Storytelling
This post will be similar to the mood board posts for landscape and architecture but this focuses on storytelling through various methods.
This intro story is found within the film Lady in the Water, i find it to be a strong piece of story telling. For certain the narration and soundtrack which accompany it set a very strong tone for the piece but i also feel the simplistic form of illustrations used reflect the time scale of the story but also make it very iconic. Its minimal form stops any graphically accurate picture forming as to how these creatures look or their scale. It allows the viewer to add his or her own thoughts into the story line which allows a certain amount of imaginative freedom similar to that of a book.
Another prologue story line I remember being particularly strong is that of the introduction to the world of Watership Down. Once again the prologue has had a different style to that of the rest of the story line and in both cases the style is far more abstract than the rest of the story line. This abstract style to me creates a more exadurated feel to the story and to an extent this difference removes itself from the reality it is set in giving a more mythical feel about it.
Once again the backstory is created to be more abstract than the rest of the story resulting in an accurate detail of how events have proceeded but because of the visual differences between the two sets of stories it feels some what removed from the events, as if we are not sure these are true the result is an air of mystery and intrigue.
