Here's a graph that charts the plot of the storybook, dividing it between the journey of the monkey through the entire timeline, interspersed with the accounts of the other characters.
Showing posts with label characters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label characters. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Design Development - Character Design
Here are some rough sketches and coloured iterations of the first draft of character designs for the storybook.
Concept Development - Meet The Characters
Here are the characters, the witnesses and marginalized species who reside in and around urban environments and are affected by the way cities distance themselves from biodiversity and move towards monocultures. Along with the personality and significance of the characters, the excerpts from the stories illustrates their role and perspective in this scenario :
Monday, August 19, 2013
Character Explorations and possible Story Structures.
To weave together all the themes related to biodiversity into one narrative, I needed to look at possible story structures and interesting characters who can play a role in illustrating this information.
The first option was to have personas of various human key-players who can take us through the scenarios : a farmer, a doctor, a house-holder, a scientist. But this is the most predictable path to take, as my advisors say. The story can take a million other shapes and could be through the perspective of something inanimate or non-human. This was the next area to explore.
The story structures that I explored were:
See, Think, Wonder : This one's actually a Design Tool for visible thinking. But it can be a great way to create a reflective narrative in first person through a protagonist who witnesses a change.
The Monomyth : Or the Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell is one of the most common and legendary narrative structures. that follows the protagonist as he embarks upon a journey, through his obstacles to see him emerge victorious and return to his world, having eveolved spiritually.
The Short Story : The structure of a short story is debatable, ranging from this to this or even this one here.
The common thread in these, as one can see is the presence of peaks and falls, a heightening of drama and mystery which is then solved to take the reader through an exciting turn of events in the short span of the story, something common even in the world's greatest and most effective speeches, as observed by Nancy Duarte in this video.
Here's what came out of this thought process :
The first option was to have personas of various human key-players who can take us through the scenarios : a farmer, a doctor, a house-holder, a scientist. But this is the most predictable path to take, as my advisors say. The story can take a million other shapes and could be through the perspective of something inanimate or non-human. This was the next area to explore.
The story structures that I explored were:
See, Think, Wonder : This one's actually a Design Tool for visible thinking. But it can be a great way to create a reflective narrative in first person through a protagonist who witnesses a change.
The Monomyth : Or the Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell is one of the most common and legendary narrative structures. that follows the protagonist as he embarks upon a journey, through his obstacles to see him emerge victorious and return to his world, having eveolved spiritually.
The Short Story : The structure of a short story is debatable, ranging from this to this or even this one here.
The common thread in these, as one can see is the presence of peaks and falls, a heightening of drama and mystery which is then solved to take the reader through an exciting turn of events in the short span of the story, something common even in the world's greatest and most effective speeches, as observed by Nancy Duarte in this video.
Here's what came out of this thought process :
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