Assignment #2: Story Creation and Structure using Armatures and Seven Steps
DUE: Tuesday, 7/2, before 9 AM You will be writing two original stories and analyzing several more. The assignment is due in via e-mail, so please send your completed work to cse456-staff@cs.washington.edu and natcole@aol.com no later than July 2nd at 9 AM.
Also please bring three printed copies for each of your newly created stories to class. Thank you.
There are two parts to this assignment. One is more analytical and the other part is more creative. See below. Please do the parts in order. You will be watching several animated short stories and creating armatures and 7 steps to support them.
Part One
Please select 2 of the following animated shorts and identify 7 logical steps for each. Also define an armature statement for each of the two. Remember to create a full sentence to describe the armature and to create 7 steps that logically follow one another. Don’t skip any steps or add any steps. Use the language you have been provided for the seven steps. There should only be 7 sentences per story plus a full armature statement.
Feel free to try analyzing more than two of the shorts listed below in order to practice this new skill. WE believe that you will enjoy the shorts we’ve selected. You are only required to send in two. You will, no doubt, find that some of the shorts will be more challenging to analyze than others. The more practice you get, the better you will be at seeing the underlying story structure and being able to apply it in your own work.
Part Two
Design two original stories by creating 7 steps and an armature statement. Include an original title. This time you will be using an armature that we provide. Please choose a different armature for each story and place it at the front of the 7 steps under the title of the short. Enjoy!
You can choose between these armatures:
A. We learn from the misfortunes of others.
B. Trouble comes from the direction we least expect it.
C. The best liars often get caught in their own lies.
D. There is always someone worse off than you. |