Change in Narrative

Due to audience feedback, as well as our teachers advice about our current position in filming and editing, we have decided that our narrative wasn't working as well as we would like it to have. The overall narrative isn't a clear representation of the lyrics and doesn't truly show what we would like. We feel that the narrative is making our video slack, with several re shoots, little has improved with quality and ideas progression which has resulted in a poor narrative. As a group we thought it would be appropriate to amend the entire narrative. With help from our teachers across a few subjects, we came to the decision that the new narrative would be about a middle aged woman who is reminiscing her childhood by going to a school reunion. We thought that this would subtly link with a majority of the lyrics. She is now grown up and is less fruitful than her younger self in the 80s. By using this new narrative, re shooting it will be very easy as are planning on shooting inside our house, with our mum being the protagonist. This is beneficial as the narrative is actually understandable, structured and realistically coincide with the lyrics. The different location also provides opportunity for several different shot angles, lengths and movements. We also feel that by having the new narrative, we will be more motivated to film and get it correct. With our previous narrative it felt sluggish and tedious. I also feel that there would have been a certain unfairness when it come down to the 50:50 split of performance and narrative.

As time is running out, it is vital we film over the christmas break, if we fail to do this, the whole thing could potentially be ruined as we simply don't have enough time to film the whole narrative after Christmas.