The purpose of a narrative is to create a sense of knowing with regards to what the film is going to be about and therefore sets the scene and emotions that are required for the audience to feel in order for the plot to be at its' best. In our group narrative, my group and I have conversed and got feed back on the advantages and disadvantages on eachothers narrative ideas and how we can include all of our advantages to create a strong opening clip full of shock, suspense and surprise.
My group and I worked together to discuss our individual ideas by reading through eachothers ideas to begin with, and then annotating all of the positive effects used within eachothers ideas in order to sustain a good outcome with what our opening clip will be about and by using all of eachothers good ideas, we will create a strong piece of work. After we had gone through eachothers work and picked out the advantages and disadvantages, we decided to have a group discussion where each of us took part in contributing in, we put together a brainstorm post with notes to help us produce our ideas with effects that compliment eachother and our idea.
George Moore, a member of my group, hasn't an original plot as such so we was unable to pull the advtanges out of it and try and include in our group narrative, however, he produced a lot of useful conventions that we can use in our work and so therefore it allows us to create a better narrative because we are able to see all of the conventions of a thriller film, and how we can use them. Therefore because there was no ideas with a narrative, my group and I were unable to produce many creative ideas from George, but his knowledge and understanding of each element used within a thriller helped us create a good opening clip for our own narrative which leaves us with quiet an advantage.
My idea contains inspiration from the film 'Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Paranormal Activity'. My narrative is about a young boy has this nightmares but actually this nightmares are real, yet he isn't aware of this, and he ends up getting abused in a sort of way by this mysterious person in an anoymous mask, that for example, when his breath would be cold against the hot air, something bad would happen, in this occasion this masked character would become present and drag the young boy off his bed whilst he is asleep, but the boy wakes up and finds himself on the floor and very confused so it creates a lot of sense of engima, and would play on the audiences mind. My group were able to pick out the points that would come at an advantage for our group narrative for example in sixth sense when the main character is about to be part of something he didn't want to, he would breathe cold air that would go against the heat and create a puff of condensation appears, and my group would like to use this idea and have put it forward for when we do our opening clip.
Vasil Nikolov is another member of my group and we found his ideas very useful and creative. His idea followed good techniques used within thrillers, for example his narrative consists of a man coming home to an unusually empty house to find his wife has gone missing, a series of events happens over phone call where the husband will find his wife hanging in their room, and it becomes a race against time for the husband to get out of the house but is killed. As a group we particularly liked how he had used inspirations from other films to create this idea of a few combined together to make his idea more edgy and therefore more effective on the audience because there are so many ideas going on at once. Though, there was a small disadvantage with his work, despite the excellent idea there were some pieces that seemed very similar to a lot of films which means it's not unique, however with some tweeking we was able to produce a very different idea for an opening clip.
Therefore because the group and I decided the ideas were very strrong, we have gone with Vasil's idea. We thought it would be a good idea to use Vasil's narrative as a plot for our opening clip because we believe that it contains a lot of flexibility and we will be able include a lot of things with features from our own individual narratives inorder to produce a high standard piece of work.
This post demonstrates some planning techniques, but it is difficult to understand some of the points that you have included. Therefore, you need to ensure that you have read over your work.
ReplyDeleteYou have made a start in including points on your group members narrative, but you also need to include points on George's narrative, to support the points that you have included on the conventions.
Finally, you have made a start in explaining the three different narrative theories, but further explanation of the theories is needed throughout. You also need to elaborate on the points that you have included on Todorov, by discussing your group narrative and how it supports the theory in more detail.