Lens Based Media - Films/Narratives

During the Lens based Media week we looked at narratives and putting them into films. For this task I was to work in a group of six and create a short- no edit 1 minute film, using a tape camera.

First we set about generating ideas about what our storyline would be, so that we could make a storyboard and plan what shots we would need carefully, as we could not edit anything.

Brief storyline: Our film would be shot from two perspectives; the protagonist and then the antagonist, who would not actually be shown in the film in order to create a sense of mystery and a slight thrill.

(Left) Our basic storyboard, showing a visual reputation of the main shots we would like.









Our more detailed Storyboard, where we expanded the initial shot ideas and added a written description, so that our shots made sense and were easily understood with the pictures.

We then moved on to the production of the film which I personally thought went really well, we made few mistakes whilst filming, but this was almost unavoidable as we were only able to to pause our recording to cut between shots.

I was also pleased with how our narrative worked with our shot types and perspective, due to the fact we shot in first and third person, almost giving two storylines at a time.





Part 2

Still looking at narratives: I was asked to think of a memorable character/person I had seen at any point in my life, and then draw them. Next I was asked to draw the person, obviously I did not know anything about the person, however I was then asked to create a background story and information about the person and how they got to where they are now. My character was a homeless man who always had a white rat with red eyes kept on his shoulder, he has no family connections and also had a rough childhood. I then had to introduce an antagonist which would disrupt their day to day life, and the obvious antagonist was a child, as my protagonist did not have a particularly good childhood, therefore it would be interesting to see how they would react in a situation where a child is introduced.

With the antagonist introduced I was then able to create a storyboard and narrative about the two characters.