multi plot

Like the sky the eyes is conceived from the start as a hypertext novel: as a set of links and intertextual relations. Once you click on the access to the novel, appears to us a grid, in which each section is occupied by an eye. On the vertical axis we read three names (Javier, Iñaqui and Paco) and the horizontal axis is numbered from 1 to 13. Three characters, thirteen times and one novel, a single trigger event, "Elizabeth is dead ..." Not only imports text about the story but the layout is the principal: "Select character and pressing time on a eye on the grid "pray bold lines. [Source: http://www.badosa.com/bin/obra.pl?id=m001 ]

Crossed Lines is a multiform (or multiplot) film telling the stories of nine characters in a way that the viewer can constantly explore and switch between all nine forms, and can simultaneously witness all sides of the characters’ exchanges which are taking place between the nine remote locations. The starting point of the piece was to conceive a series of narratives that could be viewed as individual stories, but would also reference and link to the other stories, as is the case of the multiplot film genre. As McKee has noted ‘multiplot films never develop a central plot; rather they weave together a number of stories of subplot size’. (1998:227) The difference with Crossed Lines is that it is delivered through an interactive interface paradigm, meaning that the viewer has the power to navigate and order the stories themselves, and to create a story of varying complexity depending on the number of different characters which are selected through the interface.