Narrative : Project Brief 11/1/14

You are asked to construct two significantly different ‘narratives’ on a single theme or subject of your choice. Your approach could embrace any genre – documentary, fictional, fantastical or conceptual.  The first narrative must be screen based (slideshow, video, ebook, blog), the second a printed publication (folder, newspaper, small book, set of postcards etc..) 

In this module you will learn how to guide the viewer to the conclusion you want, be it truth, fiction or nonsense. We want you to consider

· How the meaning of one image can be affected by another, whether it is adjacent, in a sequence or combined with text.

· How the context in which images are seen affects their meaning. This means you will need to define/describe this context.

· How different types of narrative are constructed (linear, random, fragmented, flashback, tableau,…)

. How the aesthetic of the image – its mise en scene, influences meaning (lighting, composition, format, point of view, viewpoint, color…)

. How the addition of text, or spatial devices (blank pages, movement, sound) can influence meaning.

You will submit for assessment

 – RDB; sketchbooks and an online research blog

– Two different “visual stories” in two formats

– One in digital form submitted for the formative review on a cd or dvd (max file size 100MB). You will have the opportunity to improve it according to feedback for final assessment. It can be a slideshow, single screen projection, ebook, pdf with 3 or more tableau images)

– One in printed form submitted for the summative review as a bound publication; booklet, newspaper, magazine, (max 20 pages, stapled, spiral bound, hand stitched, folder, ring binder, print on demand).

 

This is the brief we have been given for our narrative project. Usually when I am given a brief I can come up with some sort of idea to work from and develop, but for some reason I am so far struggling to come up with any interesting ideas for this project. Hopefully after some research of artists and other narrative works I will find some inspiration to get started with the project.

Narrative Introduction Lecture : 9/1/14

Today had our introductory lecture with Emmanuelle Waeckerle, David Rule and Ellen Nolan.  Both Emmanuelle and David gave lectures on what was needed within this unit and also gave presentations on photographers and artists that link with the unit and could help towards are research.

I had recorded this, however the blog doesn’t seem to want to upload the file, instead here are photos of my notes that i took.

  

  

First Post …

Today I started up my blog. On this blog i will aim to post at least thing a day along side other work towards my ‘Narrative’ unit.

Starting today, I wanted to get a clear definition of what the word ‘narrative’ means so i went to a dictionary and looked it up.

In the ‘Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (7th edition)‘ it says: Narrative- noun (formal) 1 [C] A description of events, especially in a novel   SYN STORY: a gripping narrative of their journey up the Amazon. 2 [U] The act, process or skill of telling a story: The novel contains too muh dialogue and not enough narrative. 

I decided to then have a look through a thesaurus to see what words have a similar meanings to ‘narrative’ to see if would push forward my thoughts on what may be expected for this project.

In ‘The New Oxford Thesaurus of English (2000)‘ it says: Narrative > noun a chronological narrative of starks life.  ACCOUNT, story, tale, chronicle, history, description, record, portrayal, sketch, portrait, statement, report, rehearsal, recital, rendering.

From this I have taken assumption that what we needed to do for this unit is to create a collection of images that project some sort of story through the way they are presented and their theme along with an RDB to show our workings.