As a onetime writer and editor for print, when I switched to digital media in 2007 I became even more conscious of the fact that the work of amateurs was often just as good, if not better, than that of their more richly compensated and higher-profile peers: Their arguments were often more rigorous, their ideas more original, their narratives more cohesive, their language more lucid.
Written by Mr. Shurchin, the film, apparently based on his life story, lacks a cohesive narrative and traffics in one-dimensional characters.
He is definitely not the first person to use the open source model, but the market needed a figurehead, an origin story, to create a cohesive narrative.
For his part Mr. Lapine began arranging the scenes into a cohesive narrative, weaving the story of West's life with that of the budding romance of Jo and Charlie.
The story was criticized for lacking a cohesive narrative (particularly the opening plot line of assassins hunting Batman, largely forgotten by the game's end), but EGM said that when it works, the story was worthy of any Batman film, TV show or comic book.
The typical approach in reconstructing an event like this would be to assemble the details of the story, as told by the involved parties, into a cohesive narrative.
Students will construct web presentations that combine multiple media forms, and learn how to design a longform story in a way that connects each piece into a cohesive narrative structure.
Students will work in teams to pitch and report on in-depth stories using a variety of media — text, photos, video, graphics, interactives — and learn how to design a longform story in a way that connects each piece into a cohesive narrative structure that is optimized for web, mobile, and social consumption.
The Origin Story and "Vision Story". are two types of especially useful stories for creating a cohesive narrative when pitching to investors.
