Now that you know a little more about Narrative Structure, narrative themes and narrative character types you will be set a task of producing a 30 second stop motion story that may, or may not follow a traditional narrative arc – beginning, middle and an end.

Here are some links to last year’s efforts:

Use the following app:

You will be provided with:

• 2 lego characters
• 2 lego items of MES
• 1 binary opposition
  

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Task:

Film a 30 second story.

Embed in your blog.

Bullet point some reflection based around these questions.

• Does it fulfill the traditional narrative structure?
• Do the characters fulfill conventional character types?
• Are there binary oppositions?
• Explain how Music Video narratives can differ from these conventional ideas i.e. are able to play with time and space, are episodic, are anachronic, are thematic and don’t always have an ending so that they are repeatable etc.