which I will explain in further details in each chapter of my exegesis.