Continuity editing task

We have just got our task for the continuity editing task and I have already done the script which is...

In an office with 2 chair and a desk.  Clean/messy depending on location. Person 1 sat down in a chair wearing smart.

Person1

Enter!

Person2 enters also in smart, and sits down in the other chair

Person2

Good morning!

Person1

Yes?

Person2

Umm…No?

Silence from Person1, tapping pen

Preson2

I think I’ll just leave.

Person2 gets up to leave, just before they leave Person1 says…

Person1

By the way the correct answer was “maybe”.

Person2

Right…

Person2 leaves.

EDIT for the 23/11/12: I have cut out Person 1's first line of "Enter!" and niether characters are in smart anymore. I did this to make it seem less informal and it is being filmed at school, so I'd have less filming time if we both had to change into our costumes.

Narritives

Narritive is how the story is told, ficton or non-fiction.

Simularities
All narritives share certian elements.
Audience's expectation will have an effect on the narritive


Theorists

Vladmir Propp  1875-1970

 

He looked at folktales. There are 8 characters (AKA spheres of action) in most stories.

They are:

Hero

Villian

Donor

Dispatcher

False

Helper/Sidekick

Princess

Princess's Father

 

31 function/story lines

 

Tzvetan Todorov  1939-

 

His theory was that at the start of a story it is in equilibrium then it goes to disequilibruim, and then by the end of the story it's back to equilibrium.

 

Rolands Barthes 1939

 

A single narritive has more than 1 storyline within it.

 

Some storylines within the narritive:

 

1. The enigma -sets up and solves the puzzle
2. The action -cutting unimportant stuff out
3. The semic -connections built around characters & actions
4. The symbolic - references we can pick up.
5. The cultral -Terminolgy

 

Claude Lévi-Strass 1908-2004

 

Narratives depend on binary opposition.

 

Rich/Poor

Weak/Strong

 

Stroylines reflect beliefs of the culture/society.