Character Profile: Eve

Eve is the girlfriend of Adam, and alongside Adam lives as the room tenant of the house owned by Ular. Eve is intrigued and endulged by Ular's behaviour, he tempts her and is the reason for the downfall in her relationship with Adam. She is a modern representation of Eve from the Genesis story from the Bible of 'Adam & Eve'. Similarly with Adam, Eve is made to look indigent and beggarly which is the reason for her being tempted by Ular. The huge contrast between Eve and Ular will make the audience suspect an underlying desire for her to try something more affluent and fruitful.

Character Profile: Adam

Adam is an impecunious and underprivileged character which contrasts with Ular Kadir's prosperity lavishness. Adam is usually seen wearing downmarket clothing that represent and emphasise his deprived character. However, Adam is a motivated and driven by the desires of Eve and will do absolutely anything to fulfill her needs. I ensured Adam was a character that was created so that a male audience were able to relate to him through ways of normality and behaviour. Adam has very few privileges in his life but only cares about his once perfect relationship with Eve.

Character Profile: Ular Kadir

Ular Kadir is the male antagonist for my film, Welcome To Eden. Ular is the owner of the house that Adam and Eve rent a room in (The Garden of Eden). The appearance of Ular is extremely flamboyant showing off a lot of wealth along with his eccentric character. The character is based around the snake in Genesis and we had to make him a mysterious and unnerving member of the film; the words Ular and Kadir both have snake connotations. The glasses play a huge role in hiding his identity.

Construction: Equipment

I have a large variety of equipment to use to get the best results from the filming my group and I are doing for our film Welcome To Eden. The equipment I have been using includes:

- Nikon D5200
- Nikon DX 35MM Prime Lens
- Rode VideoMic Pro
- A GorillaPod Flexible Tripod 
- Camera Attachable Light System

Planning: Theoretical Frameworks on Narrative

VLADIMIR PROPPS 

 Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.

Propp suggested that every narrative has eight different character types, such as:

The Villain - Fights the hero

The dispatcher –one who sends the hero out, and makes the villain’s evil known

The (magical) helper –the sidekick who accompanies and helps out the hero

The Princess or the prize – the reward for the hero, what he is trying to save or acquire, usually to the villains dismay.  

Her father – gives the task to the hero and identifies the false hero.

The donor – prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object

The hero or victim/seeker hero – reacts to the donor, weds the princess.

False hero – takes credit for the hero’s actions, or try’s to marry the princess. 

 Where short films differ from full-length feature films, obviously in the length but also they have a twist so characters are not always who you think they are there roles may shift in the course or the narrative a hero might turn out to be a villain or vice versa. This is true in our film as the characters are not what they seem at first. 

There are likely to be a short range of characters in a short film like mine and so it’s unlikely to find the range of characters, as in Propps complex plots. My short film for example has four: the hero, the Villain, the princess/prize and the false hero. 

Propps theory  is useful to us, as we have clearly have distinguished character profiles. Although in our film we reverse the roles in the audiences eyes making the original hero into the Villain. At first the audience see "the player", appearing to leave love notes scattered around a library for 'the princess', attempting to lure her in, but this is soon exposed as false when the reveal of the real hero. This play on roles is effective in a short film as the audience do not have long enough to form a connection to a character. 

The main advantage of having very clear cut roles in a short film is that audiences need to grasp the character very quickly within the first minute but they characterscannot afford to be over simplistic because that might mean sacrificing the chance for enigma or the twist.

LEVI STRAUSS:

Drama is about conflict.

opposites can be equally powerfull-creates the tension 

the interest of the powerful forces that clash 

all naratives could be reduced down to binary opposites 
hero vs villain

conflict propels all narrative 

conflict can only end with resolution 

This applies to us in our film as there is the conflict between who is the nice guy and who deserves the beautiful girl. Although we do not directly have the 'nice guy' and the 'player', have direct conflict with one another, but the clash is highlighted upon with the 'player' taking credit for the 'nice guys' notes, as well as him changing his personality on the date with the 'princess' and becoming rude.  

As we have to come to a conclusion of this conflict, the reveal of the true and worthy 'nice guy' is revealed, to both the audience and the girl herself.

ROLAND BARTHES

Has created five different code, but I have looked into two that have links and parallels that would work with my short film and short films in genural. 

 

 Hermeneutic code- CSI solving idea getting clues hasn't been explain fully needs solving resolving all links all loose ends need tying up mystery unraveled to makesatisfied audience. What drives narrative our desire to see the mystery explained. 

Proairetic code- domino effect this leads on to this which causes this. Explains plots which are a series of linked events where an action leads to another action.  The audience is curious about the result of each event what is going to happen as a result of what just happened. 

 Our film has a proairetic code, as each scene effects what happens in the next. It does this in terms of character relationship, setting and how the audience feelabout a certain idea or character.

TODOROV

Equilibrium status quo things as they are stable 

then something happens- dis equilibrium unbalance someone corrupts something else state of confusion.

have to deal with the problem- acknowledgment

resolve the problem -Resolution

 New equilibrium 

Poster Analysis

F IS FOR FAKE

In today's lesson I watched a video tutorial on editing by Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting. It discusses how to edit effectively.

Planning: Shot List

Planning: Call Sheets

Treatment: Google Docs

My group and I have used Good Docs software to present our treatment. It is a efficient way to communicate and alter our treatment as a group and cooperate on our laptops when we're not together.