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Narrative Structure

Difference between story and narrative:
There is a fairly big difference between story and narrative, because a story has an ending, it also has a beginning middle and end, where as a narrative is open ended and allows the audience to think more about the ending themselves, rather than just telling the audience what happens, narrative allows them to use their imagination. The audience can also involve themselves more into a narrative when re telling the tale, as a narrative allows them to create their own ending, a story can only be told one way because it follows an order.
3 Act narrative structure:
1) Equilibrium - Introduces characters  relationships and where they live, also includes the beginning of the climax and shows characters having sense of realism and realising what it is they have to do to resolve the situation.
2) Disequilibrium - The main climax occurs (Exciting part), usually involves the characters learning new skills to solve the climax as well.
3) New Equilibrium - Everything is resolved, characters have usually mastered a new skill by the end of this, and have new relationships, and have achieved their goals.

5 act classic Hollywood structure:
1) Exposition
2) Development
3) Complications
4) Climax
5) Resolution
This is the structure that would be taken when creating a Hollywood film, as it adds more of a story, and makes the story more exciting, because it adds more detail.

Linear narrative structure - Events within a film or story that have a chronological order, and tell a story in a certain correct order (more common). Example - 'Frozen' follows a linear structure, as it follows a chronological order throughout the whole story, and has a straight forward beginning middle and end.
Non Linear narrative structure - Events within a film or story are presented in a non chronological order, and does not follow a direct pattern. Example - 'Kill Bill' follows a non linear narrative structure because it doesn't follow a chronological pattern, as it constantly keeps using flash backs into the past, therefore not following a specific pattern.
Diagram showing narrative Structure and Chronological order of 'Pulp Fiction':

Documentary 'Black Fish'

Blackfish documentary 

Story: The story of this documentary is about a killer whale called tilikam who was accused of attAcking and killing a trainer called Daun. It is also about the general behaviours of killer whales both in captivity and out of captivity. It shows how fisherman used to hunt the baby killer whales and separate them from their mothers, and how similar killer whales are to human in behaviours for mothering their babies, and in fact he psychological damage that can be caused by separating them from their young, the whales in the wild would used tactics in working together to hide their babies from the fisherman. It is also about how the press tried covering the killing of Daun and went from blaming the whale to blaming her to save sea world, it covers the history of all of whale killing and also the injuries made at sea world by the whales, and makes the audience aware that the trainers are not aware of all of these injuries in the past until the happening of Daun which was unexplainable, it

shows the power of the killer whale and how captivity can drive a whale to committing murder and also hurting themselves and the other whales around turning them aggressive, which is not known in the wild to happen as the whales have more space in the ocean to swim. It also includes information on how a whale in captivity can differ in behaviour with the other surrounding whales, for instance in the wild, the whales get on as they have plenty of space to rome and get away from other whales when stressed, where as in captivity the whales cannot escape the stress by going alone therefore forcing them to behave aggressively, This theory is backed up with real footage to demonstrate the ways in which whales attack, for example the worst case included is when a whale teethed the main artery in another whale

from stress which resulted in the other whale bleeding to death, it also includes facts showing whales act more aggressively towards humans in captivity than in the wild as proven with real footage again the worst case scenario being when a whale jumped over another whale being ridden and hit the whale trainer,which resulted in the trainers body being held together only by the wetsuit.

Narrative: The narrative to this feature documentary 'blackfish' used single interviews with all of the trainers showing only the trainer on screen talking to the camera, it also includes real footage of all the events being mentioned of both whales attacking other whales and between whales and people, it shows the injuries that other whales got from other whales, mainly the injuries that tilikam endured from the female whales that attacked him, which he should have been separated from, but wasn't due to how much his semen was worth. It also includes Footage of all the killer whale and trainer shows presented at sea world, the narrative also includes pictures of the papers explaining the incident

involving daun and tilikam, and pictures showing the documents of all the injuries to trainers from killer whales. There are also pictures of seaworld itself and all of the whale pools. The narrative also includes footage of the whales in the ocean being captured by the fisherman, and pictures of the fisherman dumping the baby deceased whales back into the ocean to sink their bodies, animations presenting how the whales attempted escaping the fisherman were also made.

Agency: The agency have gone about this by interviewing the whale trainers individually asking for their preference on the situation involving Tilikam the whale and the killing of the trainer Daun, the trainers also went on to saying what they thought happened, and what daun was like and their feelings about working there, and being with the whales, the agency also went about this by adding and finding footage of the incident involving Tilikam and Daun's attack, and also footage of other incidents involving whales and humans, and whales with other whales, the agency also used footage of the fisherman and interviewed one of the fisherman that has fished for baby killer whales. Videos of the whales in shows were also put into 'Blackfish'.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOeH-Oq_1Y

