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The Visual Narrative Projects were all about telling a story through a different means than words. We worked on developing understandable plot lines and characters that seemed appealing and exciting. During this unit, we were introduced to many new audio and video tools in Digital Media in order to be able to fully explore the potential mediums. In Animation we worked on character design and walk cycles as well as group work to create and animation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Story<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In English, we started off by studying examples of narrative from other writers. We were tasked to visit the site https:\/\/www.shortoftheweek.com\/<\/a> and find two shorts to analyze. I chose to analyze the animated shorts \u201cAn Object at Rest\u201d<\/a>, a story about a rock just trying to rest but keeps on getting tossed around, and \u201cTimber\u201d,<\/a> a morbid story of branches trying to stay warm by keeping a fire going. We then read the stories \u201cThank You, M’am\u201d by Langston Hughes, \u201cThe Personal Touch\u201d by Chet Williamson. For these stories, we focused on learning about character conflict and developing a protagonist and antagonist. \u201cStockings\u201d by Tim O\u2019Brien, and \u201cThe Flowers\u201d by Alice Walker, were studied to learn about characters and we compared the main characters to the essay “Characters Are Not Human Beings.”. From this we learned how to define a character and why it is so important to develop qualities that make them unique but are still understandable based on the other information we know about them. Lastly, we used our skills to analyze the characterization “My House” by George Saunders, a story about a man bitter about not being able to buy his dream home because the owner decided not to sell it to him. For this text we focused on how the main character was revealing a lot about himself by describing the interactions he had with Mel Hays, the house\u2019s owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brainstorming<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Next, it was time to start creating a narrative. We started off developing a character. I decided on creating a grumpy farmer that was bitter about the world and those around him. I wanted to focus on themes about changing who you are and your ideals. I wanted to highlight that everyone forms opinions though their experiences, which can change over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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