Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Narrative structure chart

Exposition: Establish the character and setting. Serves questions to audience and the journey we discover as to why Tara is leaving and how the setting self reflects her mood and situation. Tara speaks in a soliloquy to reveal her inner emotions. Involving audience by a rhetorical question and the audiences’ relation to their own lives.


Development: (non linear narrative). Series of flashbacks and flash-forwards to tell her story.

Complication: For the audience to understand why she is leaving her home.
Climax: dropping keyring into the sand and it being swept away by the waves. Sand slipping through her fingers as a metaphor for how you can’t stop life passing and you lack of control over it.


Resolution: A reflective message and a wave of optimism which has the element of catharsis and end with a quote by Edward Bond saying...
"I am a pessimist by experience, but an optimist by nature, and I have no doubt that i shall go on being true to my nature. Experience is depressing, and it would be a mistake to be willing to learn from it."

1 comment:

  1. why do you end your film in this way? What has this quote got to do with the rest of the film? Just curious.

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