Narrative Events.

Film Name: “CLOCKWORK”

PRODUCER: BGRD productions

Vague film Idea - Basic first idea’s to how we believe our film opening should work. 

Conventions that we wish to incorporate  - Enigma (Flash Backs), Mystery (Character/story line), confusion, Darkness (The Unknown), Death, Morally complex character (Is really mysterious and unknown to the audience) - “Narrative Retardation”, The use of silence - this is used to create tension and suspense between the audience and maybe characters - Pathetic Fallacy - Calm before the storm - Foreshadowing what’s to come later on in the film

Narrative Events 

1. Flash backs - We have flash backs for enigma code convention - father writing a will to his son - leaves the son a mysterious pocket watch (“Narrative retardation” and Catalyst). Note is attached to the watch with the phrase “You you know what to do...”.

“Mystery narration - Unknown to the audience - Narrative retardation

Father writing the will - Monologue in the characters head”

1. Character A is following somebody - the audience don’t know anything about character A - “Narrative retardation” - The man is wearing a mask to cover up his/her identity (Mystery, Narrative retardation, Mask “Minor Catalyst”) Character A is in a hall way - we see  character A in a hall way (Location - mysterious and unknown to audience - picked up later in the story - Narrative retardation. We see the catalyst - the pocket watch - in character A’s hand.

1. Character A - we see standing over character B’s dead body - character B’s  we see walking away from the man in the hall - character B does not notice this. Character B is dead in the next scene - “Narrative Retardation”
2. Character A (In mystery location) see a girl crying at a grave - we see character A looking at Character C crying over a grave - the man seems to interested in what she’s doing - we can’t see why she’s crying but we see no emotion from character A for the mask hides it all.
3. We see character A get out a pocket watch - we see the pocket watch and relate it to the first image we saw of the image we saw at the start of the opening sequence - links between the start and the current story start to be made. We see the pocket watch and the mask fall to the floor.
4. Character C goes over to the area where the objects are dropped to investigate - we see her approach the mask and the watch - ending with a fade out to darkness...