Welcome to Fairytale Land

To be honest, I felt like association networks were just a waste of time. While practicing making them while watching the first episode of Once Upon a Time (a TV series I’m really hooked on at the moment) it felt like it was just a bunch of random connections and a bunch of useless data that really had no context. However. By looking into this concept of “character association” a bit more in detail, I started to kind of get a feeling of the applications for it (also the question prompts given to my by my professor helped in that too). Just by looking at a character map, you can see which characters are the ones driving the action, kind of get an understanding of the relations of characters and who seems related to the plot. And, in the specific case of Once Upon a Time, you can see the constant switches between the real world and the fairytale land.

Also, seeing how other people created and developed their networks that sometimes an association network could be hard to read by someone else. I know, like for my associations, I used a lot of abbreviations so I can actually catch as much of the dialogue as I can, but if you were to look at my map you would just see a bunch of “MM” and “PC” all over the place, but that doesn’t really mean anything of the data isn’t explained or organized.