Friday 21 March 2014
I've been doing further researching into creating a story/ narrative arc for the documentary, and have came across a few more useful websites, that will help me to give this story a clear narrative structure for the audience to follow.
Even tho we have an overall idea of what our story is, we still need to make sure that we have a clear, concise, chronological narrative structure in order to help show our story to the audience, making sure that they have something logical to follow, such as a storyline; which would mainly consist of an introduction, problem, climax, resulting in a resolution to the problem.
Here are some of the website that i've used for this research:
Gives you the outline of a narrative structure
https://sites.google.com/site/videophotodesign/home/video/script-writing/seven-cs-elements/configuration-dramatic-arc
Two really good website on documentary structure giving film examples!
http://newdocediting.com/client-resources/resources/
http://newdocediting.com/2011/07/declaring-your-documentary%E2%80%99s-central-thesis/
http://newdocediting.com/2010/09/declaring-your-documentarys-central-thesis/
Another good website to add onto the information learned from the previous two websites
http://www.writersstore.com/documentary-storytelling-the-drama-of-real-life/
Further information about story writing, and developing central message/thesis of documentary
http://www.ncdcr.gov/Portals/32/PDF/NHD%20Documentary.pdf
Very basic but very good and refreshing for the basic principles of story telling
http://www.flocabulary.com/five-ws/
