Illustration and Visual Narrative - Task 2: Composition

//2024 - //2024  (Week  - Week 10)

WU ZIYANG / 0368325

Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Task 2: Composition

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1. LECTURES

WEEK 7 : STORYTELLING BASICS & THREE-ACTS STRUCTURE

Storytelling basics
1. Central theme: The theme is the story's main idea or underlying meaning, often reflecting the storyteller's personal opinion on the subject matter, and may include both major and minor themes.
- Major Theme: An idea that is intertwined and repeated throughout the whole narrative.
- Minor Theme: An idea that appears more subtly, and doesn’t necessarily repeat.
2. Conflict: Conflict drives a story, creating tension and suspense. Without it, the audience is uninterested and lacks a compelling narrative. Conflict engages the audience, keeping them eager to see the protagonists overcome obstacles.
3. Characters: A story usually includes a number of characters, each with a different role or purpose. Regardless of how many characters a story has, however, there is almost always a protagonist and antagonist.
- Central Characters: These characters are vital to the development of the story. The plot revolves around them.
- Protagonist: The protagonist is the main character of a story. They must command an emotional involvement from the audience.
- Antagonist: Antagonists oppose protagonists, standing between them and their ultimate goals.

3-Acts Structure
1. Setup: The world in which the protagonist exists before the journey. The setup usually ends with the conflict being revealed.
2. Rising Tension: The series of obstacles the protagonist must overcome. Each obstacle is usually more difficult and with higher stakes than the previous one.
3. Conflict: The point of highest tension, and the major decisive turning point for the protagonist. Resolution: The conflict’s conclusion. This is where the protagonist finally overcomes the conflict, learns to accept it, or is ultimately defeated by it. Regardless, this is where the journey ends.

Fig. 1.3 Traditional three-acts structure chart (2018).

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Objective: Place your Vormator character into a Pokemon card composition, incorporating foreground, midground, and background elements. You may also create a new shape not bound by the vormator rules or shapes. You may also come up with a new character that does is not bound by the vormator shapes.