#multivocality

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this is an experiment of the game, where viewer defines the narrative structure and form by pulling out the cards.

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MULTIVOCAL NARRATIVES

how would you explain your research question to a child.

Our world contains a lot of stories. Imagine fairy-tales, but also a story about how you went to see a friend and what happened on the way. Each story has a beginning, middle (high point) and an end. What if we imagine it to be a high tower? Tower which we build with cubes. What will happen if we put those cubes into a different order? That we call “constructed narratives”. And - “non-linear narratives”

What if we rotate the sides of the cubes? Make different versions of the tower, using the points of view of different characters? That we call “multivocal narratives”.

And what if we offer the viewer to construct the blocks with us? That we can call “interactive narratives”.

And how to use all these tools to tell the stories in the best way?..

I found the original and it’s like this:

Do you remember fairy tales? You know, each story has a beginning, a high point and the end.

What if we mix it and start telling the story from the different direction? To start with end, then tell how everything developed, and then to come to the beginning?. We call it non-linear narratives. And what if we use different parts and write it on the cube blocks? Or even - in pictures. And now we try to make a tower, or a different building from those blocks. This is called: constructing a narrative. Our tower can turn out completely different depending which blocks we use and in which order.

And what if we give a viewer possiblity to construct the tower with us? To select, which block goes next. That's an interactive narrative.

And to make it even more complicated, imagine that there are different characters of the story. They all have their voice, and different views on the story. So it can turn out completely different story from each perspective as well! What if we give to each one possibility to express their story? This is called a multivocal narrative. What if they express themselves in different form? ( diary, interview, personal video) - this we call mixed format narrative

How to express all those possibilities? How to start using those blocks?.. this is to find out in the coming two years

[putawaytheglobe]

We come into consciousness speaking a language already permeated with many voices—a social, not a private language. From the beginning, we are 'polyglot,' already in process of mastering a variety of social dialects derived from parents, clan, class, religion, country. We grow in consciousness by taking in more voices as 'authoritatively persuasive' and then by learning which to accept as 'internally persuasive.' Finally we achieve, if we are lucky, a kind of individuality, but it is never a private or autonomous individuality in the western sense,; except when we maim ourselves arbitrarily to monologue, we always speak a chorus of languages. Anyone who has not been maimed by some imposed 'ideology in the narrow sense,' anyone who is not an 'ideologue,' respects the fact that each of us is a 'we,' not an 'I.' Polyphony, the miracle of our 'dialogical' lives together, is thus both a fact of life, and, in its higher reaches, a value to be pursued endlessly.

Wayne C. Booth, from the Introduction to Bakhtin’s Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics