Production Log 9

A shooting script is used in the production of a film and includes shot types, shot angles, description of action, equipment needed, SFX, music, lighting, actors and shot movement. It needs all these things so that someone else could use the shooting script and make a scene which looks to how it was originally intended by the creator.

From the shooting script exercise I learnt that to make an effective shooting script you need to make it clear what you need in the scene from the beginning like what actors are in the shot where you want them to stand, and what props are visible in the shot, it is also important that you keep consistency within the script as the shooting script we used kept swapping character and actor's names in the description of action making it very confusing what to do. I also learnt that if you have a good shooting script with everything planned out you can record a scene in a much faster time than you would if you didn't and this will be useful to me when making my film as there are time constraints

The strengths of my task is that we followed the scripts camera shots and types resulting in a wide range of shots. The weaknesses were that the piece did not have continuity, the actors did not stay in character and the mise en scene did not suit the piece.

What I learnt about narrative last week was about linear and non linear narrative, restricted and omniscience narrative and Mckee's narrative structure.

A linear narrative is where the story is shown chronologically this is a convention of most films, non linear narrative is when a film shows you parts from different times during the piece an example of this is Trainspotting and Goodfellas where the opening shows a part that happens later in the film.

A restricted narrative is a narrative that shows it from only one person's perspective and everything that character knows and only that character the audience knows an omniscient narrative is one from many perspective to try and give the audience as much information as possible and may know more than characters in the film. Not many films use restricted narrative but almost all use a omniscient narrative.