Coursework

(this was done before shooting and everything but was handwritten )
Genre of my film - Romcom/Chickflick
Narrative in terms of todorov theory -
equalibrium - average teenage girls life , goes to school , has a decent group of friends
disturbance- because she is in love with a boy who has a girlfriend she tries to steal him away from his girlfriend , the girlfriend has a conflict with her  and the girl ends up really unhappy  and not allowed to speak to boy.
new equalibruim - boy breaks up with his girlfriend  and is really in love with the girl , they get together happy ending


setting and location - hastings old town and seafront because they look visually nice a give a good impression of a small british town where you wouldnt expect that much to go on.


characters
girl - Holly
boy- Robert
girlfriend- Amelia


props and costumes needed
- coats and jeans
- phone


camera booked for 26th of november

Todorov

Todorovs theory was set a basic structure for all narratives.  He said that all films start of with an equilibrium; a calm period where everything is balanced and steady. then has a disequilibrium; a disturbance  which is a period of unsettlement. Then after that  a narrative has to have a new equilibrium; a sense of restoration / new beginning and a state of peace for the protagonist. This is the simplest form of narrative and can be referred to as 'classic' or 'Hollywood'.

Levi strauss binary opposition

Strauss worked closely with Barthes in the 20th century  and came up with the binary opposition this is a theory that says all stories have conflict between two sides or or has ideological fighting. 

http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/popups/opposition.htm

Barthes 5 codes

The Hermeneutic code - this is something that is not fully explained and so becomes a mystery to the reader

The proairetic code -builds tension , this refers to an action  that gets the audience to try and guess what is going to happen next

 it works in a pair with the hermeneutic to develop a stories tension 

barthe describes it as... "...dependent on ... two sequential codes: the revelation of truth and the coordination of the actions represented: there is the same constraint in the gradual order of melody and in the equally gradual order of the narrative sequence."

The semantic code- this code refers to connotaton in a story that gives anotherl meaning over the basic  meaning of the word.

The symbolic code- similar to semantic code but at a wider level looking a the mise en scene

The cultural code-This code refers to anything that is founded on some kind of canonical works that cannot be challenged and is assumed to be a foundation for truth.

Vladimir Propp research

Vladimar Propp's theory is that every story has its 8 characters

   

CHARACTERS

1.The hero (seeks something)

2.The villain (opposes the hero)

3.The donor (helps the hero by providing a magic object)

4.The dispatcher (sends the hero on his way)

5.The false hero (falsely assuming the role of hero)

6.The helper (gives support to the hero)

7.The princess (the reward for the hero but also needs to be protected from the villain

8.her father

This does  fit  to many films  such as harry potter where harry is the hero , voldemort is

the villain , dumbledor is the donor , death eaters are the dispatchers,

ron/hermione are the false heros but are also the helpers and ginny is thep rincess

it can also fit with films like lord of the rings , sherlock holmes etc

however this theory doesnt fit all the time , in films such as happy go lucky where there is no 

really story line this theory doesnt fit.

thinking about what our opening credits will include

production companies-
mainstream- universal
- cloumbia pictures
- paramount
-fox
-lionsgate

alternative- greyscale
-storyland
-seal films
-olsperg spi

obviously our fiolm wouldnt be looked at by mainstream producers and disributers so would be produced either an independant company of a small company weho specialise in these sort of films.

 we're going to call our production company 'fly productions' and have designed the logo but not done it on the computer.
we're also going to add the actors name but instead of having 'starring' or 'with' it will be 'intorducing' then the actors name.

The shooting

We managed to get all of our shots done on the one day . Although the shooting schedule make it look as though   there wouldnt be enough for two minutes we did add extra shots as we went along of things that was thought were nice visually at the time. For the majority  it went very successfully with only one minor problem. when we where filming the sun rise  the memory card ran out so we had to go back and get another one , this was because we didnt think of memory cars when we where planning, it did not really effect our day and shooting much but was a big  inconvenience. We where also very lucky with the weather as it remained pretty consistent with means that the continuity shouldnt be too bad.

i will up load the shoots soon.