This will be the full narrative for our film and will record the progression on this post.
Narrative:
3/11/2014Narrative:
Our protagonist was captured as a child and went missing
for a month. The child then appears at the parent’s doorstop not remembering
the events that happened through then. During lessons he tends to see choices
picking A or B which can be irrelevant
towards what he is doing, however he gets an extreme headache when he tries to
refuse and will drop to the ground gasping to breath causing him near death, therefore he
will choose out of fear to prevent death. A
day after his 18th birthday on his way to work meets a mysterious
person warning him to make the right choices from now. The choices get extreme
and place our protagonist through harsh unexpected conditions leading he’s
mentality to a very unstable path. With the trailer ending with he’s choice of
A- Kill her or B- Kill her. An inevitable choice that he cannot get out of? What will happen?
19/11/2014
We went over certain aspects of narrative and to develop are narrative better we came up with better constructive ideas and plan to lay out are narrative better with a start, middle, and end.
Title: Choices (Working Title)
Actors: (not entirely sure but someone who can change their emotions easily and can be serious yet positive to watch)
Settings: East London environment such as Westfield, East Ham market, various parks, and the docks (only place where there's water around to symbolise the mind)
Structure
The structure of the film will be a 5 act structure because the narrative fits within it. We want an open narrative that'll leave questions for the audience and will be single stranded since were focusing on a single individual.
Levi Strauss - Binary opposition
In our film we discussed what binary opposition are included and we got:
Mind vs Body
Good vs Evil
Decisive vs Indecisive
Past vs Future
Ideas:
start happy
We wanted the starting point to be the protagonist starting out happy during the 1st parts where things would gradually go wrong and thus this happy setting will become dark and could potentially make the audience relate more towards the protagonist if they had good things and lost them, maybe thats how they would also feel.
Messenger
We need something/someone to lead the protagonist on their journey. We thought if a person who meets the protagonist in a normal situation somehow knows part of their past life and reveals something big (while holding the key information behind) we can make the protagonist make a start on their journey.
Roland Barthes
Hermeneutic - We don't reveal the protagonists past
Proairetic - the forced choices the protagonist must make
Semantic - The water from the river from royal docks (if filmed there)
Symbolic - (Still in discussion)
Cultural - (still in discussion)
Problems during Narrative
Within our small summary of the narrative we was not to sure on two parts about it and once stuck on these we found it hard to progress the story. We couldn't answer why the protagonist was special for him to be kidnapped in the first place and what was the main point of the film? We had the situation planned out but what is our protagonist actually pursuing in the end? And how did the protagonist obtain these forced choices within he's head?
Answers to problems
After a short discussion we passed these stumbling blocks and created answers to what was stopping us before.
Why is the protagonist special?
The main reason towards why the protagonist was special to be captured in their youth was because the parents created a powerful virus that corrupts the body leading them to do what you command, however the government had to shut down the parents who threat to use the incomplete virus and took their child away.
Forced choices?
The top part also relates to how the protagonist gets these choices because they was a test subject for the parents experiment, however was an incomplete version thus giving choices rather than following a command.
What is the main goal?
The main goal towards the film is showing what forced upon things happen in life and that a single choice can change your life completely. Within narrative terms we want our protagonist to be chasing information to reveal the past of what happened. During this unravelling to the past we also thought we could include agents of some kind to give chase and place the protagonist in more extreme conditions.
UPDATE ON NARRATIVE
Start
The film starts with a child being forced into a chair and struggling to get out. Then two adults with faced blocked out seems prepared to inject a syringe into the child's arm. Just before the syringe touches the skin our protagonist wakes from the nightmare and after a call to their cell phone telling them to go school or be late we see our protagonist prepare for school. As the protagonist goes to school we see their friend, partner, and good grades showing our protagonist having a good life. Before heading home the protagonist is told to meet up with a few friends at the docks to celebrate he's birthday on a small scale with close friends. Once at the docks a person who they have never met before (messenger) arrives to tell the protagonist to talk privately. The messenger tell the protagonist that they will need to start by making the right choices and says certain things to question he's present and past. The messenger then passes the protagonist out with a jab and the protagonist awakes within their room like the day before was a dream.
Middle
The protagonist goes through a similar routine like the start but with major changes. When meeting friends they see to options of text saying to choose one of them. At first the protagonist thinks their mind is playing games and just goes with the flow until they realised that whatever choice was chosen, their body is forced to act it out. After realising this the protagonist then decides next time a choice pops up they will refuse it, however they then start to suffocate and in fear has no choice to choose an option. Once home the messenger is there to greet the protagonist and explains more about the forced choices made, after the talk the messenger warns the protagonist that "they" are now coming for them. During the next morning a choice immediately pops up giving them not much of a choice to choose the option to not go school and go to a certain location. After reaching the destination they hear a voice saying "behind you" "their coming for you" and "run". The protagonist is now being hunted by two suspicious individuals and during the time running through different parts of London must make a choice at certain times. Such as a scene in a store having the option to either rob the shop or trash it.
End
After two days or running and the choices getting more extreme the protagonist reaches back to the docks and sees the messenger in the distances as though waiting for them. The messenger then reveals a certain part of the past about the government taking him as a child and erasing he's memories to place them in a house where they can monitor them. The protagonist asked why them of all people and the messenger replies however cut off mid-sentence with a phone call. The messenger passes the phone towards the protagonist for the other caller to say a location and that the protagonists loved one is hostage. After the protagonist goes to the location they see their loved one in one chair and the messenger in the other with spotlights above them each. the mysterious person reveals all of the protagonist past and revealing that the parents was the one who created a virus that went wrong and used the protagonist as a test subject which is why they have forced choices. The protagonist understands why the loved one was a hostage but not the messenger who is then reviled to be the parent of the protagonist (mother). The mysterious individual then gives the option, A) kill her, b) kill her...