Documentary Pitch

Dog Strange Behaviour

Story: This is my pitch for the documentary I may make, it would be about dog strange behaviour, I would base it on my Staffordshire Bullterrier who constantly chased her tale from a young puppy, who is now aged four, and managed to catch her tale from chasing it to much, which then drove her to having to have her tail amputated! because she bit it off and it sent her mad! The reason I would pitch my idea on Cora is because the reason for why she did it is still unknown, even though she had to be consulted by a dog psychiatrist, two specialist vets, and be transferred to a animal hospital in milton. She also had a licking problem where she licked the skin off of her paw yet would not stop. It would start that she just chased her tail occasionally as any dog or puppy would, she already had a problem which involved her licking her paw obsessively to the point that she licked all of her paws fur off and caused scratches and grazes to occur in between her paws and underneath on her pads, and no matter how much anyone told her off she wouldn't stop! It got to the point that she would be fine when people were around but as soon as she was left alone for even a second she would start, or she would take herself off to the bottom of the garden purposely just to have ago at her paw. She then started chasing her tail more often playfully as a game when bored, but one day when everyone came in from work and college, the tip of her tail was gone, and there was blood all over the bedroom floor, we rushed her to the vets, which checked her for mange as this is common in Staffordshire Bullterriers, fleas as we have other animals - dogs, cats, chickens etc., and many other skin

conditions that could have caused her to do this, although the vet found nothing and could not understand what had caused her to do this, so they gave her a cone to stop her reaching her tail, and left it to heal, although when she got home, she got worse due to the pain and irritation, she would sit with her cone on which she had to have on because she was still trying to bite more of her tail off, and she would wine for hours, and keep spinning and spinning and spinning, a week later we still kept finding blood on the floor and her hood/cone would still be on her, we found out that she had been hooking the cone on her tail when sitting to keep it still, and carrying all biting her tail off, it got shorter! and she got worse. We went back to the vets that sent her to a vet hospital in cambridge, and they got a dog psychiatrist to look her over, and investigate more into the issue, they kept her records as they were so interested in her because she had no problems just a obsessive compulsive disorder, found in humans where she mentally cannot stop! they ended up amputating her tail so that she has a stump so that she couldn't cause no more harm to herself, they put it down to her self harming herself as a human would, due to the fact that she doesn't like being alone. She now has to have her hood on pretty much permanently at the age of just 4 as she still cannot and won't stop licking her paw and chasing her stump, as she still spins 24/7 and she still licks her foot to the point it cuts, if she doesn't have her hood on, we can only take her hood off if we are watching her, otherwise she starts again.

Narrative: The narrative would include images of Cora and also videos of her spinning and trying to get her tail, I would also involve interviews with the members of the family involved in the situation, and images if i could find any of the damage she caused herself.

Agency: As the agency I would go about this involving one on one interviews and live footage of Cora repeating her actions of self harm constantly over and over again.

OR

Cat gave birth whilst laying on dog

Story: Our friend found a cat on lakenheath yard-sale that was heavily pregnant, it was an american couple who were selling her, as they were going back to America, but if nobody took her they were going to dump her on the streets, we bought her for a very low amount, they also gave us a cat stand and feeder to go with her, she was only a kitten though, she was seven months old, and due to have her kittens in one month, so she was still very young herself. She wasn't used to dogs so we had to introduce her to them as well, which she soon got used to, she Favorited out border collie x Shepard 'Murphy' 11 years old, all of the animals love him due to his placid relaxed nature. She had her kittens a month later it was the middle of the night and Murphy was asleep at the bottom of the bed, we was all woken by hearing some meowing, and we went into the room he was sleeping, and Tilly the kitten was laying on top of his belly having her kittens. He layed there with his head up, wide awake, as he doesn't like the cats touching him, although he tolerates them and would not hurt a fly, and will go up to animals if he senses there is a problem, which he obviously sensed something was up as she was right on top if him, and he didn't mind one bit. Two of the kittens were born on his back amongst his fur, she moved to the cupboard for the second two cupboards. Due to her having the kittns so young she never got a chance to experience being a kitten herself and practising hunting, therefore she is now a incredibly clumsy, lazy cat that cannot hunt and does not kill any animals she just watches animals such as mice and butterfly's but she wont hurt them.

Narrative: The narrative would involve the story being told, it would include images of Tilly and her kittens, and images of Murphy, it would also involve pictures of her pregnant when we got her before, and now which is one year down the line, It would involve footage of her climbing along the wall comedic footage and her with Murphy. It would also involve interviews with the people who were there and witnessed the birth of the kittens.

Agency: As the agency I would get interviews of the people who witnessed the birth explaining what happened and what it was like, I would alos have pictures of Tilly before the kittendsand now after the kittens, pictures of her when she actually was feeding and with the kittens with videos, and pictures of Murphy the dog involved, The agency would then mingle together all of the videos, images and interviews in a random order.

FINAL PITCH DECISION

!DOG STRANGE BEHAVIOUR!

Documentary Ideas "classification"

Research:

1) Story for Local Newspaper: Jack the Ripper !found/discovered!

2) A person you know: Kim Gordon

3) Investigation into something you are interested in: Dog Behaviour

4) A place: My house

5) An issue: Horses fallen in races over history (Newmarket)

6) Autobiography: Dan