LA NARRATION INTERACTIVE

Dragana Trgovčević

École nationale supérieure de création industrielle (ENSCI - Les Ateliers)
Mastère spécialisé création et technologie contemporaine

juin 2011

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“With the pen in one's hand, narrative is a difficult art; narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands, its course changed by every boulder it comes across and by every grass-clad gravelly spur that projects into its path; its surface broken, but its course not stayed by rocks and gravel on the bottom in the shoal places; a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes, and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe three quarters of a mile around, and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path it traversed an hour before; but always going, and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of the narrative, which has no law.
With a pen in hand the narrative stream is a canal; it moves slowly, smoothly, decorously, sleepily, it has no blemish except that it is all blemish. It is too literary, too prim, too nice; the gait and style and movement are not suited to narrative. That canal stream is always reflecting; it is its nature, it can't help it. Its slick shiny surface is interested in everything it passes along the banks--cows, foliage, flowers, everything. And so it wastes a lot of time in reflections.”

- Mark Twain's Autobiography

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Introduction

La narration nous entoure et fait partie de chacune de nos expériences. Nous la retrouvons à la télévision, dans les journaux, les jeux vidéos, les sites internet, les livres mais aussi au quotidien.
Trouvant son origine au théâtre et au cinéma, la narration interactive est visuelle, incluant des perspectives et des schémas narratifs.
Je vais donc tenter d’examiner la relation entre ces perspectives, la narration, l’imagerie visuelle et l’interactivité, ainsi que la