exercise: look at other's students sequences

Look at other student's sequences and try to answer these questions:

• What is the story?
• Wat information is conveyed in each frame?
• What information is neessary to understand the story?
• What essential information has been left out and/or what is included unnecessary?

http://rjdown-dfp-log.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/project-1-frames-in-film.html
http://digitalfilmproductionbysuzy.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/exercise-telling-a-story/

Richard and Suzy both have chosen  Jack and the beanstalk. I like both approaches and the dynamism of their stories.
In Suzy's story you can easily identify the feelings of the different characters and the giant's representation is very good, as in one of the frames you can see only his big foot trying to catch Jack.  I think the only information that has been left out is clarifying what is the object that Jack has in its hands, and that it has been stolen from the giant's house. This bit of story is very clear in Richard's frames, although the size of the giant is not as brilliantly framed as in Suzy's tale.

http://heidibocalog.wordpress.com/category/photography-degree/digital-film-production/part-one-framing/project-one-frames-in-the-film/
Heidi chose to tell the story of Santa's visit on Christmas night. The first frame shows a child placing his shock on the fireplace, then you can see him sleeping in the second frame. The third frame shows Santa's feet coming by the chimney, and then in case there were any doubts, frame 4 shows a closeup of Santa and the presents. Finally frame 5 shows the happy child finding the presents by the tree. 
Heidi has included all the information necessary, and all the frames have been very well chosen. 

http://emilyoca.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/ex1-telling-story-in-five-pictures.html
Last but not least, Emily has chosen the difficult fairytale Cinderella. I think that, exactly as it happened to me with Pinocchio, the story is too long to be summarised in only 5 frames, but in this case the chosen information helps to identify it very quickly. 
You can see in the first frame a miserable Cinderella sweeping the floor, and her two evil sisters are in the foreground with the invitation to the prince's party. Then you see a fairy giving Cinderella her beautiful dress and frame 3 shows her dancing with the prince. Finally frame 4 shows a clock indicating it's 12 o'clock and the shoe in the stairs, and frame 5 shows the prince fitting the shoe in Cinderella's foot. 
If you didn't know the story it would be difficult to understand that Cinderella has not been invited to the ball, and that she needs to be back before 12, but then, how do you show all that in just 5 frames?

Repeat the process with a story of your own:

exercise: tell a story

Tell a story using just five frames. 
Choose a simple story and sketch out five essential images that will tell it. 

For some estrange reason I decided to sketch Pinocchio and I only realised too late that it was going to be very difficult (if not impossible) to tell the full story in just five frames... so I decided to tell my favourite bit instead.

In my opinion there is room for improvement in terms of creating the scenes (the elements would give an idea of where the frame is taking place, but a richer background would have helped)... and I wonder if it would have been possible to tell the full story. 

I would like to read what do you think, please comment.