{"id":1633,"date":"2023-06-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beaniebopdesigns.com\/caroline517443OCA-illustration2-responding-to-a-brief\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2023-08-19T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T07:46:00","slug":"research-point-basic-elements-of-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beaniebopdesigns.com\/caroline517443OCA-illustration2-responding-to-a-brief\/part-3-narrative-illustration\/research-point-basic-elements-of-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Point: Basic Elements of a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pick a film, read a book or look at a comic strip. Can you boil the story down its most basic elements? What’s driving this narrative and how is it resolved at the end? What genre is it or is it an amalgam of more than one? Reflect on your findings. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might want to extend this by finding another story with the same basic structure, but told using a different treatment or genre.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I began this Research Task by searching for theories or ‘rules’ for storyline structures and found there are quite a few, including 4 point, 6 point and 7 point story structures… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shape of Stories<\/em> by Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept I found particularly interesting was the Shape of Stories<\/em> put forward by Kurt Vonnegut<\/a>, which he outlines in the brief video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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