I've made a lot of progress since my last post. I have decided to go with the idea of a sketch pad comming to life. I came to this idea simply by sitting around with an A3 sheet of paper, trying to come up with ideas, and basically imagined myself, at that moment, to be in the narrative. What could happen, that sort of thing. Obviously this will appeal to the target audience I previously determined since, first of all, my whole course will have been in that position at some point, so will be easy to relate to.
Developing on from that, I began to look at other works, such as one from previous years entitled "mallet girl", by a girl called Hayley Jennings, that can be found here
https://now.ntu.ac.uk/d2l/lms/content/viewer/view.d2l?tId=214428&d2l_body_type=1&ou=63206
I really liked how she managed to create a very simple narrative and obviously demonstrated her understanding of plot, characters and narrative with quite a basic piece of work. Obviously she is talented at drawing and things, but, even though I am definitely not as good an artist, I would like to do this comic book style. I tried to develop that further by thinking about what sort of comics I used to read as a child, and what came to me were the stories of Rupert, the bear. I used to read all these annuals my mother used to read when she was a child, and I thought they were great. What I really loved about them were that they were like a comic, but whereas a comic will have some sort of narrator speaking to move the narrative forward, Rupert's narrator would rhyme in each picture. This is something I would love to include in my work.
So as to not completely rip off other people, I tried to take my idea further, and came up with the idea of the story starting in real life, with the only character at first being the student sitting down to work, and trying to come up with ideas, maybe the audience could be given decisions about what to do, like to work or to go out with friends. By also pointing out the character has a deadline for the next day, this will produce an internal conflict that the user must overcome to continue in the story. But then I was trying to think about ways of transitioning this quite normal scene that's easy for the audience to relate to on a day-to-day basis, to this surreal world where I could tell some sort of 'fairy-story'. I was thinking maybe he could get high, or start drinking, but I felt that would clash too much with the childish nature of my story, and would just be weird. Eventually I decided for the character to have all the ink he is using to go to his head. This would be known as the 'inciting incident' in Freitag's pyramid.
So I set out to write this big story, with lots of different pathways and things the user could take. It's quite a simple story, and very childish. I am also not a brilliant artist, so the quality of the drawings isn't that good, but I just tried my best to focus on the narrative. In lectures we were often told that fairy-stories are one of the best examples of narrative, and, not surprisingly, the easiest to understand. So I just set out to produce all the things I've learnt about leading up to it: plot, characters, structure, conflict (external and internal) protagonist/antagonist etc..
Anyway, I'll get shooting it as soon as I can and get it into flash.
Developing on from that, I began to look at other works, such as one from previous years entitled "mallet girl", by a girl called Hayley Jennings, that can be found here
https://now.ntu.ac.uk/d2l/lms/content/viewer/view.d2l?tId=214428&d2l_body_type=1&ou=63206
I really liked how she managed to create a very simple narrative and obviously demonstrated her understanding of plot, characters and narrative with quite a basic piece of work. Obviously she is talented at drawing and things, but, even though I am definitely not as good an artist, I would like to do this comic book style. I tried to develop that further by thinking about what sort of comics I used to read as a child, and what came to me were the stories of Rupert, the bear. I used to read all these annuals my mother used to read when she was a child, and I thought they were great. What I really loved about them were that they were like a comic, but whereas a comic will have some sort of narrator speaking to move the narrative forward, Rupert's narrator would rhyme in each picture. This is something I would love to include in my work.
So as to not completely rip off other people, I tried to take my idea further, and came up with the idea of the story starting in real life, with the only character at first being the student sitting down to work, and trying to come up with ideas, maybe the audience could be given decisions about what to do, like to work or to go out with friends. By also pointing out the character has a deadline for the next day, this will produce an internal conflict that the user must overcome to continue in the story. But then I was trying to think about ways of transitioning this quite normal scene that's easy for the audience to relate to on a day-to-day basis, to this surreal world where I could tell some sort of 'fairy-story'. I was thinking maybe he could get high, or start drinking, but I felt that would clash too much with the childish nature of my story, and would just be weird. Eventually I decided for the character to have all the ink he is using to go to his head. This would be known as the 'inciting incident' in Freitag's pyramid.
So I set out to write this big story, with lots of different pathways and things the user could take. It's quite a simple story, and very childish. I am also not a brilliant artist, so the quality of the drawings isn't that good, but I just tried my best to focus on the narrative. In lectures we were often told that fairy-stories are one of the best examples of narrative, and, not surprisingly, the easiest to understand. So I just set out to produce all the things I've learnt about leading up to it: plot, characters, structure, conflict (external and internal) protagonist/antagonist etc..
Anyway, I'll get shooting it as soon as I can and get it into flash.
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