Individually, you will need to:
Tell the story of ONE person that may be the audience you are relating to.
Be fictitions, but refer to you and personal connections (is it representing you, or someone close to you?)Be unbiases. Does your experience refer to a bigger group of people? How?Tell their story in first person.
Create a document with the ‘audience outline’ (previous exercise) as a continuous text.
From of this exercise you will create a Mini persona for the group presentation. You will need show a profile picture for this person (not an illustration) and include a mini bio of your audience with the following:
Name / Age / GenderCourse / UniversityGeographic location / NeighbourhoodFamily and Cultural backgroundSpecific problem they are facing
5 years ago, I fell out of a hammock, damaging my spine. The treatment after this injury was poorly handled, leaving me with chronic pain in my back and leg daily, impacting my activity levels. Seeing a doctor and specialist regularly can get expensive, even though my parents help out whenever they can. I study and work, and often the pain can impact my daily life as I struggle to sit for long periods. It also impacts my activity levels, as I had to stop playing basketball and couldn’t keep up the same levels of activity at my martial arts gym anymore. While I still try to remain active, I no longer am able to compete at a club or a professional level. My specialist recently has been trying out a treatment that requires me to track my pain levels for a period of hours after she injects a nerve blocker. It is an unpleasant experience but better than suffering with daily pain and what feels like constantly taking medication. Even though the “pain diary” the specialist gave me is only a sheet designed for a few hours, it has been an interesting process of changing how I think about my pain. I would like to track my symptoms to understand what can inflame my back and leg pain. I would also like to hopefully understand how to get back into doing the things I love without making my pain worse, even as I hold out for a solution.
Individually, you will complete the 'audience outline storytelling Download 'audience outline storytelling' and digitalise into a continuous text (in first person). You will also need to complete your mini persona of your chosen audience to be used at the group presentation.
Download 'audience outline storytelling
You will also narrate the audience's journey with a typical day’s journey from getting up to going to bed. Choose a week day or weekend, showing a situation where they face a particular issue (related to your topic choice and issue); Narrate what they eat, consume, their relationships, the type of locations they go to, etc — be as specific as possible); Narrate a few sentences or a small dialogue from this person to themselves or somebody else; You may narrate their thoughts or a conversation. Select five images that help you to illustrate their journey from beginning to end.
You can use the Indesign Download Indesignand PDF Download PDFtemplate here.