Group Narrative
The purpose of a narrative is to create a story line that is suspenseful for the the audience in the thriller genre also it's to draw the audience into the story line. The narrative is a series of events that contains suspense,shock and surprise in the thriller genre. We discussed our narrative to each other throughout our lesson followed by telling each other the positives and negatives of each one of our narratives.
My narrative was the first one we discussed and this of which involved a paranoid child which was ignored by his parents this ended in the ghost murdering the child in front of the family with a butcher knife. An advantage of this idea would be it would contain a lot of suspense and shock and it would draw the viewers in also there is a teenage victim that would help the younger audience if they were able to watch the sequence itself. A disadvantage is you cannot film a ghost and it will be difficult to fake a death with a butcher knife also we do not have the equipment to create this idea as it will be hard to get people who want to act as parents within the opening sequence to a thriller film.
The second narrative that we discussed was Tom's and the narrative is about a couple staying in a house in the mountains, the first night there are noises from upstairs so she goes to find out what is making the noises, she finds a locked room which the house owner doesn't want her to see. This happens for a few nights and then one night the male goes missing, she then goes onto find that her husband has been taken and murdered in the room even though the husband didn't believe that the room existed, as she tries to rescue him she is trapped in the room herself. Advantages to this narrative is that it is quite simple therefore it will be easy to film. However it is a very long opening sequences therefore we could not film it all.
The third narrative was Devon's and the narrative is that a male and female are walking late at night through a forest and they hear noises, the man goes to check for danger and leaves the woman alone. She waits for his return yet he does not come back for a while, she feels as if she is being watched so she decides to head out of the forest. As she is walking the noises return and she starts to run, as she is being chased she trips over a figure on the floor. It is her boyfriends dead corpse. Advantages to this narrative is that it would be easy excess to the location and the story line is very simple. However it will be hard to film during dark hours as the lighting will not be very clear.
The first professional theory that we looked at was a Russian critic called Vladimir Propp and he expressed the fact that every film has a different character with a function for example a hero's function would be that they would seek a goal during the film with deliberate interruptions along the way and the villains function would be to try and block the supposed quest from the hero.
The second professional theory that our group looked at was Todorov and he thought that there were five stages of the narrative and that there should be an equilibrium. Todorov thought that a film should have a change of events for example disorders then problems then there is an attempt to fix this problem that has happened and after the problem has been resolved there is a new equilibrium. Todorov also believed that certain films were all about the narrative and the equilibrium and disequilibrium that was involved.
The third theory that we looked at was a person called Aristotle and he believed that a film should include an exciting incident, a dramatic question, a goal set for a character, an antagonist and a protagonist, high stakes,a well thought out resolution and either sympathy or empathy in the film.
To summarise I believe our groups narrative will follow Todorov's theory as I think it would be the most successful one for the groups narrative as our groups narrative involves a equilibrium and an attempt of a change of actions also I believe the theory of Aristoltle would be a good theory to follow as it has an antagonist and protagonist that is already in our narrative .
The first professional theory that we looked at was a Russian critic called Vladimir Propp and he expressed the fact that every film has a different character with a function for example a hero's function would be that they would seek a goal during the film with deliberate interruptions along the way and the villains function would be to try and block the supposed quest from the hero.
The second professional theory that our group looked at was Todorov and he thought that there were five stages of the narrative and that there should be an equilibrium. Todorov thought that a film should have a change of events for example disorders then problems then there is an attempt to fix this problem that has happened and after the problem has been resolved there is a new equilibrium. Todorov also believed that certain films were all about the narrative and the equilibrium and disequilibrium that was involved.
The third theory that we looked at was a person called Aristotle and he believed that a film should include an exciting incident, a dramatic question, a goal set for a character, an antagonist and a protagonist, high stakes,a well thought out resolution and either sympathy or empathy in the film.
To summarise I believe our groups narrative will follow Todorov's theory as I think it would be the most successful one for the groups narrative as our groups narrative involves a equilibrium and an attempt of a change of actions also I believe the theory of Aristoltle would be a good theory to follow as it has an antagonist and protagonist that is already in our narrative .
This post demonstrates some planning techniques and this is because you have evaluated the individual planning ideas from each group member. But it is difficult to see what the group narrative will be?
ReplyDeleteYou have also made a start in describing the different theories, but you still need to explain what narrative theory, will your thriller follow and why? This can be achieved by considering the narrative of the thriller in further detail.