Three Act Structure - P1.

Act I: Setup

This act introduces the main characters and their place in a contemporary, historical, future and/or fantasy reality. Also an incident occurs that causes the protagonist(s) to react to this incident.

Act 2: Conflict

Act 2 is devoted to the protagonist trying to understand and resolve the situation arising from the first turning point.  This takes time because most protagonists are on a journey of innocence to experience. Aided and opposed by other characters, the protagonist must acquire the knowledge, skills and/or self awareness needed to achieve a resolution. This character development constitutes the “character arc.” At the other end of the arc is the Second Plot Point, a.k.a. Second Turning Point, which involves the protagonist understanding all and knowing what to do about it.

Act 3: The “Resolution”

This act resolves all plot and subplot conflicts. This is normally the shorter of the three acts, particularly when Act 3 is a “Hollywood ending.” Most action in movies is occasioned by conflict; the least action by happiness.  

Different Types of Narratives - P1.

When it comes to stories in media such as TV, radio and documentary films. There's a range of different narratives & structures in their stories:

1. Circular - This story structure starts with an ending and then reverts back to the beginning of the story, and then progresses back to the end of the story to show the view, how the story got to this outcome. For example: Hoodwinked

2. Linear - Events occur in Chronological order. For example: Back to the future.

3. Episodic - Events are split into bit size pieces, that are contained in wider narrative archs which are used to tell stores over multiple episodes. For example: Bad Time at the El Royale.

4. Non-Liner - Where events are not in order and the view must piece them together for the story to be revealed i.e. Dunkirk

Every narrative type has different focuses on their users. Some make them obvious that the stories are linked, whereas some don't make them obvious at all and usually only have hints. This can be shown by Pulp Fiction where it's multiple stories into one and then they soon relate to each other to reveal the starting scene. This is a good way to tell the story because it reels the viewer in before they actually view the movie.

Two more narrative styles include single stranded and multi stranded. These are how the stories narrative flows.

Single stranded: This is a narrative that follows a main character or protagonist even if there is an antagonist who disrupts the equilibrium. An example of this is in Black Panther, you follow the protagonist in his efforts to defeat the antagonist.

Multi stranded: This is where multiple stories take place at once. This can be shown by Hoodwinked, which takes the stories of all the characters in the movie and puts them all together at the end instead. These all take place at the same time, but in different locations.

The Angle of Article - P1.

Angle of article

The angle of article is the way that a media product is written, the language it uses and the way it makes the reader feel. Angle of article usually applies to a non-fiction piece with the usual suspects being newspapers, TV broadcasts and documentaries. The way that a writer addresses the story will effect the way that the reader/viewer feels about the story as well as their viewpoint on the story. Most news stories will include the same facts, but the language used - or interviews with certain people- will change the way that a person feels about the story.

An example of when the same story is written with more than one angle by multiple news channels is the 'Kaufman family rescue'.

Script 1 - ABC 10 News (Link to the video)

ABC News tries to come off more sympathetic to the family, they take the blame away from the family. This is because they say that most families go on holiday, it's just that this family had an unknown issue occur.

Script 2 - CBS News (Link to the video)

CBS are more biased against the family, this is shown by how they portray the family as fools, this makes the viewers less sympathetic towards the family, this means that they also made the family be seen as a burden towards the local authorities.

Annotating my script - M1.

Along with the points that has already been stated, my script has also taken the exact same font that the example from Call of Juarez provided. This font being 'Courier New'. Along with this, I also used the idea that characters who are speaking have their name capitalised, this goes along with the EXT/INT part of the setting. These are key conventions to the video game scripts that are important along with the indentations within the script. When writing my script, my key weakness was the indentations because if I over wrote a part of the script on one line, I would have to go back to it and re indent this and everyone after it until the next section of the script. As a result, this was the hardest convention to cover in my script.

Media scripts PowerPoint - P1.

Here is a link to the scripts that have been done about: Video game scripts, Radio scripts, Television scripts, and Movie scripts.

The link to the presentations.

Film

TV

Radio

Video Games

The Link to the website

The Direct Link to the Script

Four Scripts annotated - P1.

My script - P4.

Due to importing issues, I had to take screenshots of the script instead.