Picture the Music

Notes

This activity is quite complex as it requires the students to plan backwards from the problem.

They need to have a good understanding of the five branches of the Narrative planning map: opening, build up, problem, solution and end.

The picture is linked to the problem arm - this is the only arm in this activity that will have a picture and music attached.

The ideas that the students get from the pictures and music on this arm will enable them to create a whole narrative, a little like filling in the missing pieces. The great thing about this is that all the students will have different ideas. Even though the problem stimulus is the same, they will all have different ways of arriving there!

The problem involves a Narrative planning map and 2 pieces of music.

Play the first piece tune 38 crickets with the picture. Explain that this is the sound of where they are (setting) at this point in the story. Explain that when the map is touched the second sound happens (play tune 37 helicopter)

For each tune they can be making notes on the problem arm of the narrative planning map template. It is from these ideas that the entire narrative will grow.

The reason the map is a problem, why it makes this noise, the location of the map, the characters involved, the build up to the problem, how they will open the story and how it will end is all up to the students.

Encourage them to discuss their ideas with each other and to share their thought maps. Share the ideas with the whole class and point out how wonderful it is that there can be so many different takes on a visual/auditory stimulus.

It can also lead to interesting discussions about genre, how many types of narrative genre are covered by everyones narrative, you’ll find there are historical dramas, thrillers, modern fables, horror etc

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