Assignment 7 - week 1

For this week, we are required to come up with a storyline and rough sketches.

Conceptualizing the storyline:

We went to Children section in the library. We looked through the books that are in the section. Basically, most of the stories are about the having an adventure. This is a good way to educate the children on what is right and wrong. Therefore, we decided to have an adventure story as we wanted to incorporate the element of moral in it.

Our rough storyline:

- character find life lonely and bored
- character hopes for an adventure
- character wishes upon a star
- the wish is granted

- character managed to go on a journey
- character makes new friends
- character drop into the river
- character was injured in the river

- character came to a riverbed
- character meets a fairy
- fairy grants character a wish

- character uses his wish to gain a special ability
- character makes use of his special ability to continue
on the journey
- the special ability wears off
- character is ignored once the special ability wears off


For the character, we wanted something different. We doesn't want to have a human or an animal as a character as it is too common. In addition, we want to have a reason why the character feels that life is boring. It is not sufficient to just said that it is boring. After discussing, we decided to use a stone as the character. Reason is that the stone cannot move hence it will feel bored and lonely. The hard part is that as a stone cannot move how can it has an adventure?
We decided to have someone to come along to pick it up and throughout the whole journey, things will happened in such a way that the stone can continue on the journey. The things that enabled the stone to move from one place to another must make sense. Therefore, we came up with the following:

The actions that enable the stone to continue the journey:

- Pick up by someone
- Accidentally drop by someone
- Carry by the river
- The special ability allows the stone to be on the journey again
- Special ability: being able to talk

The ending should be able to illustrate the moral we want to convey across.
The moral we want to convey is that “What seems to be a good thing could also be your hardest experience in your life”

The ending:

- stone was noticed by someone due to the fact that it can talk
- when the ability to talk wears off
- stone is forgotten
- stone is used to balance the table that has a short leg


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Putting everything together we came up with the story below:

The Adventure of Greyie

Once upon a time, there is a stone, name Greyie, who feels bored and lonely who hopes to be able to go on an exciting journey. At that night, he looks at the stars and wishes that he can leave the place and able to explore the world. He kept thinking about it and feels tired after a while. (zzzzzZZZZZ)

He saw a man walking toward him. He was very happy and excited. (hoping that he can leave the place) As the man get closer who is a stone collector, name, put his collector bag on the ground. “Name of collector” reached his hand to picked up greyie and dropped him into his bag. To Greyie surprised, he saw many other stones and he feels very happy. He made a lot of new friends and start talking to them. Name of stone collector continued his journey to collect more stone. “Name of stone collector” found a few beautiful stones near a river. He was too excited that he dropped his bag onto the ground near the river. Most of the stones fell out of the bag and unlucky, only greyie was being rolled into the river. The stone collector didn’t notice it. Greyie was being carried away by the heavy river current flow. As being carried away, he was being banged and knocked by some objects. He was seriously injured and bruised. Finally, he arrived on a riverbed.

He meets a fairy who happened to be resting at the riverbed. The fairy saw greyie had bruised all around him and felt sorry for him, so she decided to give greyie the ability to communicate for five days. Greyie was very thankful to the fairy who gave him an ability to talk. He was so happy that his voice can be heard by other. A boy happened to pass by the riverbed; he saw greyie and picked him up.

Greyie communicate with the boy and hope that he can bring him anywhere he goes, so that he will be able to explore the world. The boy was shock that the stone can talk at first and he found it interesting too. Therefore, he replied with a “yes” and greyie was very happy and thought that he will have a very good experience journey with the boy. The boy put greyie on to his study desk with one unbalanced leg and starts talking with greyie. Greyie thought that he was very lucky that the boy always keep him accompany almost everyday. After five day, the stone loses it ability to communicate and the boy stop talking with him. Greyie was being ignored and put under the unbalanced table’s desk leg. All of a sudden, greyie woke up with lot of sweat. Greyie finally realize that “What seems to be a good thing could also be your hardest experience in your life”.
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