Tyree Webster
Task 6Narrative Genre Scenario Evaluation IMPROVED
Our narrative scenario was a small 'thriller- comedy' about 2 guys who steal a small drug lords' "drugs" (they were actually Skittles), he chases them down and all three get involved in a 'Mexican standoff'.
The small script that I wrote evolved into a loose parody of 'Breaking Bad', but not that much. We thought that it would be funny to create something that was attempting to be serious, but if we added in scenes that had 'wouldn't it be funny if...' scenarios and it became more like a Mel Brooks comedy. The scene we shot towards the end isn't funny because the 3 leads are making guns with their hands but because that they look as if they're going to do serious damage, which they all end up dead at the end.
Out of all of our genre scenarios we've done, this is the one that had most of the planning behind it. We decided on making a thriller very early and attempted to make it serious in tone during the writing stages, but decided that we'll make it a comedy- thriller hybrid that takes itself as seriously as possible.
When we filmed the actual video itself, we ran through very little trouble during production, it was a fairly simple shoot. We didn't run into many problems, in fact, we hardly ran into any. If there was perhaps one small problem we had though, is that on our first day of filming we were in one room where we filmed a shot that had to be specifically filmed there, so on our second day, we realised that we weren't going to be in that same room so we needed to rework our shooting and go against the script because we didn't (and couldn't) distract the other class. But, other than that very minor problem (which was easily fixed) we managed to shoot the scenario in a very short amount of time and it went very well.
The film is told in a non- linear way (which means that although the film has one clear narrative, there are points during the film that will go back to either bring up backstory or to set up the film). For our film, the ending is shown first (which can be considered quite unconventional for a film, but is used quite a lot), and then we flashback to the main story, telling the audience how we got to the Mexican standoff. This is also a film making technique called a 'cold open', and has been used in film's such as 'Pulp Fiction'.
I would compare our film to 'Pulp Fiction', they are both crime films but also have comedic scenes, too, and also shares some of the same themes, which helps with the narrative.
When we filmed the actual video itself, we ran through very little trouble during production, it was a fairly simple shoot. We didn't run into many problems, in fact, we hardly ran into any. If there was perhaps one small problem we had though, is that on our first day of filming we were in one room where we filmed a shot that had to be specifically filmed there, so on our second day, we realised that we weren't going to be in that same room so we needed to rework our shooting and go against the script because we didn't (and couldn't) distract the other class. But, other than that very minor problem (which was easily fixed) we managed to shoot the scenario in a very short amount of time and it went very well.
The film is told in a non- linear way (which means that although the film has one clear narrative, there are points during the film that will go back to either bring up backstory or to set up the film). For our film, the ending is shown first (which can be considered quite unconventional for a film, but is used quite a lot), and then we flashback to the main story, telling the audience how we got to the Mexican standoff. This is also a film making technique called a 'cold open', and has been used in film's such as 'Pulp Fiction'.
I would compare our film to 'Pulp Fiction', they are both crime films but also have comedic scenes, too, and also shares some of the same themes, which helps with the narrative.
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