Post 7: Creating Your Own Script

During our lesson, we were asked to individually explain for one minute what we did the night before.   We thought that this would be an easy task as a minute isn't long. We all however found it a lot harder than it first seemed & for most of us.  We rushed though our events without putting them in detail and when telling our stories we chose to leave out what we thought was irrelevant for the audience to hear. This was done by using our passed experiences  such as telling friends stories and knowing what the audience will find interesting to listen to.

When it came to the turn of our teacher,  we then realised how we could have improved by giving it in a lot more detail & still being able to keep it under a minute. During our lesson, we were given the task to come up with script ideas that we could possibly use for our 6 minute short film task that we have to do.

We also looked at the different models of narrative from Propp, Todorov, Levis-Strauss and Barthes, each had very different ideas into narrative and what is the most common form of narrative.

• Propp - Thought that there are 8 different types of characters that is always present in fairy tales, & these where Hero, Villain, Princess, Helper, Donor, Dispatcher, False Hero & Princesses Father. He also thought that there are only 31 different actions that these characters can do.

• Todorov - Thought that there will always be Equilibrium, which is the normal narrative, Dis-Equilibrium, which is something that will change the narrative, and also new Equilibrium, which is the narrative that will carry on but only because of what happened in dis-equilibrium.

• Levis-Strauss - Thought that there is always Binary Opposites such as Good Vs Evil & Hero Vs Villain.

• Barthes - Thought that there is always Enigmas, which is a raising question that the audience will carry on watching to answer this question, however an audience will have a different interoperation.

In class we looked at this Power Point to help conclude or ideas on Narrative and understand better and in more detail: http://klsmediadepartment.blogspot.com/2010/10/narrative-theory-powerpoint.html

We then looked at another short film that focused on getting us to understand social realist films which was to draw our attention to a short film that has a significantly simplier message.


Below Is The Following Short Film 'Signs'




Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0HNWto0UY