As a person who tries to enjoy narratives in as many forms as possible from the comedies of Aristophanes to contemporary sporting events I have found this course interesting in ways I have not expected, mainly in the areas of fiction I was surprised to have found that have existed in the last twenty years that I would of expected to have heard of as person who has spent a lot of time experiencing modern narratives over the last fifteen years (including a variety of multimedia stage events including one that involved somebody running round with a lawnmower throwing out condoms with sayings attached). The main thing influence it has had on my consumption of media is that I notice how a different kind of story could be told even in more traditional stories may not be able to be told in the means we have studied.

My perspective did change a little when I started to think about how traditional narratives dealt with these problems even if not at the time. There is a thriving tradition of reinterpreting Shakespeare however the director wants either in stage or in movies reaching its peak in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. The 1999 movie Fightclub also manages to address this issue even if its solution is to watch the movie again. Where all the forms studied actually have failed to perform is they have not managed to put out and a equivalent of Birth of a Nation by Griffith an influential masterpiece that caused widespread controversy in the society it was released in, though the Grand Theft Auto series got close, it did not cause a investigation into the medium that revealed something about society at large.