Character & Narrative- Short story design

Short Story Design

This seminar was to make us think about how to do a short story animation with a script and thinking into animations narrative's.

Explicit Narrative- Plain to see (Normally what younger viewers take from the story)

Implicit Narrative- Hidden/ mature meaning

Cordell Barker's-Runaway

This fully animation is 9minutes long, yet clearly shows its Implicit message to be about classes and how the lower class and poor folk, sell whatever they have for money. Yet the rich con the weak and poor for their own gain. This really made me think of how much can be accomplished with no words and a short story's narrative.

What a story needs; A well thought out world, a main character or two that are clear and understood, and a problem that much occur for it to be interesting.


RoughCut BirdBox Studio's are a studio i am looking into more for narrative, as they dont normally use words yet their world and idea's are plain to understand. Their backgrounds, which i also like, are very plain and simple, yet aren't needed for it to have characters that stand out, and draw you into their environment.