19/11/2014
We went over certain aspects of narrative and to develop are narrative better we came up with better constructive ideas and plan to lay out are narrative better with a start, middle, and end.
Title: Choices (Working Title)
Actors: (not entirely sure but someone who can change their emotions easily and can be serious yet positive to watch)
Settings: East London environment such as Westfield, East Ham market, various parks, and the docks (only place where there's water around to symbolise the mind)
Structure
The structure of the film will be a 5 act structure because the narrative fits within it. We want an open narrative that'll leave questions for the audience and will be single stranded since were focusing on a single individual.
Levi Strauss - Binary opposition
In our film we discussed what binary opposition are included and we got:
Mind vs Body
Good vs Evil
Decisive vs Indecisive
Past vs Future
Ideas:
start happy
We wanted the starting point to be the protagonist starting out happy during the 1st parts where things would gradually go wrong and thus this happy setting will become dark and could potentially make the audience relate more towards the protagonist if they had good things and lost them, maybe thats how they would also feel.
Messenger
We need something/someone to lead the protagonist on their journey. We thought if a person who meets the protagonist in a normal situation somehow knows part of their past life and reveals something big (while holding the key information behind) we can make the protagonist make a start on their journey.
Roland Barthes
Hermeneutic - We don't reveal the protagonists past
Proairetic - the forced choices the protagonist must make
Semantic - The water from the river from royal docks (if filmed there)
Symbolic - (Still in discussion)
Cultural - (still in discussion)
Problems during Narrative
Within our small summary of the narrative we was not to sure on two parts about it and once stuck on these we found it hard to progress the story. We couldn't answer why the protagonist was special for him to be kidnapped in the first place and what was the main point of the film? We had the situation planned out but what is our protagonist actually pursuing in the end? And how did the protagonist obtain these forced choices within he's head?
Answers to problems
After a short discussion we passed these stumbling blocks and created answers to what was stopping us before.
Why is the protagonist special?
The main reason towards why the protagonist was special to be captured in their youth was because the parents created a powerful virus that corrupts the body leading them to do what you command, however the government had to shut down the parents who threat to use the incomplete virus and took their child away.
Forced choices?
The top part also relates to how the protagonist gets these choices because they was a test subject for the parents experiment, however was an incomplete version thus giving choices rather than following a command.
What is the main goal?
The main goal towards the film is showing what forced upon things happen in life and that a single choice can change your life completely. Within narrative terms we want our protagonist to be chasing information to reveal the past of what happened. During this unravelling to the past we also thought we could include agents of some kind to give chase and place the protagonist in more extreme conditions.
UPDATE ON NARRATIVE
Start
The film starts with a child being forced into a chair and struggling to get out. Then two adults with faced blocked out seems prepared to inject a syringe into the child's arm. Just before the syringe touches the skin our protagonist wakes from the nightmare and after a call to their cell phone telling them to go school or be late we see our protagonist prepare for school. As the protagonist goes to school we see their friend, partner, and good grades showing our protagonist having a good life. Before heading home the protagonist is told to meet up with a few friends at the docks to celebrate he's birthday on a small scale with close friends. Once at the docks a person who they have never met before (messenger) arrives to tell the protagonist to talk privately. The messenger tell the protagonist that they will need to start by making the right choices and says certain things to question he's present and past. The messenger then passes the protagonist out with a jab and the protagonist awakes within their room like the day before was a dream.
Middle
The protagonist goes through a similar routine like the start but with major changes. When meeting friends they see to options of text saying to choose one of them. At first the protagonist thinks their mind is playing games and just goes with the flow until they realised that whatever choice was chosen, their body is forced to act it out. After realising this the protagonist then decides next time a choice pops up they will refuse it, however they then start to suffocate and in fear has no choice to choose an option. Once home the messenger is there to greet the protagonist and explains more about the forced choices made, after the talk the messenger warns the protagonist that "they" are now coming for them. During the next morning a choice immediately pops up giving them not much of a choice to choose the option to not go school and go to a certain location. After reaching the destination they hear a voice saying "behind you" "their coming for you" and "run". The protagonist is now being hunted by two suspicious individuals and during the time running through different parts of London must make a choice at certain times. Such as a scene in a store having the option to either rob the shop or trash it.
End
After two days or running and the choices getting more extreme the protagonist reaches back to the docks and sees the messenger in the distances as though waiting for them. The messenger then reveals a certain part of the past about the government taking him as a child and erasing he's memories to place them in a house where they can monitor them. The protagonist asked why them of all people and the messenger replies however cut off mid-sentence with a phone call. The messenger passes the phone towards the protagonist for the other caller to say a location and that the protagonists loved one is hostage. After the protagonist goes to the location they see their loved one in one chair and the messenger in the other with spotlights above them each. the mysterious person reveals all of the protagonist past and revealing that the parents was the one who created a virus that went wrong and used the protagonist as a test subject which is why they have forced choices. The protagonist understands why the loved one was a hostage but not the messenger who is then reviled to be the parent of the protagonist (mother). The mysterious individual then gives the option, A) kill her, b) kill her...
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