what you need to make a film-

camera, cast, crew, editors, script, set, film location, props,

Linear-arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line

Chronological- following the order in which they occurred.

Sequential-forming or following in a logical order or sequence.

Circular structure-

Time based

Narrative arc-. It provides a backbone by providing a clear beginning, middle, and end of the story

Freytag’s Pyramid

exposition-a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory

inciting incident-the event that sets the main character or characters on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative.

rising action,

climax- the most intense , or important point of something

falling action,

resolution-measure used to describe the sharpness and clarity of an image or picture.

denouement-

Beginning / middle / end

Equilibrium

Disruption

New equilibrium

Peripeteia

Anagnoresis

Catharsis

The 3 Unities: Action, Time, Place

flashback / flash forward-

Foreshadowing- hints throughout the story indicating for a event later in the story

Ellipsis-where there are parts of the story missing

Pathos

Empathy

diegetic / non-diegetic

slow motion

Todorov’s narrative theory. most stories can be broken down into beginning middle and end .

flexi-narratives-long format television products deploy multiple three act structures in a similar pattern to that used by master plot/subplot sequences.

condensed equilibriums- contempary audiences, arguably, have a much lower boredom threshold, expecting products to deliver quickly

Vladimir Propp:

Vladimir Propp was a folklorist researcher interested in the relationship between characters and narrative . Propp argued that stories are character driven and that plots develop from the decisions and actions of characters and how they function in a story. He claimed characters could be classified into certain roles that progress a story

Propp identifies two types of hero’s, the seeker-hero and the victim-hero

Vladimir propp’s theory:

Vladimir Propp was a folklorist researcher interested in the relationship between characters and narrative . Propp argued that stories are character driven and that plots develop from the decisions and actions of characters and how they function in a story.

Vladimir Propp claimed characters could be defined by their “spheres of action” and the role they played in the progression of the story. After studying 100 fairy tales in tremendous detail, he identified seven archetypes: the villain, the donor, the helper, the princess, the dispatcher, the hero, and the false hero.

His 8 character types:

• The Hero – 2 types = seeker hero and victim hero
• The Helper – Helps the hero along the way
• The Villain – fights the hero and becomes defeated
• The False Hero – who appears to act heroically and may even be initially mistaken for the real Hero.
• The Donor – who gives the Hero something special, such as a magical weapon or some particular wisdom.
• The Dispatcher – Sends the hero on the mission
• The Princess – Is the hero’s reward
• The Princess’s Father.

I would like to create a poster of a film for the use of learning about internal structures. I would like my poster of the film to look very sinister and look very interesting so that it can attract the audience. I will do this by making it stand out by adding contrast to the poster as it will look more realistic. For my film there will be about 6 to 7 main characters who embark on a journey to stay alive. They are living in a house and are not allowed to escape or their will be consequences. My poster will have the advantage of the use of the setting and whereabouts if the characters are acting as the hero or the villain.

For my poster, I would like to create it with my own imagination and try to experiment with all sorts of techniques. This giving the impression of thinking of a more realistic storyline to not make it to complicated and being able to edit it easily. To make my poster interesting I will add a varies of different techniques such as having a rising action idea so that perhaps the storyline would be interesting with that.

My film is similar to the hunger games as the main point of my film is to survive and stay alive as long as possible, which is by completing tasks where you earn rewards. However, it is different from the hunger games as it won’t be set in a dystopian place but in a large house with a group of people. Another reason for being different than the hunger games is because they are not aloud to leave the house unless they would like to be a run far to survive, without being court. Their will also be a varies of tension if everyone from the house ends up leaving.

My film will be about a construction worker who is working on restoring an old abandoned house, he will then find a hidden basement in the house which once he enters seals him inside a labyrinth of hallways and different environments he will have to try and find a way out whilst avoiding all of the different creatures that lurks within the hallways. The film will be a horror with elements of humour and suspense.

