A New Narrative.

After looking at the narrative that other had created and my own, looking at the elements we wanted for each and what we where overall trying to 'say' we where still stuck. We still didn't know what we really wanted to create or which of the stories we should start off with as a basis. At the point we felt really stuck, like we had gone back to square one.

Just on the spot i came up with a simple narrative that only included the idea of two characters, one was the present self one was the past, ages where 20~ and 10~. 20 we could relate to since we are all around that age. The age of 10 we should also be able to relate to, the past character would be a child who is always questioning, always smiling and lives very much in the now on a minute to minute basis.

First Draft Narrative.

• Present self (20 year old) sitting at a bench in a train station waiting for a train. present self drops change, a child (past self age 10) helps pick up the coins. They exchange in convocation, present self begins to reflect on what it was like to be that age, they laugh about things, past self always asking questions. As the train pulls up the carriages are different things, points in the present self's life, first car, first car crashed, houses he has lived in ect.
• The driver of the train is his mother and the ticket printer is his farther. The farther is bound to the inside of the train via strings on a rail that are attached to his head body and limbs, all he can do is walk up and down the isles on the carriages printing/asking for the tickets but has no voice. his movements are pose to pose with no inbetweens but the strings that are tied to him describe the movements as if they are just fast movements, the strings follow through his movements. Everyone who has the ability to get on and off the train is himself at different points in time and are subject to the time shifting from the train. Some of the versions of himself are completely fictional, one is an online profile of himself and so is timeless.
• The train station is a timeless limbo where time stands still and there are only people on the platform (who are the same person at different points in life) waiting for a train to get on. The train, when running, creates the passage of time, time is relative to the speed of the train and the perception of it to those on board (eg an older person, having experienced more time perceives it to be faster then say, that of a ten year old)
• As the present self and past self talk on the train the exterior of the train reflects the things they are talking about and remembering. there is a much older man on the train a few seats down that only the present self can see, but only partially. Over the time in the train the 10 year old becomes the present self and the present self becomes more and more like the future self.
• The train stops and they both get up and walk to the door, the present self sits where the future self was with there back to the door, as the past self gets off the present self says 'don't forget to drop your money'.