SUDDEN TURN OF EVENTS
Narrative
Level: First Year Art & Design/ ESL low-intermediate to intermediate
Language Focus: literary devices
Design Focus: storytelling techniques and mixed media explorations
Time: 2 classes of 2 hours 40 min (2h 15min activities + 25min. break/debrief)
Prep time: 2 hours
Lesson Description:
In this lesson students explore storytelling in one frame and a sequence of frames; in understanding various types of framing students explore how details within a frame can construct a cohesive story and ways in which rhythm, pace, and continuity can help set out the conflict, climax, and resolution of an engaging story. The teacher introduces photography/photo retouching, color theory, storyboarding, and multiple-narratives writing exercises in order to guide students in developing compelling stories and deconstructing/reimagine such stories in a collaborative exercise. Teacher introduces Adobe Photoshop editing tools. 
Exquisite Corpse. Drawing Games at The London Design Festival, September 24, 2015
Fall 2014
Jeffrey Roy, “A $300 Haircut” (top); Martina Travia “Anger of a Housewife” (middle); Martina Travia and Jeffrey Roy, ” Fallen”
Class 1
FOR TEACHER:
Readings:
- Literary devices handout (expanded version)
- The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (excerpt).
Visual Aids
- Crash movie trailer
- Chris Marker, La Jete (1962) excerpt/French- no English subtitles
- Heroe’s Arc (graph)
FOR STUDENTS:
Readings:
– Gilles Deleuze: The Movement-Image and The Time-Image, isites.Harvard.edu
Handouts:
- Exquisite corpse instructions
- Literary Devices
Worksheets:
Class 2
FOR STUDENTS:
Handouts:
- Adobe Photoshop tutorials