We got creative about announcing our little love story to our friends.
For quite a while, we have been together, of course enjoying each others company and getting along even more and all done behind the scenes. Although some of our friends could tell we have something going on but they weren't quite sure. So we decided to tell our love story through art.
THE ACT OF STORYTELLING THROUGH ART
This was thought through by him and i totally loved the idea and we go to work. We sort to tell a story of dualism as we already have the pet names "Yin" "Yang", which is an ancient chinese philosophy that conceptualizes DUALISM.
In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (/jɪn/ and /jɑːŋ, jæŋ/; Chinese: 陰陽 yīnyáng, lit. "dark-bright", "negative-positive") is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another
We first sort to understanding the act of storytelling, the decided our little unveiling into three stages leaving our friends to keep guessing until the final hint and then our announcement. Before i get into the gist, let's talk about the act of storytelling.
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THE ACT OF STORYTELLING.
Stories express thoughts, explain the unknown, detail history, imagine the future, bring context to situations and caution of consequences.
We had a message and we wanted to share with our friends and so:
First, We wanted to communicate a message. This is what defines every other step you'd take or make in your storytelling process. First, give your story an essence, a purpose; would you want your story to be ENGAGING, EXCITING, ENTERTAINING, SADDENING OR CONVERTING in some cases like storytelling for marketing.
Second, we went ahead to pick the hero. In this case, it was Yin-Yang. We wanted to explain our love story through this concept, so we were not in the story even though the story was about us. The hero could be a person or an object.
Third, we wanted to make it visual. This was where we had the idea of draw some images. We contemplated on what to draw. We thought of integrating images of us into the Yin-Yang image but that was going to be too easy to decipher. We thought of using our in-game characters, but again that was going to be too easy.
We decided to got for our matching bracelets.
Yep!!! Our first attempt at telling a story was to give our friends a puzzle that made them anxious for more. This might not exactly work for business then if you have a pleasurable brand, your audience would stay expectant.
We deployed the first hint which was the maze symbol in our bracelet. Let me know if you see the maze symbol in the bracelet down in the comment.
This is the image of the image we sent to our friends. They had so many funny guesses we just kept laughing. We had some say we were starting a clothing brand. No one could tell this was in anyway related to our love story, they could only thing of us creating a logo for a brand we had plans to build.
We made sure not to keep them for so long. In your storytellin process, suspend could be good but when over stretched, it becomes boring and people begin to forget you gave them something to think about.
We got the second image ready. This was the bracelet in unisim to tell a story of oneness.This part was quite easy to decipher but then, our friends still couldn't tell it was I and my partner. However, they could only guess this had to do with either marriage or an engagement.
Again, we wanted the kind of engagement we got. Again, our aim was achieved, but it was long until our friend began to get agitated. They were curious and it seemed like they weren't having it anymore. So, we put a price on it, to keep them busy trying to figure this out.
Question: Would you have tried figuring this out cause of the price or just cause you wanted to show you were a smart head?
We dropped the last image, which was the image of us holding hands and then we made our big announcement. We explained our idea, sold our concept of oneness and dualism and we had more feedbacks as to how that was a creative way to let the cat out of the bag and we got lot of congratulatory messages afterwards. We had fun with this, so i decided to share my experience of using art as a storytelling tool.
In the art of storytelling, you also have to keep it short and straight to the point. This is what i have tried to do with my post too. So let me know:
- Are you willing to tell visual stories through art ?
- Would you let me know when you tell your first visual story?
- Would you like to see more of my drawings and art works?
Thank you for reading. I have a surreal art series you should look forward to. I would also share screenshots of my processes, just to help you understand how i make my surreal art designs.
Until Next time