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The document discusses how the author's short film uses conventions of real media to tell its story. It follows Todorov's theory of cyclical storytelling. The main characters start alone and end alone in equilibrium. The film introduces a disturbance in the form of "the girl" character. It establishes the male character as a loner traveling alone through a field. His meeting and inability to communicate with the French girl propels him back to his starting solitary state, creating a comedic cyclical narrative structure.
Copy of evaluation question 1
- 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 2. Conventions of short films One of the first aspects I looked when developing the story for my short film was narrative. Todovorovs theory involves a cyclical style of story telling and this is the style I choose to use as the vehicle to create the story for my media product. The two main characters start off not knowing one another and end in the exact same place at an equilibrium
- 3. As I looked deeper into this theory in regards to a story I could tell through the form of short film I thought what is the disturbance of normality with in my story. In many ways “the girl” was used as the disturbance. From the minute the film starts the audience are presented with the male character as being a loner. Almost being represented as a traveller was the sort of effect I wanted to convey, and did so by making his first appearance be walking through a field on his own. I did this in order to make the audience have intrigue and thus make the central character almost mystical in his appeal. Also I did this to suggest a man looking for something, perhaps love. However at the risk of losing a element of comedy we added the fence gag in order show the whimsical simple mindedness of the main character. His appearance in the film as a solitary character ends straight away when he decides to sit down next to the young girl in the pub. Then the resolution comes at the point when he finally speaks to her only to realise she cant understand a word he says because she's French. This propels the main character back to the starting point at an equilibrium. This is shown from the comical ending, the film started with a comical element and end on one, and also through the single close up screen shot, he is back on his own almost frozen in time. Both if which helps to establish that central character is in the same position as he was at the beginning. The only point where the film strays