(Clovis) Unit 10- Film production (fiction)

Unit 10- Film production (fiction):

Narrative filmmaking- purposes, formats, narrative structures and visual storytelling.

• Formats and purposes:
• short films for festivals, competitions, showcasting talent
• feature length productions, entertainment, drama
• TV drama. issue-based narrative filmmaking
• serial dramas, ongoing narrative development, recurring themes
• Narrative structures: 
• cause and effect, motivation of protagonists, order of storytelling
• narrative models and theory, e.g. distruption/struggle/resolution
• characteristics, stereotypes, stock characters
• open/closed, single strand/multi-strand structures, realist/anti-realist narrative