Wednesday, 26 January 2011

A NAME IS BORN

in this post i will tell you what title we have picked

INSOMNIUM

Insomnium is the Latin equivalent of nightmares. The reason why we picked it was mainly due to the abstractness of the title and what thoughts and feelings it inhibits, i found that once i conducted a mini survey i found that once people heard this title it intrigued them and left them asking more

another reason for the reason i picked this was that it reflects our target audience that we are tying to capture with the inclusion of more older themes that were also present in inception (2010) and partly to do with the success of it.

Saturday, 15 January 2011

TO NAME OR NOT TO NAME...

in this post i will state some working titles that are currently attached to our project

INSOMNIUM
this title means nightmares in latin

SOMNIA
this title means dreams in latin

HYPNOS
this title is given to the greek god of dreams and nightmares

all these have a constant theme of dreams, sleep and nightmares which is a crucial narrative tool within our text

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

MEDIA NARRATIVE OUTLINE

Narrative 1

Genre: horror/ slasher

Setting: school

Narrative:

Starts off in a school assembly were the head boy has jus announced that a girl has gone missing. They organize search parties, in the course of doing this people start to die it soon becomes apparent that the girl is behind all of the killing through the uses of emails that had been sent in the police is then called in to apprehend the girl but they arrive too late resulting in her killing the head boy.

Narrative 2

Genre: fantasy/ drama

Setting: unknown

Narrative:

A normal guy with a normal job starts to have a recurring dream of a woman killing herself these dreams then start to happen while he is awake he thinks of them of nothing but mere daydreams but he then starts to recognize the places where the woman tries to kill herself he rushes to the point but once he gets there she is nowhere to be found he would ultimately find out something that will shake the foundation of his world

Narrative 3

Genre: drama/social realist

Setting: council estate

Narrative:

A single mother that was pregnant has her baby as a single parent she find it hard to cope with financial issues as well as the problems that the child has the mother gets her son check out it is then found out that the child has a disability that is degenerative. A few years pass and the child has become very ill and cannot function in everyday life properly she decides to euthanize the child when she does it she feel very guilt and as a result commits suicide

We as a collective group decided that narrative one’s was very simple to perform from using various techniques to increase the texts level of verisimilitude however decide not to go with it due to the oversaturation of texts that are similar in the market. We also reject narrative 3 due to the difficulties that would have been faced with the laps in time in the narrative which would result in us casting two actors for one character. so finally we decided that narrative 2 was the most sensible original with high levels of verisimilitude that will show a original and high standard narrative