What Is The Difference Between Story And Narrative?
A story is a format, almost like a genre, whereas narratives are forever changing. For example if a big event happened and the police came to ask about it the event would be a story and the way that the witnesses’ describe it would be the narrative. You can tell narratives of the same story. It is very subjective and hybrid, with different people telling different narratives, or some people even having the exact same way of thinking.
Narrative can start to be constructed when two and two go together, your titles of your zine has to flow with the images within, which each have to flow with each other. For example you couldn’t have a zine that’s half birds and then half apples. The way that you select your images and how you sequence them within the zine will construct your narrative.
Your title plays a big part in identifying what you are trying to tell, it creates the story line, a base and format leaving the mind to link the connotations between your images and your text.
What Is A Zine?
The word ‘Zine’ is a slang word for magazine. Zines are short informal magazines, created to more entertain rather than educate. Magazines are paid productions of media, created by media conglomerates that create revenue by advertising and selling, whereas zines are more personal and hand made, they do not aim to create money so there are generally free and do not contain any adverts.
What Will Be My Story?
My zines story is going to be about the St. Helier harbour. I wanted to create something that shows the trade and exchange in Jersey, something that portrays how useful our waters and quays are.
Describe In Three Words
Jersey Trade & Communication
Describe In A sentence
An observation of the essentiality of Jerseys harbours and relationships.
Describe With A Paragraph
I want to tell a story about how important Jerseys trade and communications is. Jersey is a very small island, which means we are heavily dependant on other people. Although Jerseys harbours are seen as historic, just a maritime museum, I am going to portray how important they still are. We need trade to survive, without it we would collapse as a whole, that’s why keeping communications up is so important.
How Will I Create A Narrative And Tell My Story?
- Anchorage with the title.
- Use black and white images to portray history.
- Use colourful images to create liveliness.
- Use images with people in to observe communication.
- Have images that flow, and all relate to trade and communicating.
- Use images from different sections of the harbour to show trades impact.
- Use images that portray wealth so I can show how trade has impacted our island.
- Use an image of the trade being sold for goods (Quayside Café)
- Use create fonts and words to tell a unique story.
- Maybe include some images from the photographic archive to show the history of trade.
- Use some image captions to add a signified meaning.
- Maybe add a short introduction to let people know what I want them to interpret.