Tag: storytelling

• Storytelling: The old testament

  

  Introduction The other day I happened to look at the College Tour. The College tour is a Dutch program in which the host Twan Huys invites famous people to talk about what made them famous and allow the audience(students mostly) to ask them questions. In this particular episode the guest was John Cleese. During this interview someone…

  Merit Coba

  08/04/2015

  stories

  bible, old testament, stories, story, storytelling, yaweh, youth

• Story-telling: The hobbit – The battle of the five armies.

  

  Yesterday I saw the Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies, and wrote a short scathing critique of the movie on metacritic. This third episode is simply a long series of fights interspersed with some dialog. However, besides giving criticism I want to learn from such movies, so I am going to write a few short notes the…

  Merit Coba

  07/02/2015

  story-telling

  movies, stories, story, storytelling, the battle of the five armies, the hobbit

• Story-telling: Jurassic Park 3/3: Patterns, Patterns

  Welcome to the third part of my posts about Jurassic Park in which I am trying to delve into the story as to learn from it. Perhaps this is useful, or perhaps it is not. As already mentioned there is little to no character development in this movie. It is simply not that kind of…

  Merit Coba

  01/02/2015

  stories, story-telling

  Jurassic Park, movie, patterns in movies, patterns in stories, Steven Spielberg, stories, story, story-telling, storytelling

• Storytelling: Jurassic Park(part 1/3): god, the devil and lunch!

      I write reviews, but not because I want to criticize things. Actually I like to learn how to write and tell stories, so that is why I write them. On one level to learn to write the reviews themselves and on another level to analyse the storytelling of that which I am writing about.…

  Merit Coba

  22/01/2015

  stories, story-telling

  dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, Laura Dern, Michael Crichton, movie, nerd, nerds, Part 1, raptors, Richard Attenborough, sam neill, samuel jackson, Steven Spielberg, story, storytelling, t-rex, turannosaurus

• A game: The cat lady

    Starting a post by writing  that I like a game counts probably as a spoiler and it certainly would be -I think-  if this post was meant as a game review, but this isn’t mean as such. The reason I write about the game the cat lady is because it is one of those small…

  Merit Coba

  18/07/2014

  review, videogame

  game, graphic story, indie game, interactive story, pc, storytelling, telling, the cat lady, videogame