Tasks to complete before filming

Applying Narrative to Final Idea

Narrative

Our short film will follow a linear narrative structure as it follows a story in chronological order as to emphasise the changes the boy makes every night. By keeping a structure linear it means we can also use lighting to enhance the changes made by the boy which wouldn't come across as clearly with a non-linear structure.

As we are making a horror our narrative will flout Todorov's narrative theory in that there will be no 'new equilibrium' this is due to our film ending on a twist/cliff hanger which suggests more horror in the story but not the plot. However, our short film will start with an 'equilibrium' and move into a 'disequilibrium' but as stated will stay in this 'disequilibrium' for horror effect.

This is common in many horror films and can be linked directly with The Woman In Black especially as the audience is led to believe for a short period of time that a new 'equilibrium' has been been found but then it is revealed to not be true in the last seconds of the film with a simple twist/cliff hanger.