Graphic narrative – folktales
- 1. Graphic Narrative – Folktales The well of the World’s End Summary – the story focus on a young girl who’s mother has died and is now tormented by her stepmother who is jealous of her beauty, the step mother sets her a task of going to the well of the worlds end and bring back some waterin a sieve as she thinks this is impossible. The girl goes, discovers a talking frogs whotells her how to carry the water back but she has topromise to do whatever the frog bid of her for a whole night long. She agrees and later that night the frog comes to her house, she does whathe bids as forcedto by her stepmother and in the end the frog bids her to cutoff his head, hesitantly at first she doesn’t want to but once she does the frog changes to a prince and he tells her he was cursed to being until a girl did what ever he bid fora whole night. Characters The story features 3 characters, the main girl, the evil stepmother and the frog/prince. This will be easy for me to illustrate, as there is little characters. Location The first location will be the home of the girl and her stepmother; she then travels into town looking for the well of the worldsend and finally the well its self. There is only 3 main locations to this story makingillustration easier for me later on. Audience The story is suitable for a youngaudience, the main character is a girl so could appealto a youngfemaleaudiencerather then a male, however with this story I will aim to meet a youngaudienceof both male and female. Style Visually for this story I plan to create a cartoon style story with suitable illustrations for a youngaudience, the characters and location will be effectively portrayed in cartoon style. Adaptation This story can easily be adapted in a number of differentways, my first idea would be to set it in modern time, with a younggirlliving in modern day London. Thefrogis instead a rat and the well of the worldsend is instead a McDonald’swhere she must usea refillable cup with holes in the bottom. I could also change the setting to the future, the setting being space and the frogbeing an alien frog with multiple eyes, the well is instead space gunk and instead of a sieve she mustuse a bottomless bucket.