Penny

Our first task was to bring in 5 personal objects, the objects I brought in include a key necklace, which I received for my 16th birthday present and a purse with dalmatians on it. We each used our objects to come up with ideas for 6 characters. We then made up three unique stories with one main character and a plot, following the theories of Aristotle. This theory exclaims that there is an introduction/ exposition, a complication rising action during the middle of the story, a climax, then a peripety/turning point, falling action, and at the very end; new stability. We followed these rules to come up with a story of our own. 

Penny the Purse

We came up with the idea of a purse, named penny. The character needed to have mental pain in her life, so we wanted to chose something that would give her immediate sympathy from the viewer so we decided that she was depressed from the fact that she is a purse and doesn't have legs. The first picture (above) was supposed to she her, quite lonely and depressed, on her first step as she is unable to climb any higher as she is limbless. To gain more sympathy from the viewer, we said that she had attempted suicide, this explains the second picture in the image above, the jumps from the first step. Unfortunately for her, as she wasn't able to climb high enough for the suicide to kill her, so she gets back on her feet, and tries to see the bright side of things. The third picture shows her 'seeing the light' as she decides she wants to do something about her depression. She then uses her savings to buy legs for an operation she had been dreaming about. She buys the legs cheaply from a black market, this is why they appear different in the 4th picture. She is given them and, to her, they appear to be given to her by the hand of god (metaphorically). The 5th picture shows her on a higher step as she has the legs to be able to climb higher, which makes us feel happy as the viewer because she has got what she has always dreamed of. The last picture shows her feeling adventurous and wanted to explore the outside world. This story has a happy ending and we wanted to make the plot so that the viewer would feel a range of different emotions in only 6 photos. 

I enjoyed this task as we discovered what makes a good movie from Aristotle's theory. In some ways I thought our story was successful, in the way that it makes the viewer feel different emotions, but it is only set in one area. It is also not very colourful and it doesn't show penny as a hero because we feel as if she didn't earn the legs, but only received them from the hand of god. We could've improved this by adding another picture showing how she could've earned the money for the legs, this makes us feel as if she earned them more and worked hard for them.