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a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.“in a series of flashbacks, we follow the pair through their teenage years”
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a piece of narration in a movie or broadcast, not accompanied by an image of the speaker.
Narrative. What does it mean? Narrative is simply a device in fiction, it’s an outlet for storytelling.
Someone or something has to tell the story, and that person, or thing is Narrative. What is this assignment?
3-5 Minute GROUP short film. YOU WILL STAY IN YOUR CFGS FOR THIS PROJECT.
Must have some kind of narrative structure – Voiceover, dialogue, flashback, dream sequence, etc.
CHOOSE ONE OF THE THEMES BELOW FOR YOUR STORY.
Choose one of these themes as the subject of your video.
Surveillance
Retribution
Vengence
Concillatory
Plague
Election
Forgiveness
Lies
Betrayal
Deceipt
Failure
Success
Friendship
Graduation
Patience
Film Noir
Mystery
Romance
Suspenseful
Phantasmagoric
Must have a coherent, beginning, middle and end.
Remember the structure of our first movies,conflict throughout, climax and resolution.
Must have a SCRIPT that you will turn in separately.
Three pages is about one minute of film = 9-15 pages of SCRIPT.
So let’s kick it off:
STEP ONE: EACH PERSON RESPONDS WITH TWO DIFFERENT IDEAS, LIST THE NAME OF THE THEME AND A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE OF THAT THEME, POSTED AS A COMMENT BELOW.
Give me One idea that pops into your head that would make a good project.
After each person gives their idea, people will “sign on” to that group according to how exciting their
idea is.
Make sure the idea is a complete story.
Example: Two male students figure out they are brothers, separated at birth, they both suspect it, but it takes them being put in the same detention space for a Saturday afternoon to figure that out. In the end they move on as one, ready to face the truth and their parents.
Remember, keep it school appropriate. We are here to tell a story, not to make a dumbed down video.
FINAL PROJECTS DUE INTO ME BY 11/11
WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE IN YOUR VIDEO:
Three seconds of black video at the start and end of your video.
Stick to the time constraints, don’t turn in a two minute movie, it’s 3-5.
Use only copyright cleared music and video.
Fade in at the beginning, fade out at the end.
Have a credit roll
With Actors Names.
Writers/Sound/
Have me as Executive Director.
must use copyright cleared music, use freeplaymusic.
Film Noir/Mystery- A man suspects he is being followed by someone. The story plays out by having the guy narrate how he’s been followed and what he suspects is following him. He tells his friends and family and they tell him that he’s just imagining things and they give explanations for certain situations. He believes them until he comes to a confrontation with what has been following him. After the confrontation his life is changed.
Forgiveness – There is a person from the main character’s past. He can’t let go his feelings about her even though he has lost said feelings. He has a photo of her. He tries to write a letter to himself to try and mend. He sees a hallucination of her leaving and at that point (while looking at the letter), he is able to let go and forgive her.
Suspense – The main character is waiting for someone. He wonders if the person is coming at all. He is alone. He doesn’t know what to expect. He begins to fear what it might be. He beings to lose his mind. He then looks for the thing to see it it is out there or not. (there isn’t anything)
Suspenseful- a man or woman is looking for something. they come up on a corner amd suspense music happens they turn the corner and…!
paitence- a man or woman is sitting in a waiting room, waiting for a very long time they sit there for a looooooooooooooooong time and music goes like ding ting ding ting ding ting like time passing or maybe just a clock ticking :/
Betrayal- A girl has a best friend who we don’t know at all in the beginning of the story or what she looks like. All we see are either text messages or notes from this person. At first all is happy and this girl tells her a secret of some sort, and one day everybody gives her weird looks as she walks around the school. Her best friend betrayed her and ruined her ego
Failure- A girl is confident about this test that will enable her to go to this college she has been dreaming of, otherwise she will have to try again next year. We see her studying like crazy everywhere she goes, including when she is with her friends. When that day of testing arrives she is nervous but very confident. But then she fails the test badly, and we see shots of her all sad and broken. How she failed is the dramatic scenes, but in the end we see her friends coming over and saying, “next year, you will get it” and this brings a smile to the girl’s face.
Romance- A student comes to realize his best friend loves him and comes to the conclusion of that he wouldn’t want to be with anybody else.
Phantasmagoric/Mystery- A teenager wakes up after having a radical nightmare. But did he really wake up?