Creativity in Style
Pictogram
Madeleine CHAN 陳綺雯
Student of SM2105 Narrative Strategies and Aesthetics of Time-based Media
Abstract
This is a set of pictograms as secondary transmedia recreation of 5 (out of 99) episodes of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style (1958 edition). During the creation of this work, I explore the diverging trajectories narrative method can bring to a story idea, in terms of how small details are hidden in the lines of words and how they transform the basic account. My pictograms combine the characteristics of musical score, chronology, cartography and symbolist metaphor (sign sequence) incorporated into a visible timeline. Even though pictograms are all images, viewers will be able to notice the change over time of the event. Each version of my pictogram is a new and different way to narrativize the story, thereby I invite my viewers to follow the route I design — which is the timeline, marked with signals, symbols and words — in order to see the story’s many shapes and details in full.
