Detail View: Graduate Thesis Collection: Using Non-Linear Storytelling in Animation to Inspire Critical Analysis for the Audience

Title: 
Using Non-Linear Storytelling in Animation to Inspire Critical Analysis for the Audience
Creator: 
Jackson, Dria
Subject: 
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Animation
Subject: 
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Animation
Rights: 
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract: 
"This thesis will explain the advantages of utilizing non-linear storytelling in animation and how it can be used to inspire critical analysis for the audience. Non-linear storylines are those which do not have the traditional beginning-middle-end structure. They can take those points and present them in any order, omit one entirely, or not utilize any at all. The purpose of using non-linear narratives is to present stories in nonconventional ways without so much of a focus of telling one specific story, but rather the journey of how the audience responds to what is presented to them and how everything fits together. Through this, non-linear narratives can enforce a higher level of critical thinking that cannot be achieved from typical, linear films." --Abstract

*Keywords: nonlinear, linear, storytelling, narrative, critical analysis, abstract, premise, puzzle
Publisher: 
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date: 
2021-03
Format: 
2 online resources: 1 PDF (Thesis, 57 pages, color illustrations) + 1 mp4 film (Visual component, approximately 4 min., sound, color)