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Lesson 9.1: Digital Storytelling - Adapting Fairy Tales

Welcome, digital directors! Today, you’ll take a classic story and become the director of its brand-new animated movie. We’ll learn the secret of all great stories—the three-part structure—and use it to plan and build our own digital fairy tales.

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:

  • Break down a story into its three main parts: beginning, middle, and end.
  • Plan your own three-scene story using a storyboard.
  • Program a story with different scenes that connect to each other.
  • Combine your amazing programming skills with your creativity as a storyteller.

Your Director’s Plan

The Secret of a Great Story (15 minutes)

  • Let’s look at a classic fairy tale, like “The Three Little Pigs.” We’ll find the three main parts:
    • The Beginning: We meet the characters and learn the setting.
    • The Middle: The characters face a problem or go on an adventure.
    • The End: The problem is solved!
  • We’ll choose a simple fairy tale to adapt for our project. The goal is to retell it in three simple scenes.

Your Director’s Storyboard (15 minutes)

  • Every great director uses a storyboard to plan their movie. It’s like a comic strip that shows what will happen in each scene.
  • On your storyboard template, you’ll sketch out your three scenes:
    • Scene 1 (Beginning): Who are your characters? Where are they?
    • Scene 2 (Middle): What is the main action or problem?
    • Scene 3 (End): How does it all wrap up?
  • Think about how your characters will move and how you’ll switch from one scene to the next.

Lights, Camera, Action! (15 minutes)

  • Time to start programming your story in Scratch Jr.!
  • Your first goal is to build your three scenes and add your characters.
  • Program the main action for each scene and think about how to make your characters move.
  • We’ll learn how to make the story automatically go from scene 1 to scene 2, and then to scene 3.

Sneak Peek! (5 minutes)

  • Let’s share the first scene of our stories.
  • Get some feedback from your friends. Does it look interesting? Do they want to see what happens next?

Your Director’s Toolkit

  • A few simple fairy tale books to choose from
  • Storyboard templates for planning your three scenes
  • Your device with Scratch Jr.

How to Be a Great Director

  • Your storyboard will show how well you can plan a simple, three-part story.
  • The Scene Test: Can you successfully create three different scenes and make them connect in the right order?
  • Your creativity in retelling a classic story in your own style is what will make it shine!

New Tech Words to Master

  • Adaptation: Taking an existing story and changing it to fit a new style (like turning a book into a movie!).
  • Storyboard: A series of drawings that shows the plan for each scene in a movie or animation.
  • Scene Transition: The way you move from one scene to the next.
  • Narrative Structure: The basic plan of a story (for us, it’s a beginning, middle, and end).