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I visited the Game of Thrones Tapestry when it was touring in the Ulster museum in Belfast. It reminded me a lot of Heiji Monogatari’s Scroll with the way the media is presented to the audience.
It is one continuous set of media which allows the story to be told by splitting the scenes into different still sections. This allows the story to be told the way it happened but also allows the audience to come up with their own ideas as to what happens between the scenes.
The tapestry is already 66 meters long and there is still another season of the show to be added onto the end. The tapestry will tell the audience two stories. If they follow it one way it tells the story the author wanted to tell if they follow it the other way it tells a completely different story.
The fact the scenes are split allows the audience to wonder what is going on between the two scenes which allows each persons understanding of the media to be totally different, even though they are looking at the exact same tapestry.
