GAME OF THRONES: ARYA’S JOURNEY
Arya’s Journey follows Arya Stark’s path through Westeros and Essos up to season four of the television show Game of Thrones. Lev Manovich would consider this a multimedia object because each of the slides of the story map consists of complex data structures called objects that appear. What is shown is a collection of items in which the user can perform various operations such as view, navigate and search. The story map can be used to read, watch and follow the steps that Arya Stark took on her journey and this multimedia object follows a narrative approach for its information instead of a natural database.
The interface of this object is a map of the fictional the Game of Thrones world that includes two continents, Westeros and Essos. The user is given access to several items to choose from or click on to learn more about the character Arya Stark and the trials and tribulations that she endures on her journey through both continents. The pre-cinematic spatial narrative also allows the user to follow a sequence of elements, which are presented at the same time. This allows the audience to have a direct following of what occurred in the plot of the television show. Lastly, the story map provides the user to click on YouTube videos to learn more about Arya Stark and to gain more insight by using the arrows to navigate within the object. The algorithm is a linear and a non-linear story that the user can view any chapter of any time and can jump from different areas instead of being restricted from linear order. The plot of the story map is that it starts in Winterfell and ends in Braavos but the user can click on any checkpoint and pick up the story from where they have clicked. Someone that created this story map on Knight Lab made this multimedia object that provides given points that the user can to explore. Also, it is handled through web structures such as Java Script, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML 5.
Moreover, the narrative of this object is that it follows a singular character from a popular television show Game of Thrones from the first season up to the end of the third season. This story can be followed directly and indirectly using the arrows and clicking the various amounts of story checkpoints that are provided. The checkpoints are components that withhold responsibility for organizing this multimedia object. This linear and non-linear story does not need to be investigated beyond face value and is described as linear, literal and ordered according to the Design Dimensions. Personally, I am connected to this piece because I became a fan of the show as my friends and I would bond together just to watch every episode. The power of social media led myself to connect with other people around the world an discuss each event that occurred in every episode that aired on television.
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