Statement of Intent
I want to create a comedy / horror film and have several jokes about finding a dead body and a gun next to it, it will be dark and funny at the same time. I want it to be mostly funny and quite serious at certain times. I want to target people that watch this film as 16 + as it is a dark comedy. The main character will be about a troubled boy always arguing with his parent until he finally gets fed up and leaves home, to then stumble across a knife and a dead body. For my posters, I will include the troubled boy and his parents in the background, with a knife in his hands. Furthermore in the second poster I will include less characters and just focus on the dead body and the boy.

My film can be seen similar to the stereotypical horror / adventure film as it has a boy going missing and further finding out mysteries about a murderer. My film will be different however because it will lead you on to what the audience predicts that a boy is going to find the murderer that left a gun by the body, but will have a twist on the whole story line and turn out not to be what the audience expected.

1. Cultural industries  – Distributing cultural goods and services on industrial and commercial terms.
2. Production – The making of a video such as a commercial.
3. Distribution – promoting content to online audiences in multiple media formats through various channels.
4. Exhibition / Consumption – Retail branch of the film industry.
5. Media concentration – Examples, newspapers, magazines and tv and radio.
6. Conglomerates – a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises.
7. Globalisation (in terms of media ownership) – the worldwide integration of media through the cross cultural exchange of ideas.
8. Cultural imperialism – How an ideology or a way of life is exported from one country to another through movement of cultural goods.
9. Vertical Integration – When a media company owns different businesses in the same chain of production and distribution.
10. Horizontal Integration – a media company’s ownership of several businesses of the same value.
11. Mergers – one or more undertakings involved carries on a media business.
12. Monopolies – concentrated control of major mass communications within a society.
13. Gatekeepers – Gatekeeping is the process through which information is filtered for dissemination, whether for publication, broadcasting, the Internet, or some other mode of communication.
14. Regulation – Mass media regulations are rules enforced by the jurisdiction of law
15. Deregulation –  the telecommunications industry pertains to relaxing ownership rules regarding such items as the number of stations a single television or radio owner can possess in a market and whether or not a single corporation can own a newspaper, or television and radio station in the same market
16. Free market – The free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control.
17. Commodification  – Commodification is the transformation of the shape of the relationship
18. Convergence  – media convergence, phenomenon involving the interconnection of information and communications technologies, computer networks, and media content.
19. Diversity   – Diversity in the media is, more than a matter of professional ethics, a matter of questioning that given power.
20. Innovation  – Media innovation can include change in several aspects of the media landscape – from the development of new media platforms, to new business models, to new ways of producing media texts.

Propp arrived at the conclusion that folk tales drew from a highly stable list of characters whose roles and narrative functions he defined as follows:

The hero- two types, seeker hero and victim hero

The villain- fights the hero and must be defeated

The princess and the princess’s father- is the hero’s reward

The donor- provides the hero to help defeat the villain

The helper- usually accompanies the hero and helps them along the way

The dispatcher- sends the hero on their quest

The false hero- plays a large villainous role

Stories use STOCK CHARACTERS to structure stories

Suggests that all stories draw on familiar characters performing similar functions to provide familiar narrative structures.

The way in which CHARACTERS FUNCTION TO PROVIDE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE:

1. Hero
2. Helper
3. Princess
4. Villain
5. Victim
6. Dispatcher
7. Father
8. False Hero

‘These are not separate characters, since one character can occupy a number of roles or ‘spheres of action’ as Propp calls them and one role may be played by a number of different characters’

Stock character’s roles can be organised into

1. PREPARATION
2. COMPLICATION
3. TRANSFERENCE
4. STRUGGLE
5. RETURN
6. RECOGNITION

stories use STOCK CHARACTERS to structure stories

Suggest that all stories draw on familiar characters performing similar functions to provide familiar narrative structures.

the way in which CHARACTERS FUNCTION TO PROVIDE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE:

1. Hero
2. Helper
3. Princess
4. Villain
5. Victim
6. Dispatcher
7. Father
8. False Hero

What is Vladimir Propp’s theory?

Vladimir Propp was a folklorist researcher interested in the relationship between characters and narrative . Propp argued that stories are character driven and that plots develop from the decisions and actions of characters and how they function in a story.

he said they are not all used though most are organised around the interplay of the hero villain and princess archetypes