Joe Lee's NEA Blog

Notes: We have started this new project by watching some short films to gather an ideas about the title of the piece and what it might entail. The short films we watched ranged with different gendres and ideas...    The Operator : The fly: The Ellington Kid: The Arrival:

Task: For this task we were asked to write down two numbers next to a group of letters without being told what for. C 5 1 L 3 6 S 6 2 O 4 1 W  4 4 We were then given a grid with different mise-en-scene factors. The grid told us what situation we would be using to create a narrative. These are my results... (C)Characters 1+5: 'An old man who is always complaining' (L)Locations 3+6: 'Inside of a hollowed out glacier' (S)Situations 6+2: 'Battle of the Gods' (O)Objects 4+1: 'The golden amulet' (W)When 4+4: 'Many years in the future' Plot: Thousands of years in the future lived a not so average man inside of a hollowed out glacier, his job to look after a  Golden Amulet gifted to man from the gods . Burdened by his destiny, the old man must look after the treasure while the war of Gods rages on this is his story.. Mood board: Genre: Si-fi, adventure Potential actors; Leonardo DiCaprio- Old man...

3 act structure: The three act structure  is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a  story  into  three  parts (acts), often called the Setup, the Confrontation and the Resolution. The first act is usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships and the world they live in. Later in the first act, a dynamic, on-screen incident occurs that confronts the main character (the protagonis), whose attempts to deal with this incident lead to a second and more dramatic situation, known as the first turning point, which (a) signals the end of the first act, (b) ensures life will never be the same again for the protagonist and (c) raises a dramatic question that will be answered in the climax of the film. The dramatic question should be framed in terms of the protagonist's call to action, (Will X recover the diamond? Will Y get the girl? Will Z capture the killer?). This is known as the  inciting inc...