Historical Story

Creative Statement

The original inspiration that came for this story was Josh’s story about his grandpa who stole candy from a Japanese graveyard. From that idea a ton of ideas snowballed.  Christina brought some good ideas to the table.  She had the idea to have the exposition of the story start out with the two boys playing with toys and having one toy die and go to the graveyard. From that point John asks, have you ever been to a graveyard? This moment in the story creates a motivation for the kids to go to the graveyard.  She also originally thought of the Idea of having the ghost come back and haunt the kid. After editing the piece down, we decided to have John put his candy back so as to make the story more personal and focus the story more on Lenny.

From the reading, The Viel the author makes a historical setting very personal by making the historical account center around her. When my grandpa told me the story of how superstitious the Japanese culture was when he was a kid, it was very personal because it was told from a first person perspective.

An inspirational media for this project stemmed from the movie “Oh Brother, where art thou?” The Coen brothers tied a historical narrative and comedy together to immerse and engage their audience in their story.  The idea of tying in comedy into a historical narrative is unique because many historical narratives focus on serious big issues such as wars, kingdoms, and important people of the centuries. choosing to focus on an ordinary person of a certain time period, and make it comedic, makes the story less cliché and more unique.

Overall, if we had more time, we would have liked to make revisions; however, we fill that this story is a good start and will help us when we work on future projects in the program.

Here is the link to our Script

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8JULhdBBUPaMVZxTE1UTy04dUE/edit?usp=sharing