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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