Change of narrtive

During late planning stages and the beginning of the shoot we started to feel that our footage had little narrative and worried it may fail to captivate any audiences attention, we planned to use various friends as actors but reflecting upon last years disorganization due to actors unable o make it, me and my partner Chelsea decided to was best to use ourselves to avoid any delays on our already slow shooting schedule. However this lead to change of plot/ narrative; whilst still using concepts of time passing and and the borders between past present and future, we used the concept of nostalgia, looking back on the past fondly. However we felt we were unable to fully portray nostalgia due to the footage seeming to be looking back on the past in a slightly negative way, although this is quiet ambiguous.

Narrative modes and structure:

 Use of flashbacks: 

•Flashback are interjected clips/ frames that takes the narrative back in time previous to when the current frames are set, and can be crucial to give the viewer the back story in some situations. Flashbacks can also take narrative somewhere outside of time all together, by acting as an individuals internal image of the past as they are imagining it, acting as a visual representation of the stream of consciousness.

•Flashbacks must be made clear to the audience so that they do not get the narratives chronology mixed up, this has been achieved in many ways throughout various media texts . For example, the edges of the picture may be deliberately blurred, photography may be jarring or choppy, or unusual coloration or sepia tone, or monochrome when most of the story is in full colour, may be used.

•In my production i hope to use full colour image's to represent the present time, and black and white to represent the flash backs to the past, although this will still be more complex than it first seems. The full colour images, contrasting the black and white clips i wish to portray as part of a battle in the male characters stream of consciousness between the past (delusion) and the present (reality), I hope to achieve this in order to relate to the title of the song, nostalgia, although I want to leave the true meaning ambiguous to the audience.

 

 

Use of montage:

 

•The narrative structure of my production is rather complex and utilizes a montage technique, fading/ cutting with the beat, creating a link between the music and the visuals, which is important for the stream of consciousness technique I attempted to utilize to. Eisenstein describes montage as an alternative form of  form of  “continuity editing”. That is putting together a number of frames to create meaning, one frame informs the other. 

•I therefore plan to use this convention of narrative structure to put clips of footage together which on their own have little meaning, to create a continual flow of images which i aim to be representative of the character's continual ebb and flow of thoughts and feelings and consciousness.