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Lesson plan - mise en scene in TGR + E.T.

Macro elements 

Evaluating – Where have I  been all your  life? ‘Where have I been all your life’ is a comedy, drama short film. The narrative is the most important element of the short and keeps the audience engaged throughout, the narrative is mostly driven by dialogue. Liam’s character helps make the short comical this gives the film ebullient feel despite the sensitivity around the plot.  A linear narrative is established throughout, one which can conform to todorrovs narrative theory of equilibrium. Liam and Suzie begin in the car, from the diegetic dialogue the audience find out that Liam is searching for his father he has never met, this is the equilibrium. The uncertainty of the narrative continues throughout as you don’t expect what will happen. The disruption of the equilibrium is when Liam tells John and Angela that he is johns son which outlines that John has cheated on Angela. Next Liam comforts distraught Angela and both John and Angela try to work out the mother of Lia...

Improvements to film idea Time --> The man might have to take his pill at 9 everyday but takes it at 11 one day and Instead of going from the good to the bad quite drastically, i could possibly build it up by the man going on a run doing his normal routine and then he sees a corpse for a split second, then a shot of his face and then the shot goes back to where the corpse was but its gone. Then the next day he could decide not to take it and he has the major nightmare where everything goes wrong and he is finally able to see what is happening in reality that the pill just suppresses him from seeing what is happening in real life  i could possibly shoot a scene where we see what is happening through the mans eyes but then cross cut it with what is reality Do original idea however at the end go back to the shot of boy taking pill as if to show that is what will happen if he does not take the pill   The updated idea:

initial presentation