Film Coursework

Character In class we were looking at Character development and we did our own writing describing a character we chose. This is my writing; INT. BEDROOM, NIGHT His name was Shiro, everyone called him the money man. Loved his daughter Kayla as much as he loved his girlfriend. 

Screenplay or short film? I think I will be making a screenplay because when I made a screenplay as a task I really enjoyed writing it and coming up with ideas. I think when you're making a screenplay you have unlimited choices that you can make as it's really writing down your own story. Also, the film idea I am thinking of involves collecting specific actors so, this will be hard for me if I made a short film.

Narrative Structures 3 Act structure The 3 act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story/film in three parts; Setup, confrontation, resolution. Propp's Character Theory Vladimir Propp analysed Russian fairy tales and came up with a theory that most stories/films have different types of characters in them; The villain, Hero, Princess, Mentor, False Hero and etc. Todorov's narrative theory Todorov's narrative theory is quite similar to the 3 act structure but with more steps. He suggests that all narratives follow this structure; 1. Equilibrium (everything is as it should be) 2. Disruption (by an event) 3. Recognition of disruption 4. Attempt to repair disruption 5. Return to equilibrium Strauss' binary opposites Levi-Strauss proposed a theory of 'binary opposites' which suggests that the majority of narratives in media forms such as books and films contain opposing main characters. These binary oppo...