Narrative

1. Narrative Coventry Blitz How emotion drives narrative

2. Narrative • Story telling – beginning, middle and end • Narratives of events: Background / data (where, what happened, why, who was effected) Eye witness accounts (making story credible?) • Mindful of – political, social, ideological agendas • Cultural contexts and backdrops • Emotion driving narratives (anger / sadness)

3. Task You will research Coventry Blitz via online resources (images, accounts, YouTube). Through your research you must script a 3 minute narrative about the Blitz. You need to decide if the narrative you are producing is for an audience in the 1940s (a night or so after the Blitz) or if your narrative has been produced for the present day, looking back.  The narrative must include the 'voice' of someone who has lived through the Blitz. The narrative you will script needs to be mindful of who you are scripting this for, the purpose (political?) and what responses you want to achieve. • Its up to you if you want this to be a news story or part of a documentary • You need to write the script on your blog and be ready to read this to the rest of the group at the end of the session You must think about how the power of emotion, storytelling, first-hand experience and first-hand accounts helps in conveying history and how it may also help the propaganda machine.

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