Category: Digital Storytelling

Characters are a key aspect of storytelling, they give the audience someone to relate to, help the story progress and even inspire the story itself. When I started to create my storyline, I started with the main character and built the world around her. I would say that characters are the most important part of my story. This is the third blog post to read in this production dossier. Main Character: The Creation Of Ren My main character started with … Continue reading “3. Characters”

This blog post discusses how I am going to produce this story into a finalised piece of digital art. This is the fifth and final blog post to read in this production dossier. What am I going to make? The plan for this project is to create a graphic novel. I am unsure of what type of layout I will choose yet, but would love to have a full volume 1 prototype by the end of this module. I will … Continue reading “5. Planning and Production – what’s next?”

In this blog post I will discuss how I will create the world and setting and how the theme will affect the story. This is the fourth blog post to read in this production dossier. Setting and Themes Robert McKee identified ‘Four Dimensions of Setting’ (McKee, 1998) The period: the story’s place in time, duration: the story’s length in time, location: the story’s place in space, and level of conflict: the story’s place in the hierarchy of human struggles. I … Continue reading “4. World Building, Setting and Theme”

In this blog post I will cover the basic story overview and how I have decided to structure the key plot points. This is the second blog post to read in this production dossier. Story Overview A mysterious disease has suddenly taken over the land, harming mothers and young children. The disease makes it impossible to deliver children and has also killed mothers in childbirth. A young witch living deep in the forest has figured out the cure and delivered … Continue reading “2. The Story Structure and Overview”

For this project, we were asked to tell a story through digital media, this could be done through a variety of media for example the creation of a game, comic or graphic novel. In my project I decided that I would like to create a fantasy graphic novel or illustrated novel to tell my story. This is the first blog post to read in this production dossier. Ideas Initially, I had a few different ideas in terms of story. I … Continue reading “1. Ideas, Initial ‘What Ifs’ and inspiration”