Narrative in our AS piece of coursework

For our AS piece of coursework we made a 2 minute film opening which we named 'Leyla'. We had a clear idea of the narrative involved within the film however it may not have been particularly clear to the viewer from the opening, though they would have got the jist of it.

Our idea was actually a second attempt at our coursework as before it didn't go as well as we had hoped. We filmed our coursework and the concept was probably influenced slightly by the film 'Se7en' which we had watched in class. The idea was based around a young girl's stalker and her abduction by him. There was going to be a lot of camera shots in the photography dark room at school but other than this it was a very vague idea on the whole.

Our new narrative proved to work much better whilst filming. The narrative involves a young girl waking up in a field following a flashback which is what is shown in the opening. As we restarted our coursework we were very unsure of where we were heading with our coursework piece as our confidence was lowered from the bad attempt beforehand. We decided the flashback being shown would have effective camera shots that would certainly grab the viewers attention. We brainstormed and decided that the items shown in the flashback wouldn't make sense to the viewer at the beginning of the film, but as the film continues, the objects will be referred to from the flashback. Eventually all the items shown would reveal why the girl ended up lying in a field.

The voiceover used in the opening is effective because it is a police interview between the girls mother and a policewoman. Though the viewers do not know it yet, it is involved in our narrative that it is infact the girls mum who put her child there in the forest.