Narrative Structure for Short Film

 When planning our short film, we needed to create a narrative structure that would outline the events taking place within our short production. We needed to take into account mise en scene, props, the setting, and how we were going to incorporate these features into our film. In this post you will be able to see the planning 'sketches' that we created in order to represent how the scene would take place. We've listed the use of non-diagetic and diagetic sound, and which camera angles we will be using to represent our film.

The images below were taken by me to show that we had a highly detailed level of planning, knowing the elements, and key features that would need to be taken into account with each scene. Please click on the images below for an enlarged image.

 

This is a picture of one of our storyboarding sheets, this particular one was our second draft.

The image shows our opening scene, where the car is heading towards the child but the child remains unaware of the threat.



This is our second shot where the camera will give point-of-view shots of the perspectives of the driver and the child.

Our third shot shows the child has been killed in the car accident, and the camera will track away from the scene to show the devastation 



Our fourth shot shows the killer being pushed into a bin by an unseen force, which later turns out to be the ghost of the child, who lusts for revenge.

The image above shows our 'mirror scene' this scene needed more planning
as we were unsure as to how we would achieve filming this scene.



This is additional storyboarding, this was also our second draft.

We would incorporate long shots into our film to show the killer's actions whilst
contrasting with the setting for our scene.



Another scene which would be difficult to film is where the killer is being dragged
down the stairs. We would need to position the camera correctly in order
to achieve this scene.

As you can see we have used stick men to plan our film, we believed it would take less time
within our time schedule, but we didn't feel the sketches would need to be of a high standard
as the information for portraying each scene is much more important.