From Born Magazine I chose The Secret Lives of Trees by David Hamilton. This is an interactive media done through animation. I think Flash is used to make this animation. It is a distribution in time narrative. I think this piece if very successful because it is very simple yet informative and artistic. I think this narrative goes through the seasons and the colors change as the seasons change from green to a dark red. This doesn't seem like a very hard media to interpret and use on my own. As the power-point on Digital Narratives says there are 5 elements that differ between old and new media. One of the differences that new media has is modularity; elements are assembled into larger objects but maintain their separate identities. This is very noticeable in The Secret Lives of Trees because each season is a different section and has different words to go along with it, but they all come together as a whole in making the animation work and be cohesive. Another key difference between old and new media is numerical representation which means that the new media is programmable. People, like David Hamilton, who use new media use programs like Dream Weaver and Flash to make their interactive medias.
The other media I used was from poemsthatgo.com it was one called Nine by Jason E. Lewis. He uses distribution in space which means there is no single space where the whole narrative can be experienced, although it is a single window that shows the narrative you have to click on 9 different squares to change the interactive parts of the narrative. Personally, I don't think this is a very successful piece as a whole, I was confused at first how to view this media and what to do to change it or how it was supposed to work. You have to move around the different blocks one at a time to produce a picture. It reminded me of one of those puzzles where you have to rearrange the pieces to form a larger picture except in this one if you click on a frame the picture changes slightly.
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