Second Lesson

In the second lesson, we finished watching 'The company of wolves', we talked about the componments of a narrative and then illustrated the 6 angles that a typical narrative will take.

I'll just post up my notes from the lesson.



We talked about the different stages in which a narrative typically moves, appararantly first noted by Aristotle. We have the introduction, the 'inciting incident', the journey, the 'middle point', the overcoming of the middle point, and then equilibrium. I added in the overcoming of the middle point.. er.. point, because it seems to be a more sensical way of looking at the narrative system.

Anyway, using this material we made a version of the 'exsquisite corpse' in groups of 6 by making 6 drawings using the above narrative system.

So, in mine we have the introduction of some kind of bunny with ice cream everywhere, then the inciting incident of noticing a particularly large and beautiful ice cream spaceship, then the plan and assumed journey to make its own spaceship, which is challenged by the 'middle point' when the creature finds it's really expensive to make such a fabulous craft. However, this is overcome in the 'overcoming of the middle point' when the creature simply sticks a pair of wings a giant ice-cream to make his own spacecraft and then in the equilibirium, we can see he's enjoying himself once more, albeit this time with a nice spaceship to party about in.



Next, teh homewerks!