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Half way through the Hoopla Improv Story narrative course and we actually attempt a couple of 20 minute stories.
One pretty confused one about a voyage to find unicorns which ended up about time-travellers due to mixups.
And one about the child of a missing astronaut seeking his father by joining a space mission.
Edits are what made the main difference here. Shouting "Cut to the jail" left half the players thinking they were in a flashback and the other half thinking they were in the consequences of the previous scene. Thus one ending up being a time-traveler.
A more coherent edit might have been "Flashback to jail", and these more coherent edits are key to what made the second story less chaotic and more whole. "Cut to the training test" or "Flashback to school where a teacher is impressed with the protagonist"
I like a game with a narrator. The narrator can give the story structure and theme and act as a director of the action. But we can do that without a narrator if the edits are well thought out and shouted clearly enough to keep the actors on the same track.
Mind you, the chaos is the funny bit usually.
#improv #hooplaImpro #london

Found on my "watch later" list: a very interesting video from 7 years ago that compares the Zelda game "Breath of the Wild" with Studio Ghibli. And the similarities are striking - especially when you look at Princess Mononoke. I haven't played a Zelda game since the SNES but I think the narrator is right: Zelda's 2017 adventure is an homage to Ghibli's work, both in terms of its look as well as its themes.

Continuing my ReHeat watching with audio descriptions on. S1 Ep 3 and 4 #HeatedRivalry Disliking some of the choices the narrator makes, like WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST DESCRIBE WHAT I JUST SAW THEM DOOOOO???? … obviously I’m not in the loop on their standards.

When considering what keyboard shortcuts to support in your application, don’t stress about JAWS/NVDA. They have pass-through commands (a key combo that tells the SR to ignore the next key/combo).
• NVDA F2
• JAWS 3
• Narrator 3
Stress about other languages instead.
#a11y #i18n

enjoying my semi-regular mindblow that ken burns's main narrator, peter coyote, was one of the radical haight-ashbury diggers.

So I was doing some reorg on my home media server and I realized I have my copy of The Matrix Reloaded [hacked] by Doctor M on there but I don’t have Revolutions [hacked] and have NO ideas where it would be.
I’m sure it’ll be easy to find (Narrator: it will not be)
GDI!
😭😭😭