TIME-ASPECT
Referring to the time, we can distinguish, on the one hand, between internal and external time, and on the other hand, between subjective and objective time.
External time o historical time, refers to the period and the time where the action takes place. This occurs when a story goes back to a period in the past or in the future.
In this case, the facts that have place in a temporal context seem to happen in a period of time close to our times.
“The song she’d chosen “ Superstar” by Jamelia, she’d talked to Lucy about it & decided she should do a popular one where she could show her dancing skills”.
This hypertext doesn’t show many time references, just in a concrete moment of the hypertext, gives a little review which lets you to locate on August 8, 2004.
Internal time o narrative time, makes reference to the chronological time, that is, the time which spans the length of the action, so it has place at the same time the story is being told.
In the case of the internal time, it occurs the same thing as the external one, it doesn’t locate you in a concrete point of time, so I can’t tell the exactly moment in which the story starts, but I can predict that it begins some months before the summer.
This hypertext follows a non-linear format, and despite that the story is not very long, it is very difficult to try to make a Timeline of it, and considering that this hypertext is made by several persons, it becomes even more complicated to make a logical order of the story, because each one of the authors has made their own continuation of it following their own point of view. This means that for each one of them, the story had different sequences and different ways to end the hypertext.
Regarding to the objective time, which refers to the duration of the events, I must say that the story maybe has been developed in a period which ranges between two or three months, as I don’t have a concrete reference which tells the time that went by.
As far as I’m concerned, the subjective time can be understood as the objective estimation without external “keys” of the clock.
In my opinion, the course of time of the story in the hypertext has been more than maybe it has passed, because when Beth, the main character writes the e-mail to the show program Star Search, she receives the answer quite immediately, and I think that in real life, this takes more time. But this is just my “subjective” opinion.
At the beginning, when I chose this hypertext, I thought it was just written by one author, as the great majority of them. But as I was reading it, I realized I was wrong, because it was written by several people, whose I couldn’t take any relevant information.