Friday, 12 November 2010

Narrative structure

Name: Hannah Blackmoor (Han)
Age: 17
Occupation: Sixth form Student
Appearance: Petite, blonde, pretty, big blue eyes, a tatoo behind her ear, several piercings
Personality: Caring, mature, loud around friends
Likes: Parties, make-up, going out with firends, skinny jeans, her UGGs, high heels, books
Dislikes: Outspoken people, violence, arrogance
Typical Phrase: "What are people doing this weekend?"
Charcetristics: Places fringe in a particular place, does not wear friendship bracelet which she shares with sister

Name: Eleanor Blackmoor (El)
Age: 17
Occupation: Sixth Form Student
Appearance: Dark-haired, short, slim
Personlaity: Shy, isolated, nervous deposition
Dislikes: Vanity, dominance



Yves Lamvandier is a French filmmaker, who in 1985 embarked on a script writing career. He created the idea of plotting a film in the structure as seen below. This structure ensures all the necessary elements are taken on when thinking about the film and is a clear method of setting your ideas when its time to propose and present your ideas to a producer or company.

Protagonist: Eleanor Blackmore, 17 years
Hannah Blackmore, 17years

Inciting incident
: Eleanor is uninvited to a huge year group party, later she is locked in the school gym by the "popular" girls.

Objective: She becomes crazy and decides to take revenge on the popular girls and Hannah

First act/second act transition: Shots of Eleanor plotting the revenge in her bedroom. The walls in her bedroom are covered in photos of the "pray" and a calender counting down until their birthday.

Internal incident: Eleanor has a split personality which causes her to to rethink her revenge and wait until the perfect time.

External incident: Hannah always has people with her which causes no alone time of just the two twins.


Climax: While Hannah sleeps, Eleanor starts her revenge by creeping into her bedroom and in red which is made to look like blood, writes the number 5 on her wall to indicate 5 days until their birthday, but also 5 days until her revenge is complete.

Dramatic answer: Negative, Eleanor has not managed to take her revenge yet.

Twist: Hannah teases Eleanor over dinner which causes Eleanor to freak out and leap across the table whilst trying to strangle Hannah infront of her family. This causes the mother to send Eleanor to a mental institution.

Third act: Eleanor escapes from the mental institution and decides to achieve her revenge at Hannah's masked birthday party.

Third climax: Eleanor is unrecognised at the party and finally kills Hannah and the two witnesses.

Second Dramatic answer
: yes, she killed her twin however with negative consequences.

1 comment:

  1. You MUST refer to the theorist who defined this narrative structure Yyves Lavandier

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_Drama

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