Art people, I call on you for help!

[owlectomy]

My assignment for my art of the picture book class is to tell a story using only 4-6 images. How do I do this?

Bonus question: Having very little artistic talent, these will most likely be photographs of Carrboro and environs. Knowing that, how do I do this?

If all else fails, I'll do 'I ride my bike around the city with no particular narrative intent,' but I know artists, so I ought to be able to come up with something better. Yeah, yeah, I read manga--but I'm still not a visual person in the least.

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Cant log in right now, but this is Meaghan

[(Anonymous)]

I guess there's 2 ways you could really go about this. I don't see a problem with you going around Carrboro, taking interesting pictures (As many as you can fit on your memory card, but I'd say at least 30-40... More if possible) and then coming back home, looking at them on your computer, and trying to come up with a narrative from there. I don't know if you remember when they gave us some sort of a test in kindergarten or one of the earlier grades; someone showed us pictures and we had to make up a story from the pictures. You could treat your own pictures like that; even if you were personifying buildings, or the city itself.

The other thing you could do is come up with a narrative first, using what you know of Carrboro. Again, I'm assuming you're not using people; just personifying the city/buildings.

Alternately, if you wanted someone to 'star' in a story, I'm sure you could have someone you know pose for photographs, if you created a narrative with a character.

Try looking in books of photographs. Not many tell stories, but you often get a really clear sense of a place or idea from them.

The first thing I thought of was the NYC power outage a couple years ago, and the photo that was on every magazine cover in the country: Many thousands of people pouring out over the Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Manhattan, and 59th street bridges. That could be part of a narrative starring NYC; you don't even have to have a character who is involved. 'New Yorkers' become a plural protagonist. Lights on, lights off. People holding on to railings, going down 50 flights of darkened stairwells holding flashlights. Civilians directing traffic because traffic lights aren't working. Crossing the bridges. The stars- which you never see in NYC.

If it were me, I'd try to base it around an event like that. But that's just because it's easy, and I'm lazy ^__________________^

PS. email me your phone number, I want to call you sometime. meaghanhorner@hotmail.com
Oh, yeah, but you're phone's not working, right? Send it to me anyway, and let me know when it's working.