With the tremendous amount of information gathered from our last session, we had a lot of ideas to work with. As such, we decided that we would have another smaller session on Monday to begin to work towards assembling a story.
Despite the poor attendance for the session, I feel that we still made progress.
We discussed the different types of narrative style to decided which would be best for our story. This involved deciding on the point of view of the story:
1st Person "I walked into the pub..."
2nd Person "You are walking into a pub..."
3rd Person "She/He entered the the pub..."
We made a tentative decision to have a Narrator to give a general impression of the scene, a short history of the location, point out things of note etc.
We also decided that the story would be in the format of a journalist talking to witnesses via a short dialogue. We aim to keep the recordings fairly short so as not to overload the participants with information. We will invite them to take their own notes over the course of the audio tour.
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After a break, we looked at the order of events and how we might translate them into our story. As we decided to set the story from the point of view of a journalist who arrives in Totnes on the day of the final inquest, this meant that we didn't have to stick to placing events in chronological order. As an exercise, everyone was given a chance to map out an order of events as they saw it. While everyone came up with a different order, they all agreed of the format of a journalist speaking to witnesses. This gave me a great opportunity to plan out the story to best suit my proposed style of writing
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This session was very useful in defining a clear story in my head. With the help and input from the students, I began to pull my creative ideas together into a more focused writing plan. I now had the characters, the locations and the writing styles. I now felt happy to start writing!
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