Creating a Narrative

To be able to create a narrative you need to consider all components needed in order to create a successful narrative in our first lecture of the unit this was broken down for us to be able to make sure we cover all aspects when creating our own.

Narrative Strategies - Types of images

• Textual Narrative
• Visual narrative
• Still image
• Moving image
• Text as image
• Image and text
• Tableau image

Narrative Structures - The way a story is told

• Linear
• Random
• Open ended/Closed
• Repetition/permutation
• Flashback

Narrative Types - Style of the story

• Documentary
• Fiction
• Scientific
• Theoretical
• Poetic
• Personal/Diary

Visual Narrative Structures - How the narrative is presented

• Series of stills
• Sequence
• Image with Caption
• Text and Image

From this lecture I want to look at classic works of Fiction such as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to get an idea of the way in which these Narratives have been told, I feel doing this will allow me have a deeper understanding of what I need to do to create my own narrative.