Module Brief
In today's lecture; we were set our brief for this module. Each student is required to make two short films: A narrative film (4-8 minutes long) and a non-narrative film (2-4 minutes long).
Each film must be made following the instructions of any one given subject. One of the narrative film topics in particular caught my eye; the "Back to the Front" film. One of the examples my lecturer used for this topic was a film called "Pulp Fiction", written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Having seen "Pulp Fiction" prior to this lecture, and it being one of my personal favourite films, I understood immediately what the idea of this topic was. This film starts right where the film ends, but when watching it for the first time; the audience is unaware that it is the end of the film. Throughout the film, it jumps between stories of different characters at different points in time, but by the time it finishes; everything makes sense. This is called a "disrupted narrative".
Another example of this sort of brief was a short film a famous director named "Brian Percival" made during his student years called "About a Girl", which is about a girl telling a story about her life in the present day, with flashbacks to the parts of her life that she is talking about.
I really like this style of film making as I think it tests just how well a film can tell a story, as in order for the viewer to understand it; everything has to work. The script has to be well written and well planned out, the actors have to give believable performances, it has to be able to keep an audiences attention for the entire film, and most importantly (I think), it must be edited PERFECTLY.
I have chosen to follow this brief as I want to test my film making ability, and with only 8 minutes to do it; a difficult challenge it will be.
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