Category: Video Essay

Initial Research

Here are our groups intial ideas and working around what everyone wants to do. We focused on picking a documentary idea that all of us could find interest in and be able to fulfill our roles succesfully while maintaining good communication.

Our Production Meeting Agreement: where we decided what we wanted to achieve during our shoots.

A short storyboard to help us plan ahead and get a rough idea of our plan for the narrative and storyline of the documentary.

Narrative of Nosferatu 

Horror Narrative Research and Structure

• • Exhibition, disruption, climax, revelation, ending (equilibrium)
  • Epiphany
  • Murder / death
  • Chronology / anachronic
  • Story and investment
  • Forking paths

• 3 act structure (paradigm) beginning, middle and end.

• Set up (25%), 

• • • Characters introduced
    • Setting introduced
    • Plot navigated 
    • First issue hinted at

• confrontation(50%),

• • • Change in location
    • Apex of tension
    • Momentum swings in different locations
    • Good guys take losses
    • Moment of crisis
    • Ends on finding out what to do

• resolution(25%) 

• • • Realisation of how to win
    • Working together
    • Putting it all together to win 

• 5 act structure shakespeare 

• Exposition

• • • • Setting up world, conflicts in place ,protagonists introduced

• Complications

• • • • Tension mounts, momentum builds, conflict begins

• Climax

• • • • Development of conflict is the highest point, hero at crosspoint, one leads to victory the other to failure. Antagonists attack, often small defeat

• Falling actions

• • • • Reversals, protagonists react to defeat, reversing behaviour and working together against the enemy.

• Catastrophe 

• • • Either hero wins or hero loses (tragic), sacrifice and fighting ending up to win. 
• The 5 act is similar to the traditional 3 act structure, and adds 3 acts into Act 2. (2,3,4 are all part of the traditional Act 2) – extra detail. 
• An act is a dramatic question; the protagonist must answer by choosing the right way to solve the problem. Leads the main characters to make a new choice, one they cannot go back on.

Representation of a Vampire

‘Nosferatu’ (1922) – Silent Movie

Scene Micro-analysis

Horror Genre – Repetoire of Elements

Suckablood – Short Horror Video

 

Horror Monsters

I researched the Werewolf,; this monster is a human who goes through a transformation, traditionally under a full moon, and turns into a mutant wolf or sometimes just a strong wolf. It is often visibly different to a normal wolf or normal human and can be killed with silver weapons. It is found in several horror movies, notably; The Wolfman 1941 and even The Twiglight Sagas.

Here is a poster for ‘The Wolfman” (1941)