Name: Himanshu Jyoti Hazarika
Guide: Prof. Sumant Rao
Course: Animation and Film Making
Credits: ADGPI- Indian Army, Tin Shade – Music Band, Aditya Horizons, Greg Noblin – For Highest Peak Theamatic Music
Nested Storytelling
Nested stories have been around for centuries or probably from millenniums. Here frequently stories are nested and looped within other stories. It is another approach of telling a series of stories. Some famous old examples are Arabian Nights, One Thousand and One Nights, Ramayana, etc. However, the method of nested loops is also used well in therapies and persuasive techniques.
The objective of the project was to study and analyse the structure of nested stories and implement them into a linear / Interactive story format. The story convolutes around the events from three different periods of time and the life of three soldiers.
Nested stories are stories within stories. In such narrative, it can have any number of stories, sub-stories, secondary stories, and any of these can further have it’s own plots and sub-plots. Nested stories are present among us from centuries and can be easily seen in books, movies, TV series, plays, mythologies, folktales and so on. However, the method of nested loops is also used well as in therapies and persuasive techniques.
““Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Rally Point is a short film based on nested storytelling. It is about the life of multiple protagonists and their motivations which make them determinant to cross all hurdles and remain strong in the face of uncertainties.
It is the part of further possible extensions in the project. Which includes restructuring the story of Rally Point and Narrative Design for its interactive versions, where the story can be driven by user’s decision. It can be an interactive movie or a video game.