Narrative themes

Narrative themes are explored through media texts like family values, social class amd sexuality, these normally explored by the the crime dramas. Some of the narrative themes that are used in my film are:

• Rleationships
• Friendship
• Peer pressure
• Love
• Boy meets girl

Representation

Representation is the meaning in which the ways things are depicted. It realtes to the representation of reality in media. It allows you to know how the audience receive and consume the media. Our knowledge of people come through the media, so how they are represented through the media is important.

Production name

This is the style that I chose to have my production name in. I chose for it to look like this as it stands out so will people will be able to notice it easily. Also there are any other production names that look like mine, so it makes more original. I played with the font a lot intill i decdied with one I have but I new from the beginning that I wanted to use purple for the colour.

Binary Oppositions in my film

Jay follows the oppositional ideology, a geek not very popular and doesnt follow latest fashion and trends. His best friend is a girl and no one never seems him with anyone else so other people think he is gay as he has no male freinds. Being gay also falls under the oppositional ideology.

Love sick

This is a rom-com, it has gave me many ideas for what to do for my film. I think that this is a very good short film. I like how they have the man talking as a voice over and not actually as aprt of the film. they have created it so we can here is thoughts and I think that this works very well in the film and I would quite like doing this in my film.

The Plan

I like how this film is in black and white, it makes the film more intense. This film is about a man wanting to move on in life but it doesnt go as well as he thought intill the very end. i think that the cliffhanger is very good atthe end as it leaves you thinking of what is going to happen next with him.

Dominant Ideology

Dominant ideology is another one of the binary oppositions. The dominant ideology is people/objects that are shown in the dominant world, they are shown in the big hollywood blockbusters. Often people that fall under oppositional ideology want to look like and be the people that are in the dominant ideology as they see them as being perfect. The picture below shows a person that fits under the dominant ideology.

Oppositional Ideology

Oppositinal ideology is showing a part of the binary oppositions. Oppositional ideology are people/objects that are not shown in the dominant world. You dont see the oppositional ideology very often in films, television and magazine. It is ver rare if you do, a television programme that does show oppositional ideology glee. This programme had boy in a wheel chair, many people from different ethnic background and a girl that has down syndrome.

Representation

Stuart Hall is a major theorist for representation and this is a quote from him about representation.
" The power to represent the world in certain ways. And because there are so many different and conflicting ways in which meaning about the worl can be constructed, it matters profoundly what and who gets left out, and how things, people, events and relationships are represented."

Life of Lily

Rom-coms are a popular genre in films this means that they are usually big hollywood block busters. This means that for my film I will follow the connotations for big hollywood block busters.

Binary Oppositions

Binary oppositions are a pair of opposites this was thought by the the structalist Levi Strauss. Some of the opposites are very simple e.g. raw vs cooked but then they can be used in a more powerfull manner and more meaning is behing the oppositions e.g. Black vs White, black is a sign of darkness and danegr and white is showing purity and goodness.
Examples of binary opposititions:
Dominant ideology - Oppositional ideology
Male - Female
Abled - Disabled
Young - Old

Narrative theory used in my film

I have followed todorovs theory through my film.

• Equilbrium, Lily starts college and is looking to meet new friends and boyfriend.


• Disruption, She meets a young boy called Leon and starts to like him but finds out that he is dating her step sister who she doesnt live with.


• Resolution, Jay her bestfriend comforts and helps her get throught it. Jay kisses Lily.


• New equilibrium, Jay and Lily are no boyfriend and girlfriend.

Narrative Theory

The narrative is the way in which a story is told. There are two main theorists for narrative and these are Propp and Todorov who are both russian formalists. Propp has six steps for the structure of narrative and these are:

1. Preperation, a community/family is in an orderdered state of being.
   


2. Complication, the villian harms a member of the heros family. The hero plans action agaisnt the villain.



3. Transference, the hero is giving a magical gift, the hero arrives at the place he can fulfil his quest.



4. Struggle, there is a struggle between the hero and the villian.



5. Return, the hero escapes, there is a task set for the hero, the hero accomplishes the task.
   


6. Recognition, the hero is rewarded.
   

There are four steps for todorov's narratives structure and these are:

1. Equilibrium, the starting balance in the story, where normality is held.



2. Disruption, an event that breaks the normaility and causes irregular changes in the enviorment.



3. Resolution, eventually succeed in overcoming the disruption.



4. New equilibrium, new order is restored. Anything affected by disruption is mostly to have changed.
   
   

Propps theory also follows characters types in films, he beleives that every character in a film will follow one of the character types. The character types are:

• Hero, reacts to the donor, marries the princess.



• Villian, struggles against hero.



• Helper, helps the hero in the quest.



• Donor, prepares the hero. or gives the hero a magical object.



• Dispatcher, character that makes the lack known and sends the hero off.



• Her father, gives the task to the hero and detects the false hero.



• Prize, this is who the hero is looking for on his quest and will marry.
  


• False hero, takes the credit for the heros work or trys to my the princess.

Production Name

The production name for my film is DDR. I have chosen this for my production name as the letters are the intials of everyone who is making the film.

Actors in the film

There are three main actors in the film that I am making. The actors that I chosen to be in my film are Adam Pritchard as Leon,David Wilson as Jay and April Leggit as Lily.

Ideas for my poster

These are quick sketches I have made of two diffrent ideas for the film poster I am creating.

Final Script

*Setting up the camera and the room fast speed*

Mind Lily: Hi I’m Lily and I am just a normal 17 year old.

