Narrative | Plan

This week, we were learning how to create a plan for a narrative.

First, we reminded ourselves of the structure of a narrative (TOPES). TOPES stand for title, orientation, problem, events and solution. In the orientation, you need to answer: who?, when?, where?, and what?. The problem needs to talk about something that goes wrong. The solution is the last things that the characters do to solve the problem. A solution can either fail or succeed.

After that, we watched two short films and tried to identify the structure of the movie. Both of the movie's structure lasted for a very different amount of time.

Lastly, we brainstormed an idea to write a narrative about. We could only make the story one A4 page. The film had to be 30s minimum and 2m maximum. My idea was about Mahdi voting for National during elections.

I enjoyed brainstorming ideas and planning my narrative.

LI: To write a short story that can be made into a short film.