iPedia Free Information Center

Information about Real Time (media)

Real time within the media is a a method of narratology within a motion picture, television series, radio program, computer game, comic book, or comic strip wherein events being represented or portrayed exactly as it occurs. The exact time of the story action is would be equal to the time it takes to view that action.

Film and television

Often, use of split screens or picture-in-pictures are used to show events occurring at the same time, or the context in which various subplots are affecting each other. Examples include the television series 24 and films Timecode and Phone Booth. Often, the use of on-screen clocks would remind the audience of the real-time presentation.

The most prominent current example of real time occurs within the television series 24, where 24 one-hour episodes combine to form the real-time events occurring to the protagonist over the course of a day. The technique has been criticized for being unrealistic, since in order to make fiction more interesting than real-life, tasks such as travel, eating, and use of bathrooms would occur much quickly (or be ignored entirely) and therefore require more suspension of disbelief.

Video games

In a real-time computer game or simulation, events in the game occur at the same rate as the events which are being depicted. For instance, in a real-time combat game, in one hour of play the game depicts one hour of combat.

Comic books and strips

In comic books, the use of real time is made more complicated by the fact that most serial comics are released on a monthly basis and are traditionally 20 to 30 pages long, making it difficult to tell a story set in real time without overlooking important events from one month to the next. Another explanation is the prevalence of the super-hero genre in American comics, and the iconic status attached to such characters : it is often considered that such mythological, sometimes godlike heroes cannot age in real time without losing the characteristics that make them special. Hence the more common use of floating timelines in Marvel Comics or DC Comics. Exceptions include Marvel Comics' New Universe line of books, Erik Larsen's long-running Savage Dragon ongoing series, John Byrne's (three non-canon miniseries exploring the notion of "what if Superman and Batman could age?"), and Ben Dunn's Ninja High School Comic strips which feature characters aging in real-time include:
Narratology is the theory and study of narrative and narrative structure and the way they affect our perception.[1] In principle, the word can refer to any systematic study of narrative, though in practice the use of the term is rather more restricted (see below).
..... Click the link for more information.
video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

The word video in video game traditionally refers to a raster display device.
..... Click the link for more information.
Split screen is a display technique in computer graphics that consists of dividing graphics and/or text into non-movable adjacent parts, typically two or four rectangular areas.
..... Click the link for more information.
Picture in Picture (PiP) is a feature of some television receivers and similar devices. One program (channel) is displayed on the full TV screen at the same time as one or more other programs are displayed in inset windows. Sound is usually from the main program only.
..... Click the link for more information.
A subplot, sometimes referred to as a "B story" or a "C story" and so on, is a secondary plot strand that is auxiliary to the main plot. Subplots may connect to main plots, in either time and place or in thematic significance.
..... Click the link for more information.
24 is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series. Broadcast by Fox Network in the USA and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial thirteen episodes.
..... Click the link for more information.
IMDb profile

Timecode is a 2000 experimental drama film, directed by Mike Figgis.

The film is constructed from four continuous 90-minute takes that were filmed simultaneously by four cameramen; the screen is divided into quarters and the four shots are
..... Click the link for more information.
IMDb profile

Phone Booth is a 2003 morality thriller about a man who is trapped in a telephone booth by a sniper. It stars Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell and Katie Holmes, and was directed by Joel Schumacher.
..... Click the link for more information.
24 is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series. Broadcast by Fox Network in the USA and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial thirteen episodes.
..... Click the link for more information.
For the television and radio term, see .


Episodes is the quarterly journal of the International Union of Geological Sciences, published in Beijing, China.
..... Click the link for more information.
''For the 2007 documentary film, see Protagonist (film)
A protagonist is a term used to refer to a figure or figures in literature whose intentions are the primary focus of a story.
..... Click the link for more information.
Uncredited:
Sidney Bernstein
Written by Play:
Patrick Hamilton
Adaptation:
Hume Cronyn
Screenplay:
Arthur Laurents
Uncredited:
Ben Hecht
Starring James Stewart
John Dall
Farley Granger
Cedric Hardwicke
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1910s  1920s  1930s  - 1940s -  1950s  1960s  1970s
1945 1946 1947 - 1948 - 1949 1950 1951

Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII
..... Click the link for more information.
Uncredited:
Dore Schary
Written by Poem:
Joseph Moncure March
Screenplay:
Art Cohn
Starring Robert Ryan
Audrey Totter
George Tobias
Alan Baxter
Wallace Ford
Music by C. Bakaleinikoff
Cinematography Milton R.
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1910s  1920s  1930s  - 1940s -  1950s  1960s  1970s
1946 1947 1948 - 1949 - 1950 1951 1952

Year 1949 (MCMXLIX
..... Click the link for more information.
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile
High Noon is a 1952 western film which tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself.

The movie was written by John W.
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1949 1950 1951 - 1952 - 1953 1954 1955

Year 1952 (MCMLII
..... Click the link for more information.
United States:
13 April, 1957
Running time 96 minutes
Language English
Budget $340,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile
12 Angry Men is an American drama film produced in 1957 by first time director Sidney Lumet based on the play
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1954 1955 1956 - 1957 - 1958 1959 1960

Year 1957 (MCMLVII
..... Click the link for more information.
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile
The Sadist is a 1963 black and white exploitation film written and directed by James Landis, based on real life serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. It stars Arch Hall Jr.
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1930s  1940s  1950s  - 1960s -  1970s  1980s  1990s
1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966

Year 1963 (MCMLXIII
..... Click the link for more information.
M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, inspired by the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker (penname for H. Richard Hornberger) and its sequels, but primarily by the 1970 film MASH, and influenced by the 1961 novel Catch-22.
..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1976 1977 1978 - 1979 - 1980 1981 1982

Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins.

..... Click the link for more information.
The Wannsee Conference (German: Die Wannseekonferenz) is a 1984 German TV movie treating the events of the Wannsee Conference. The same events were later depicted in the English-language film Conspiracy.

External link

  • IMDB entry

..... Click the link for more information.
Clue is a 1985 comedy film based on the board game Clue (also known as Cluedo). The film uses a Gothic mansion murder mystery including suspects and a victim as the premise of the film.
..... Click the link for more information.
20th century - 21st century
1950s  1960s  1970s  - 1980s -  1990s  2000s  2010s
1982 1983 1984 - 1985 - 1986 1987 1988

Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar).
..... Click the link for more information.
Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning, American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, running a total of 9 seasons. Many of its catchphrases have entered into the pop culture lexicon.
..... Click the link for more information.
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 16
Written by Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld
Directed by Tom Cherones
Original airdate May 23, 1991
Season 2 episodes
Seinfeld - Season 2
January - June 1991

..... Click the link for more information.
May 23 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

  • 1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.

..... Click the link for more information.
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1960s  1970s  1980s  - 1990s -  2000s  2010s  2020s
1988 1989 1990 - 1991 - 1992 1993 1994

Year 1991 (MCMXCI
..... Click the link for more information.


This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia.org - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the wikipedia encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License.
Herod_Archelaus


page counter