During the last lesson I looked at the important conventions of film making. I researched into the conventions of narrative.
A simple storyline can be broke down into five different steps, as follows:
1. Exposition – opening premise setting the scene
2. Development- built on the situation and moves forward
3. Complication- an event changes the situation
4. Climax- comes to a head, a point where everything comes together
5. Resolution- the ending
I found out from the research I had done that continuity editing is a vital part of editing. It is important when changing angle and cutting to another angle, the positioning of the actor has to be the same and the clothing, props and so on.
For the rules of the genre I have chose, horror, when making a film I need to think about the lighting because low-key, high contrast lighting is a feature of the genre. So are canted camera angles, extreme close-ups and jump cuts.
I looked at the terms of narrative development the old structuralist theories of narrative as formulated by Propp, Barthes,Levi-Straus and Todorov. For example, in a short film you will only have time to follow one or two people in a real depth.
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