Week 6 : Narrative

ITAP – Week 6: Narrative

Developing characters

Within every story there is always a hero, but for they’re to be a hero, there needs to also be a villain. A hero is normally a regular that has had to rise to extreme heights to overcome obstacles, whereas a villain tends to be a person who has a fatal flaw.

When developing a character you have to focus on how the character is portrayed, such as looking at the clothing they wear, the way they talk and even how the character reacts.  

Most villains and hero’s tend to have a story behind them and how they got to the stage they are at, and so a personal profile should be developed on each of the characters so that everyone knows a bit about them. 

Not all villains and heroes are always good and bad, as within some stories the villain can have a positive side to him/her and even have sympathy for some, and the hero can sometimes not really be a heroic, as things might happened on accident or it could be a coincidence.

So when creating a character for a story, you have to think about more than there name and gender, but you have to create the character from scratch so that you and the readers know everything about the character.

Narrative techniques in context

One way of getting a Narrative story across is by using simple images that have a meaning behind it and tells a story. Most people do not realise that there is normally a story behind most images and logos.  

An example of this is the apple logo, when I first saw the apple logo I personally never thought about the meaning behind it and what it meant, it was only in todays lecture that I had found out what it represented. The apple logo that represents the apple company is about the story of Adam and Eve and when Adam bit into the apple which god told him not to do, he gathered knowledge and this represents apple trying to spread knowledge through their products.

 This single logo represents the whole story of Adam and Eve.

Another example is the Nike brand, the logo and name comes from the Greek Goddess of Victory called “NIKE” and the swoosh tick it uses as its logo represents one of the Greek Goddesses wings.