Production Log - Week 9

This week we were learning about narrative in a film. We went over the narrative structure, however for our film we used a different theory, we used McKee's classic narrative structure, which instead of only containing 3/4 sections had 5/6 depending on whether the CODA was included as part of the film to set up a sequel. There is an extra section at the start to differentiate the protagonists and the antagonists unlike in Todorov's Narrative structure.

We used this to plan out our film for the treatment, we used to plan out the events of our film so that people would know what will happen in the events of the film. For example in the Conflict complication we used the idea of radicalisation being spread to the younger brother as the catalyst for the later events of the film, as it is the cause of the main events of the film (Elaboration). Climax and the resolution is when the younger brother is arrested for events, however all the detail is on the treatment. However there was one compromise that had to be made about our film to fit it into the structure, that was the antagonist, we had to decide that an idea would be the Agent of Change, in this case it was radicalisation as no other person would have fit into the story without making it unrealistic and stupid.