Session 1 Only: THIRDSPACE Masterclass with Erdem Tasdelen | Staging Narratives

Staging Narratives 

This three-part master class introduces technical and conceptual strategies for working across graphic design, moving image and sound as narrative tools. Each session is based on a specific project from my practice, and highlights a different medium to show how stories can be staged and reimagined across forms. Through hands-on exercises, participants will develop skills in writing, image-making and sound design, while approaching narrative as a flexible, experimental process. 

Session 1

This session will draw from Erdem's project Unmade Films, in which he designed posters for imaginary movies. Participants will be introduced to techniques for using text to create narrative frameworks, employing the ready-made form of a movie poster to “stage” their narratives. They will design posters for films that they will never make, learning how writing and image can articulate narratives that remain speculative, fragmentary and provisional. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Use text and image to construct speculative narrative frameworks  

• Apply design principles to create a cohesive movie poster composition  

• Experiment with narrative as fragmentary and unresolved rather than fixed  

• Develop basic skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for layout and image-making  

• Produce a draft printed poster that stages an imagined film narrative