Production Log week 6

This past week our main focus has been targeted towards completing all the tasks previously given and getting ahead of task to stay organized and professional to achieve the best possible grade. In specifics we have been looking closely at different types of narrative and  analyzing film treatments and how and why they are used. Also we have been looking at the difference between stories, plots and narrative. Stories are the events in the order of their occurrence, whereas plot is the order in which they are told to the audience, this is what is told and lastly narration is about the structure of the text, this is how it is told.

There are various types of narratives, these are; 

• Linear narrative; Where the story has a start, middle and end in that order
• Non linear narrative: This is where the narrative is not in chronological order, E.g. Flashbacks

How narrative information is conveyed to the audience:

• Restricted narrative: Narrative from only one character in the story, audience has limited access to narrative events as see only events as the character does.
• Omniscient narrative: Narrative from more than one character in the story, audience has access to more narrative events (sometimes knowing more than the characters)

Knowing and understanding the different types of narrative will allow use to implicate one of the types or even use both in our own production.

Film treatment: A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture, television program, or radio play. The purpose of a film treatment, is to give a visual guide when creating a film, to keep the production as accurate as possible and to make sure everything is compatible and makes sense.