After last weeks disagreements, I feel like our group is now back on track with Project brief 4.
At this weeks workshop we gained an extra member, Amelia. This has taken a lot of stress off Elise as she would have had to edit the audio with no previous experience. Even though I don’t know how good Amelia is at editing, I feel like we can trust her with editing the audio essay. She’s already brought some great ideas to the table despite only just joining. The others are a bit wary of giving her control of the audio essay editing because she did leave after the first 20minutes of our meeting in workshop, and missed 3 weeks prior or workshops and lectorials. So we will see how everything goes.

In this session we also sorted out what our project will actually be about, because until this day we had only a generalised theme of how children’s narratives are structured. We came to the question of “what makes a successful children’s narrative”. This question allows us to explore the way children’s narratives are built, with the three act structure, as well as using examples, such as Bridge to Terabithia, as a counterpoint to say this is not always the case. I also want to explore the backgrounds of why we associate children’s narratives to fairytales, and where they came from and developed. Im going to do some research on how children’s literature has evolved and become more like Adult novels.

In this workshop I rented a Zoom H2N Microphone to record VOX pops around the classroom. I thought this would be a cool and different way to introduce the topic of “what makes a successful children’s narrative” in the audio essay. I ask a number of questions such as ‘what happens in a typical fairytale’ or asked groups to discuss narratives which end differently to the expected structure. From this i think there is a gold mine of interesting quotes. Ive expressed to the others how we could use these recordings. I think the best way to edit these clips together is to start off clear then slowly layer them over each other to give the audience a sense of confusion. then when it reaches the loudness ‘climax’ cut it, and frame the question being answered. This will signify to the listener how broad this topic is, and that we are only focusing on a small section. Amelia will put her own spin on this which will be interesting to see.

So yeah, the projects going better than at our last meeting on Monday. I feel a lot more comfortable now