To start today we watched a short black and white film, Fridge - Peter Mullan. The film shows the struggle of a couple to save a boy from suffocating in a locked fridge. The story shows both the initial problem trying to be solved as well as a number of other struggles whilst trying to solve the first. The couple are trying to save the boy although no one tries to help them, the neighbourhood is very isolated and sets the scene that everyone is living their own lives looking down on the rest. A story like this touches you in three ways: Visual, Sound and Emotion, which is the most powerful.
Although I know the structure of a story, we were reminded that they have a beginning, middle and an end. However there is a stronger structure which follows as -
Beginning
World
Character
PROBLEM
Middle
Obsticles
Struggle
End
Resolve problem - the story can not end until resolved
Following this we teamed up in groups of four, in which we started to draw characters and places that had a certain unique personality. Our drawings were starting to look like cartoons because we were trying to enhance the drawing to show off the personality; all of our drawings were drawn onto the same sheet of paper. After filling the whole sheet of paper, as a group we took six characters and came up with a world for each of them using one of the places we had previously drawn. For example Henry is a normal man who works in a fancy dress shop as a clown. He also completes rituals in Stone Henge where he sacrifices pigeons.
We then created three storyboards over the top of our drawings using the guidelines of creating a story. I really enjoyed coming up with ideas and working as team to create a story that works.
