Narrative Essay
By definition, a narrative is: a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. A narrative should be clear, easy to follow and full of enigma codes in order to keep the audience interested. In Year 12, we successfully used and understood the concept of narrative with our original film opening, Panophobia. Right from the start I knew I had clear ideas and themes in my head of identity, friendship and someone going missing. This tied in very well to our genre of "teen-drama", and allowed me and my group to create something audiences could both question and relate to. Our film opening was shot in a montage style, which cut between shots of our three characters messing around and doing everyday teen activities such as going to the arcade or running around school and short clips of photos of the girls being set alight. This let the audience know that our film opening was not as simple as an indie teen film, and had more complications and twists than one would think....