Ty Lettau /
Locations

About This Project:
A sibling to Timelines, Locations is about tracking the spatial position of major characters in a movie, book or television series. It's not a map, per se, with absolute locations... but rather an informational illustration of plot mechanics and relative character interactions. By focusing on how characters come together or move apart, these abstract graphic can actually convey many elements of the story. Most stories look and feel reasonably similar in this format, but outliers emerge. Ready Player One has much more rapid character motivations and movement, so the plot tends to more verticality. The Martian, while literally covering more distance than any other, has very few physical character interactions.