Production Log Week 9

This week we have started developing the narrative for our film and creating the basic ideas for our film to be based upon, we have learn types of narrative structures that past films have and the techniques they use to accomplish them. A lot of films in the industry especially Hollywood films use and omniscient narrative structure which is when a character within a film doesn’t know what’s going to happen such as ( a man walking by the corner and they don’t know he’s there)but the audience knows. This is the narrative style were going to be using in our BSR film, for instance in our opening sequence of our film there will be a moment where our protagonist is hiding from the slave owners but he doesn’t know where they are but the audience will know and this creates a sense of tension and dramatic conflict between the characters and it helps makes the audience feel for the protagonist as he’s being hunted by slave owners and the audience doesn’t know the result but they can see it coming closer.

 

Within my treatment we used this for our opening sequence and some things were changed it best suit it and the content within the whole treatment was decided between me and my partner and we discussed which options were best to help the most interesting and deep story of a BSR film based upon modern slavery. Some choices such as the ethnicity were changed to flip the portrayed stereotype of black people being the slaves and instead we will have an Asian actor play as the abused protagonist to show how slavery isn’t just one specific group of people but many aswell. We also changed the title of the film to denote a less obvious meaning to our film and instead we decided to give a more in-depth detailed meaning.