Tuesday, 23 February 2016

23/02/2016 - Narrative

Week 07

Narrative


Below is my story beats for my narrative, below each story beat I have put a brief outline of what sort of paintings would be associated with the beat.


Cave Story: Story Beats – Paintings Description

Child is born to chieftain of a small tribe
Baby on floor, chieftain and wife standing over with tribe in celebration

Son comes of age
Protagonist being handed a weapon (shows the responsibility handed to him by father)

Tribe are full of celebration (possibly big celebration for the coming of age)
Tribe party, protagonist in middle with weapon (this is where I establish a piece of clothing that will be identified with the protagonist for the duration of the narrative)

Gets married
Protagonist with wife side by side…some sort of over the top head dress to show marriage – father looking on

Son hunts with dad (the chieftain) (all is good)
Protagonist and father crouched while hunting an animal

Father is murdered
Father getting stabbed in sleep along with mother…..next shows protagonist standing over body…finding murderer and killing him

Son takes over
Protagonist standing in front of knelt tribe…receiving a ceremonial club

There is war
Protagonist rallying troops for a battle…battle scene

His wife can’t give birth (show her pregnant then show lots of blood underneath her to show the distress)
Wife is pregnant…but with blood underneath showing miscarriage

More war
Another battle...small tribe battle

New chieftain gets more powerful
Pile of dead rivals and him sitting on a seat at the top (powerful pose)

Wife miscarriages again
Wife miscarries again…protagonist hits her in frustration

Chieftain is going insane – kills loads of game – big pile of dead animals
Walks away….kills lots of animals…he is sitting on top of it but with a more depleted pose

His wife dies giving birth and the child lives
Wife pregnant….giving birth on back…..child in protagonist arms…wife dead

In his rage he throws the child off a cliff
Protagonist walks off with baby…throws him off a cliff in his rage

He is holding dead child and crying
On knees at top of cliff….runs to bottom and holds baby while screaming and crying

Self-imposed exile – puts his crown on floor of village
Confronts tribe and lays his ceremonial club in front of them

Leaves
Walks away

Show him getting older – taking out anger on an animals – he is killing it with his hands
Walking while getting older….he is hunting animals with bare hands

Finds shelter in a cave
Finds entrance to a cave (over shoulder shot)

Trail of paint smudges down towards where his body is.
Trail of paint smudges down to where he died

He has some sort of defining piece of clothing which is at the back of the cave where the story ends and the paintings trail leads to
             

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