Terror In the Night & Change In Narrrative

In this lesson we made our own storyboard and explored transitions used and timing in narration. Therefore we made our own storyboard based on a horror genre with a title called "Terror In the Night" we then came up with the following storyboard below. We then had to chose what transitions we wanted in between each scene.

Different transitions, for example:

- dissolve

- fade

- zoom

- jump cut

- straight cut

- fade to white/black

- flip and many more

As well as this we then had to decide on the timings of how long we wanted a certain scene to be displayed for. This allowed me to explore the idea and the effects these two aspects have on the narrative and therefore the viewers. I then realised that the longer you keep something on screen the more emphasised it become and the short bursts of something can speed up the narrative and give it a more thriller or horror type feel. This led me to realise that a lot of factors affect the narrative and how the timing and transitions are two of them.

Using these storyboards we then had to look at changing the order of events in our storyboards to see the effects it would have on the narrative and anything else. We then moved the middle scenes to beginning which played on the narrative and how the audience therefore saw the story. This is because narrative effects the story and how it is portrayed. By doing this I realised that we were using Todarov's theory of narrative and how if we put the end at the start we therefore have to explain how we got to such a conclusion and this creates a loop. I then also played around with the scenes by moving the scariest moment of them of the close up face.

I then realised this removed all chances of the short story being remotely scary and in fact changed the genre completely. This then suggested to me how much the narrative and editing could effect things and not just the structure and how the story is portrayed but actually the entire film or story and its genre.