Lucy made us stand around in a circle, then she gave us the first line for a story. Each student then had to add another line to the story.
Lucy’s first line was:
” On a street in Rome … ”
The next participant said: ”There is pizzeria, and a chef is making pizza dough….”
At first the students couldn’t come up with a line to the narrative. So Lucy put a sign up on the board with the following statements:
”There is no failure in this room!”
”This is a safe space.”
“All ideas are welcome.”
“Today is about playing.”
This reassured the group who then loosened up and started to have fun and play around with the concept.
Lucy then introduced us to a sad fairy story about a farmer who had seven sons but wanted a baby girl. This episode of magical realism was inspired by Lucy’s love of fairy stories like Aesop’s Fables / Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
This was exercise to get our imagination flowing and our creativity firing on all cylinders.
This exercise has helped me when considering storylines for my future animations.
To energise the group Lucy introduced us to the game ‘Zip! Zap! Boing!’ this game really gave us the energy we after the post lunch slack feeling and tiredness. I really found Lucy’s session interesting as she taught me to identify ”The Bones of a story.”