This lesson was all about how to put together a story, looking at what elements are needed. We had a small investigation into this in small groups and ended up looking at a painting and attempted to make the story work for VR. We also looked at the importance of narrative and the difference in storytelling from narrative. A story is an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment, whereas narrative is a spoken or written account of connected events.
We looked at the structure of a plot:
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Group exercise:
‘A picture can paint a thousand words’
Reportedly first used by Frederick R. Barnard, an advertising manager
who used it in an ad in Printer’s Ink (December, 1921)
Refers to the notion that one single image can convey a story as effectively as a large amount of descriptive text.
Thousand Hands Man – Lumli Lumlong
Portrays a representation of the frontline protestors in the
pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
In our groups we had to quickly draft a rough narrative for what happened in this painting and then act out to the class our ideas. I didn’t really enjoy this activity and don’t feel like I benefited from acting it out. Especially as it was about a protest, trying to act it with such a small group of people didn’t really work that well.