What is a story...?

The beginning of Inspiration week we were asked "what is a story?". We then brainstormed as a class different derivatives, origins and the history of the word "story"...

What they contain:

• Classic Story: Beginning - Middle - End
• Plotpoints
• Characters

How and Where?

• Word of Mouth: gossip, folk tales
• Written: parchment, books, Greek Mythology, Walls (hieroglyphics and cave paintings).
• Books,
• Poems,
• Film,
• Television,
• Radio and
• Music.

Kuleshov Effect - changing one shot between two others can change the whole meaning of the film and character.
Here, Alfred Hitchock describes it perfectly, showing that just by changing the middle shot (of what he was smiling at), it changed the character from an old, endearing man to an old pervy man. If we used this in Lazy days - changing the shot of the television to a blank shot, it would have changed the whole point to our film as he would appear as if he was imagining something that we couldn't see.

Tzvetan Topdorov - He believed that in a storyline there was a balance (equillibrium) that was unbalanaced by the (disequillibrium).

The Equillibrium of Lazy Days would be the character's everyday life - stable and 'normal'. The Disequillibrium of Lazy Days would be the TV following the character around everywhere.