Storytelling...

 

"Narrative is the representation of an event or a series of events" (p13, Abott, 2008)

Within our everyday life we either seek out new information which effect our storytelling for instance, reading newspapers online, reading a latest tweet or reading a story on Facebook. We will represent the newsworthy information within our own narrative.

Narrative is almost "conversation" everyone will tell each other the latest news or about their experience in a narrative.

"We perceive stories naturally"- We look for them.

We always try to interpret "what happens next" which keeps us as an audience engaged within the narrative.

Within our lecture in small groups we had to choose a random object from a box to come up with a narrative, meanwhile we could not use words, only pictures or objects to portray the narrative to the rest of the lecture.

Title: The Watch

Synopsis:

Our chosen object was a watch, from this object we came up with the idea that a women along with a man were in the local café Starbucks, meanwhile the women had left but still had some coffee left in her takeaway cup. The man who was also in Starbucks followed the women, which the women noticed and got quite anxious therefore she texted her friend. Although, once the man caught up he gave her, her watch which she left behind.

We called it the watch because our chosen object was a watch, along with the fact the man was watching the women too.

In order to portray the story, we printed of images from the internet, a long with using our phones to show text messages, and used devices to play music to set the scene.

Subsequently now that I have undertaken that task I will now be able to create my own story using Google Maps adding pins to display a narrative.

We also looked at other members of the lecture, they used different techniques to portray the narrative which was quite interesting.