To start off a project I made this infographic story map of a fairytale of which should inspire the further design process. The fairytale is "The Moon" by the Grimm brothers, and the map breaks down the storyline, visualising how the story exists in parallel worlds and sometimes in the space between.
The first two pictures show the full story (to be placed next to each other), where the top strip shows events from "Heaven", the bottom strip from "the Underworld" and the two inbetween from two different countries.
Following are some close up detail pictures.
It was a useful (as well as fun!) tool, that captured the story in a systemic view, leaving opportunities to intervene and take inspiration from several parts of the story.
"In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity..."
The first two pictures show the full story (to be placed next to each other), where the top strip shows events from "Heaven", the bottom strip from "the Underworld" and the two inbetween from two different countries.
Following are some close up detail pictures.
It was a useful (as well as fun!) tool, that captured the story in a systemic view, leaving opportunities to intervene and take inspiration from several parts of the story.
"In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity..."
"...The travellers stopped and asked a countryman who was driving past with his cart, what kind of a light that was. "That is the moon," answered he; our mayor bought it for three thalers, and fastened it to the oak-tree..."
"...when one of them grew ill, and saw that he was about to die, he appointed that one quarter of the moon, should, as his property, be laid in the grave with him..."
"... When, however, the pieces of the moon had united themselves together again in the world below, where darkness had always prevailed, it came to pass that the dead became restless and awoke from their sleep (...) Some of them went to the play and to dance, others hastened to the public-houses, where they asked for wine, got drunk, brawled, quarreled, and at last took up cudgels, and belabored each other. The noise became greater and greater, and at last reached even to heaven..."
To find out what happens when St. Peter finds out about the party in the underworld - look up the full story! :)
To find out what happens when St. Peter finds out about the party in the underworld - look up the full story! :)
