For my media project, I so far managed to write a first draft of the story. The plot takes place in a small village and circles around the protagonist named Tom whose father just died. The story timeline takes place within a couple of days and consists of three parts; death, wake, and funeral. First of all one of the things I want to try with this story is using leitmotiv. I researched Susan Bell's book 'The artful edit (2008). Bell suggests searching out thematic symbols and gingerly sew them into a coherent, barely visible pattern. Laid in with a light touch, leitmotiv can act like a refrain that keeps bringing the reader back to your central theme. As for my story, I'm thinking to use the leitmotiv of a bottle cap that once screwed on the bottle would represent the end of a certain period within the character, perhaps a change. Here is a paragraph from my first draft, I will make sure to upload more in the next post. ...
In today's lecture, we started to prepare for our final project. We were asked to come up with 20 ideas in 20 minutes for our project, since I'm going to write a short story I decided to write down 20 ideas for different plots of a story, below is what I came up with.
Picture by Florian Klauer In this post, I will dive deeper into researching "in medias res" plot structure. In medias res is a Latin phrase meaning "in the midst of things", and true enough, a work that starts out in medias res kicks off somewhere in the middle of the plot. The use of in medias res as a plot structure goes back to the epics of ancient Greece: The Iliad and the Odyssey open in medias res and don't really go into back story until further on in the narrative. (In medias res: definition and examples). When Opening in medias res its important to start strong, as there is no back story or intro its important to jump straight into the a...
Nice video resume! Have you conducted any software testing for your project yet?
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