Lens based media, Day 3

On day 3 of Lens Based Media we was asked to take 6 photos of a story line representing a beginning a middle and an end. With these 6 images we worked on how we could improve our story line and sketched out our images.

The beginning of my story introduces the first character which is a boy leaving his house to go out 

As he is crossing the road he is looking on his phone and another boy can see him from across the road, he is wearing a hood indicating that he is going to mug him for his phone.

This image shows the mugger getting closer to the guy, he is a scary looking boy ready to take his phone. The other boy can see what he is going to do but pretends not to look.

Suddenly the boy starts running away from the mugger and decides to start climbing up a tree to try and escape. This is the struggle of him trying to get away.

However, he cannot get away as the mugger grabs him whilst he is trying to climb the tree and pulls him down to stop him escaping

The mugger is screaming at the boy and the boy is frightened

He manages to get away and runs home and the mugger is watching him leave.



After this we got into a crit of 5 people to discuss our story-lines and hear all the feedback given to try and improve it. From my story line the feedback I was given was to place the storyline at night time when it is dark in an alley way or a rough area and not an area with a lot of greenery surrounding it. Also we discovered that there isn't enough struggle when the boy just escapes and goes home. It should have a bigger struggle. I came up with an idea to have it placed in a dark alley way and then as the boy is running to escape he quickly jumps onto a bus when the doors are just closing so the mugger is unable to reach him and that is his solution to his struggle. In addition to this to make it an even bigger struggle I decided to have the boy drop his phone when running away from the mugger so he has to really quickly go back and pick it up and continue to run. I found the crit to be a really helpful exercise as you can see other peoples views on your story and really analyse it well and make good changes to improve it further.