Picture Books
We want you to help us tell a story. Picture Books hopes to bring together the residents of a town or village as collaborative storytellers. A Moving Picture Book, if you will, captured on film – a communal Jackanory. The process begins with the selection of a book – a novella, children’s book, or short story. Once selected, the story is divided into segments of a few sentences each, and everyone in the town invited to grab a segment and go. People can submit their own film version of the lines, or they can ask us to film speaking their contribution. They can animate the lines, set them to music, sing them, mime them with added subtitles, paint them on a wall…however it’s done, the end result will be a fantastic story told to camera, to be played as often as you like. Final stage: we get the largest hall we can find and present the book to the people who have made it (and all their friends and family). This project is being developed in partnership with Lewes Live Literature. Keep an eye out here, or in local newspapers, as to when and how you might become one of our storytellers.
We want you to help us tell a story. Picture Books hopes to bring together the residents of a town or village as collaborative storytellers. A Moving Picture Book, if you will, captured on film – a communal Jackanory. The process begins with the selection of a book – a novella, children’s book, or short story. Once selected, the story is divided into segments of a few sentences each, and everyone in the town invited to grab a segment and go. People can submit their own film version of the lines, or they can ask us to film speaking their contribution. They can animate the lines, set them to music, sing them, mime them with added subtitles, paint them on a wall…however it’s done, the end result will be a fantastic story told to camera, to be played as often as you like. Final stage: we get the largest hall we can find and present the book to the people who have made it (and all their friends and family). This project is being developed in partnership with Lewes Live Literature. Keep an eye out here, or in local newspapers, as to when and how you might become one of our storytellers.