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Video summary

What happens when the words on the page aren鈥檛 enough to tell the story?

Anthony Horowitz introduces writers of young adult fiction such as David Almond and Eoin Colfer who have experimented with form to create exciting new ways of storytelling.

Using the example of David Almond鈥檚 The Savage, the commentary explores the way that Dave McKean鈥檚 illustrations incorporate graphic elements to the story, and how this then influences the story itself.

The words and images operate together to construct the story, and, by combining elements of the past and present actually combine to create a futuristic form of storytelling.

Character and visual representations build narrative and even invent language through fractured spelling.

Eoin Colfer then explains how his Artemis Fowl series builds on the tradition of comic strips to bring new life to the traditional adventure story and creates an alternative way of storytelling to reach a wider readership.

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Teacher Notes

Students could adapt an extract from an existing text into an experimental graphic form, exploring some of the Artemis Fowl fan sites for inspiration.

This clip will be relevant for teaching English Language at KS3 and KS4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4 and 5 in Scotland.

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