lecture time! 3/10/12

We had a lecture about Crating Coherent Worlds looking at the difference of genres of games and genres in games, narrative theory and trans media narrative.  After, we watched a lecture on Ted Talks - J J Abrams: The Mystery Box.  J J Abrams was a writer of lost and talked us through the Mystery box and his creative process. It was a very interesting talk!  We made notes on how he presents and what he talks about.  Here are my notes on how he delivers his presentation:

• In the Introduction his first line is a joke
• Uses lots of hand gestures - animated
• He is always in the center of the space if he moves to the side to his laptop he always moves back to the middle
• Eye contact with the whole audience, not just straight ahead
• Has jokes including family jokes- relate-able to the audience, audience connects with speaker and makes them feel more at ease
• Not up-tight professional but not casual either, he is very open
• Physical items to show his points, provides a visual for the audience to link with

Here are my notes on the content of his presentation:

• There are lots of layers in films e.e Jaws - A man in the middle of a divorce, finding himself, self struggle with a dangerous shark thrown in the mix
• What you don't tell people keeps them interested

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              Mystery box! - give your audience a running mystery box until the end?

• mystery box -> open it -> new mystery box -> another mystery box -> open one box -> another                                       mystery box
• social interaction = relate-able  e.g. aliens invade a town -> how people deal with it and interact with eachother and their struggle