Narrative and genre

Evaluation narrative and genre

For this task in small groups we had to develop and come up with a straight to the point scenario that lasted between 90-120. The scenario had to have a set up, development and resolution. For the task focused on genre and narrative, we had to display these aspects in a short drama that clearly showed the type of genre the drama is and a clear narrative. We had to focus clearly on the mis-en-scene that included costumes, lighting, performance and location to convey a clear narrative. Camerawork and sound. I worked with Sabrina Yaaqub and Cynthia Ankunda the storyline that we came up with to explore the genre and narrative is about a group of friends at college who are surrounded by a series of killings that have been happening at their college.  Then suddenly people in the group start to get killed they. It is revealed that two of the friends from the group are in fact the killers. We also picked a narrative that was also simple and straight to the point.  We thought that it would be better to have a simple narrative rather that a complicated one simple because sometimes a simple narrative is more effective and efficient.  The genre of the film sequence is drama and thriller it is clear that this is the genre due to certain aspects in the film sequence in particular the mis-en-scene. To convey the genre we thought carefully about the environment for example for one of the friends that are getting killed we decided for this too take part in the smoking hunt, simply because it was secluded therefore portrayed a thriller like atmosphere.

We also used props such as the phone towards the film sequence, for example at the end we see one of the killers talking into the phone. We used this prop to convey to the audience that there is more that one killer which again brings up the thriller and drama genre. Costumes for the killer were really necessarily seeing that we different feature the killers, in the shot simply because we wanted their to be a sense of mystery and to get the audience guessing who the killer was.  However for the victims their costumes portray the type of characters they were which added to the narrative of the film sequence.  In addition the shots that were used in the film were extremely good, we used shots such as long shot to show the environment, close up to show the persons facial expression and we also used a shot were we faced the camera up towards the sky or celling to not reveal the murders or killer.

Improvements

Overall I think this task was a success because we used a variety of shots that conveyed the genre greatly. Because we took into deep consideration of the mis-en-scene which helped to make the film successful.  Though I think it was a success their were a few things that needed to be improved upon, such as the editing in the editing process I found that the clips that were shot had high volumes of static so we couldn’t hear the voices in the scene properly. However apart from this I believe that we considered the mis-en-scene well, we made sure our performance conveyed the genre well, that our location choice help convey the right mood and meaning of the sequence, that the lighting was good. We used lower lighting in darker scene and lighter lighting in casual scenes.