Group Narrative - Miss G

What is the purpose of a narrative?

The purpose of narrative is to engage the audience and inform them about the story.

We discussed our ideas by brainstorming different thriller conventions and what we would like to see within a thriller clip. We also looked at what scares the audiences the most during films and from that we began forming an idea on what our thriller will be based about.

The advantages of a narrative are that it expresses your point of you which enables the audience to gain different perspectives into your story. You can base your narrative on a real life event either way it will sound impressive. An advantage to this is it has loads of good codes and convention like low key lighting from the stated settings. A Disadvantage to this is it would be hard to film the scenes without getting unwanted people in the background or noises the will distracted the viewers.

Vladimir Propp (1985-1970)  pioneering in the analysis of narrative folk tales, Propp was a russian critic who introduced a whole new theory to the film industry. His main focus was on the narrative of folk tales and his in depth analysis on what pieced the narrative together. This allowed us to experience different elements of the story such as the characters. The narrative function provides a structure for the story.The character analysis is conventional to most folk tales as seen below - 

The hero's main aim in the narrative is to seek something rewarding or statutorily advanced.
The villain must oppose the hero's quest to attain the reward.
The dispatcher's obligated to send the hero onto the quest or mission.
The false hero is employed to disrupt the hero's sucess by making false claims.
The helper is used to aid the hero in their time of need.
The princess is usually the reward for the hero.
The father of the princess usually rewards the hero with the princess as an act of respect. 

Tzvetan Todorov was a bulgarian struturist who puplished influential work on narrative structure. Todorov proposed that there are 5 fundemental elements to narrative which are as follows

- a state of equilibrium  which simply means all should be as it is.
- a disruption of the equilibrium by some action.
- a recognition that there has been a disruption.
- an attempt to repair the disruption
- a reinstatement of the equilibrium.
 

This theory is particularly mainstream in the film industry and it is the one that i will use.
 
 

 

Everyone in my group wrote up and individual narrative saying what will happen in each scene what types of character, camera shots, edit etc we could use. We looked at the advantages and disadvantages of each idea and created a narrative to use in our thriller clip. 

The people who are part of my group narrative are : James Edwards, Nathaliah Makki and Leandra Saunders.

Storyline

Characters

            
Setting

This film will be rated a 15 because it will have scenes of a sexual nature and maybe some use of drugs and violence.

Codes and Conventions

- Low key lighting

- Shock

- Surprise

- Suspence

- Tention

- Stalking

- Chase

- Background music