First Impressions
- This workshop taught me how to use big ideas in a small time frame
- I enjoyed learning on how to create my own big ideas
- I learnt that when you make things not correlate to their intended use it adds this air of mystery. This is a good starting point for a plotline.
Developed Response to the Workshop
Big small stories is about putting the most impact on the audience even with small narratives as it gives the smallest amount of information but by providing enough information to keep them interested it will leave them with wanting more.
I got to learn how to do this myself by creating a short story with only five lines based on a set prompt. I decided to choose grief however adding a twist by tricking the audience that the story was love based then turning it into a of a more sinister tale. This idea of subverting expectations I learnt from an earlier workshop but worked well in this piece of text too.
I had also used the techniques taught in this workshop which was big small stories by not telling the audience what exactly happened giving enough context to establish a storyline and a set of main characters but not exactly how it happened and how it turned sour. This was an effective storyline however may be very basic as it uses generic phrases that don’t give any deeper meaning as to what the continuing plotline could be,.
So to add to this and make it more of an effective big small story I could add more detail to what kind of world they gave as well as adding to more of what the other character is under could give more context to this story.
Another part of this workshop is looking at where I was to consider my space , negative space, tension and lighting. As I usually work at night the space is very dark an d creates this sinister ambiance with the only light source in the center of it. The sweet wrappers look intentionally placed even though they are carelessly scattered its as if the empty wrappers compliment the dark exterior of this shot.
I gave this object a line that doesn’t fit it either ‘I love worms’ . Much like the 5 line story this was to create a big small story by subverting expectations of what you expect from this object, which is to stand and look beautiful. The juxtaposition of the line I chose made the cute figure look a lot more twisted just because of that singular line.
