Since what we created yesterday was a short story, I decide that the alternative meaning of a story would then be different perspectives of viewing the same story.
Our original story, in a nutshell, was about destruction: alien throwing bombs on earth then getting into a fight with the protagonists that eventually blew up Earth. To view this story from another standpoint:
- It doesn’t have to be destruction: an alien notices that Earth is very underdeveloped while the rulers of Earth have extravagant lifestyle. Therefore, in hope of saving Earth, this alien engages in a bloody fight with the rulers that, unexpectedly, blew up Earth.
- It doesn’t have to be in the setting of alien and Earth: like in a movie scene, the antagonist could be simply some crazy psycopath that, for some mysterious, is angry at the lovely couple. Those abstract lines that Jason drew all just served as the psycopath’s crazy mind, which eventually, prompts him to attack the couple.
- It doesn’t have to be about fighting: the drawings could be divided into two parts separated by this picture
This picture serves as a date of this couple. Pictures before this are their moods before date (happy, as illustrated by the happy face) and pictures after this are their moods after date (angry, as illustrated by the unsynchronized lines).
4. It doesn’t have to be a bad ending: our original story ends with the Earth blowing up, which is considered as a bad ending. However, we can see the drawings as what happened to the alien so that the Earth is not what blows up, the alien is.
5. It doesn’t have to be about super power: our original story assumes Alice and Bob to have super power, which is normally not the case for human beings. So, it could be a total loss for the humans and the world is just easily destroyed by the alien.
Five ways of illustrating this
I decide to illustrate my second re-interpretation. The following are possible means I could use:
- I could tell another full story.
- I could draw a set of comics
- I could make a video of this
- I could make a collage of the key elements presented in the story
- I could make a small game with the psychopath being the protagonist
I chose the fourth choice, and the following is what I made
