Writing | Narrative Planning

This week, we have been learning about planning narratives. Narrative plans are the brief ideas of a story.

First, we revised the structure of a narrative, which is TOPES. TOPES stands for Title, Orientation, Problem, Events and Solution. The orientation answers the 'who?', 'when?', 'what?', and 'why?'. The problem is something that goes wrong in the story, the events are what the characters do in order to solve that problem, and the solution is the last things the characters do to solve the problem.

Next, we watched 2 different videos to know how to identify where the title, the orientation, the problem, the events and the solution start and stop.

After that, we came up and brainstormed our own ideas of short narratives. We then eliminated the ones we could not do, and chose one idea to build up.

Once we chose an idea, we thought about how we could turn that idea into a short narrative, that would only be one A4 page long if it was written, and 30s - 2m long if it was filmed. We planned our narrative and wrote our ideas into brief sentences.

I enjoyed brainstorming ideas for the narratives. I especially enjoyed planning out the narrative. One thing I think I could work on is adding onto ideas to make the narrative more interesting.

LI: to write a short narrative.