ART 121

Southwestern College

Fall 2007

Instructor: Siobhan Arnold

THE JOURNEY: A Narrative Assignment

Due Date: Wed. October 17, beginning of class.

Requirements: 4 or more 8X10 prints, mounted or matted, and spotted.

Take your viewer on a journey with images. Tell a story using a series of photographs.

For this assignment, I want you to think about the idea of sequencing.

How do images work as a series or as a sequence? How is looking at a sequence different from looking at a singular image? What kinds of stories can be told through a series of images? Think about the way the human eye reads an image. How does the layering of information work in a sequence?

Be sure to consider the concept of narrative flow in your sequence. What makes a strong story? Think about setting the scene, introducing characters, the action, the climax, the resolution, etc.