*Looks at teddy and shoves it off the bed and looks shifty*

Mind Lily: Alright so I am not completely normal… Anyway this is my video diary of everything that happened last year, my crazy friends, my crazy life and my gorgeous boyfriend…

*Cartoon love heart appears above her head.*

Mind Lily: Don’t get me wrong , there was some dark moments but it’s all good as I fall in love with a vampire *giggles* I wish. Anyway let’s start from the first day of college.

*Shows Lily walking up to college.*

Mind Lily: I was just walking to college trying, excited for the first day and that’s when I saw him for the first time… no not my current boyfriend I mean Leon.

*Freeze Frame Animation Lily comes up*

And of course I pulled the classic stunt done a million times over; I fell at his feet. Literally like on my face.

*Animation face palms and it shows the action of Lily falling over. –splat*

Well obviously he did a full on laugh. And I couldn’t help but laugh too. How else could I make an already embarrassing situation worse? I thought that was the end of it and I hoped I would never see him ever again. Yeah right as if the world would let that happen…

*Leon and Lily bump into each other *

Leon: Oh sorry, Hey aren’t you that chick that landed on me this morning?

Past Lily: Yeah but technically I didn’t fall on you; I fell in front of you

*Animation*

Present Lily: *Growls* that was the closest I ever got to him. Anyway…

Leon: It’s a shame no one was filming it. Coulda been a great YouTube hit. *laughs*

Past Lily: True but I have done worse than that…

*Shows clips of her falling over by slipping on mud, backwards off some railings and sideways off a wall. With lots of splat noises.*

Leon: *chuckles* you got msn?

Past Lily: *nervously* Yeah? *eyes Narrow*

Leon: Give me your number I will text it you.

*See those two putting numbers in phone.*

Leon: Talk to you tonight?

Past Lily: *Acting chilled out* Yeah sure.

*Leon leaves, leaving Lily grinning from ear to ear (Animated). She goes to meet Jay*

Jay: What are you so happy about?

Mind Lily: Bless Jay, he is a proper Chav on the outside side but you’d never know what he is really like until you get to know him.

Past Lily: Oh you know just met this guy.

Jay: *Pretends to be happy* Sweet, who? Anyone I know? I ain’t seen anyone amazing yet. All a bit average really. *frowns*

Past Lily: Leon *smiles and giggles*

Jay: Him? Meh he’s nothing special. Defiantly average. But whatever makes you happy. Hey you heard they are giving us sex ed again? I still think junior school was good enough to be honest.

Past Lily: Where you were from maybe ours was well confusing. *Animation* It was all about ships docking in to ports and just made us even more confused that we already were. One of the girls wouldn’t get on a boat after for fear of getting pregnant.

*Both Giggle*

Mind Lily: Just as he promised Leon was online that night. I mean obviously I believed that he was very defiantly, kinda, sorta, maybe into me. Considering the first thing he asked was…

Leon: *Voice over, showing Leon typing.* So Lily, you have a boyfriend?

Past Lily: *Voice over, Showing Lily typing.* No do you? A girlfriend I mean.

Leon: Nah.

Mind Lily: Things escalated from there I was telling him everything he wanted to know about me and I mean everything. We didn’t speak much not in person just online, but I didn’t mind. We talked about college, our families, our wants and our fears. I was convinced he was going to ask me out any day now. He even said I love you at one point. Anyone would have been expecting something to happen to bring us together.

Jay: Hey have you heard?!

Past Lily: No? What’s up?

Jay: LEON HAS A GIRLFRIEND!

Past Lily: WHAT!

Mind Lily: I went numb. Time seemed to stop. My chest ached. I could barely breathe.

*Jay hugs Lily*

Jay: He isn’t worth it.

Past Lily: It appears so.

Jay: You need to talk to him and see what happened.

Past Lily: Yeah.

Mind Lily: Jay went after a more hugs and I went up my computer and waited for him to come online he came on very late for him around twelveish. The anger and fury was pounding though my blood.

Past Lily: When exactly were you planning to tell me you have a girlfriend?

Leon: Wasn’t planning too…

Past Lily: How long have you been going out with her?

Leon: 6 months

Past Lily: 6 months!! And you have not told me. Thanks. Who is this girl then?

Leon: Jen
Mind lily: it can’t be her. It’s got to be another Jen.

Leon: your sister!

Animation*heart braking*

Past lily: she’s my sister! How could you not tell me!

*turns the computer off in anger *

Jay: lily, are you okay?

*Leon tries to call Lily*

Lily: Just leave me alone please

*Rejects phone call in anger*

*run down stairs and phones sister*

Freeze frame

*animation* we was arguing for hours. I’m talking to Leon again.

*Lily gets off the phone and cries her eyes out
Jay goes and gives lily a hug to comfort her
Goes to give her a kiss*

*Freeze frame of Lilly looking at jay*

Mind lily: well that was interesting.

*Lily and jay kiss again*

Present lily: (in her room) well that was the excitement from that year.

*Jay walks in kisses lily on the head.*

Jay: what are you doing?

Lily: Just making a video diary.

Jay: well let’s finish it there

*leans over lily and turns video camera off*

Pitch of Life of Lily

Title of Film

I have chosen for the title of the film I am making to be Life of Lily. The reason that I chose this for the title of my film is because the main character in the film is called Lily and throughout the film we are going to be following her and look at both the good bad things that appear in her life. I think that the title works well with the film as through the film the audience only see Lily's perspective as it follows a one person narrative.

Progression of script

Film Posters

I have looked at four film posters that I like and have annotated them. I have picked out what works best on the posters. Below are pictures pf the anntotations that I made on the posters.