Week 8 Production Log

At the start of the week I had to look at Robert McKee's 'classical narrative structure' - where he examines the narrative structure of a work and what makes a story compelling or not. The main components of a narrative structure includes:

• Exposition/protagonist
• Agent of change
• Conflict/complications
• Elaboration
• Climax/resolution
• Coda

From this I have been able to examine and describe me and my group's movie in great depth and detail. This has helped me improve my analytical skills because I was able to alter anything that needed to be changed or add anything that could improve it. 

We had also been asked to have a "pitch and focus group' which was when we gather a group of 6 or more people together and pitch our movie idea to them. This will be recorded and uploaded, as they will listen carefully and give constructive feedback/criticism  based on what they heard from us. This was a very useful as not only as we are able to get a further insight of what other people thought about our proposed movie idea but we are able to improve it/ change anything that they have pointed out.

After the pitch and focus group editing techniques was the next step of researching and understanding. Some editing techniques we looked at and watched examples of include:

• Eyeline match
• Graphic match
• Jump cut
• Cross cutting

By looking at these examples of editing techniques we can see why they have been used and the effect they have on the audience.