I believe that John Harris piece Whale Hunt is both a narration and database. What made me categorize this piece as a narration is due to\u00a0Mieke Bal criteria for a narrative which is as follows: it should contain both an actor and a narrator; it also should contain three distinct levels consisting of the text, the story, and fabula; and its \u2018contents\u2019 should be \u201ca series of connected events caused or experienced by actors\u201d. All of these criterions are present in this piece. There is a story being told with the pictures, the person in the picture is the actor and the photographer is the narrator. There is also small captions that inform the user on what is going on and the locations. Therefore there is enough information being given in this piece to equate to be a narration. I thinks that this piece is really amazing, because of the great photography. The picture tells the story it starts from the airport towards their destination and you see them actually hunting the whale. The user feels like they are part of the story because they don’t have to rely on their imagination when going through this piece, they can actually see the story as it unfolds. What makes me think of this piece as a database is when\u00a0Lev Manovich states that \u201cdatabase represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list.\u201d That is what Whale hunt is a database of pictures taken during a trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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