Week 6

Principle 1: Stories

Stories are a depiction  journey with a beginning middle and end. The telling of a happening or a group of happenings either true or fiction. They help us understand ourselves and the world. Stories can come from anywhere, it could be a tale or legend, it could be news or it could be completely made up.

Stories can be generated from our own experiences our observations and our own journeys in life. Stories can be communicated in books, spoken or even with visual images. Illustrators often use images to tell a story.

Principle 2: Three act structure

The three act structure is the beginning, middle and end of a story. The setup, confrontation and resolution. You start off with the set up to start the story then the inciting incident to the rising action to the climax, then the falling action and finally the resolution.

for example:
'The girl walked into the woods soon she came across a wolf. The wolf ate the girl. The wolf then fell asleep and a woodcutter came and killed the wolf and rescued the girl from the wolfs stomach'.


We use this principle to give out story a foundation. We use the three act structure as a guideline for writing a story as having no structure at all it would not be a story. This gives meaning and turns an event into to a story. This principle is used in most stories.