Post Seven. Creating your own script.

Creating a Short Film

Developing Narrative

It is advised to start at the end and work your way back to the beginning, incorporating two turning points.
Start with the end of the story to show the message for the audience, getting them to think about and question.
- When creating the beginning establish the world and character.
- The first turning point should the problem, the action taken and the cause of effect.
- The second turning point should divert the story back towards the end.

Identify Sources that can serve as the basis for a dramatic or documentary project, such as…
People you know which could create a character.
Past personal events- real life experiences. (Memorises)
Society
Places
New stories/ magazine articles
Social issues
Historical events
Adaptation of short stories
Music
Dreams, fantasies
Idea
Image- to portray this we were shown a picture of a yellow fish and had to create a short story involving it.
‘Carl the yellow fish swam to a reef where he met his friends. As they were playing a shark approached ready to eat them. However as the shark got nearer they found that in fact he was a friendly shark who was just lonely and wanted to make friends’.

Although my story was not very imaginative or adapted it did reveal a beginning, middle and end incorporating a problem and resolution, but with more time could have been much more creative. It was also interesting that everyone used the yellow fish as the main character where it could have been simply been included as a ‘fly on the wall’.