2. FIVE-STAGE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
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We have chosen to use the five-stage narrative structure
1. Exposition
2. Development
3. Complication
4. Climax
5. Resolution
In our opening we are going to use exposition, development and bring the complication in at
the end.
3. EXPOSITION-SETTING THE SCENE AND INTRODUCING THE CHARACTERS.
• The setting that will be established at the beginning of
the film is the hill with the swing and the characters
room/house.
• The main character will be introduced first who is a
women dreaming.
• There will be a close up of her tossing and turning while
she is dream showing that she is become distressed by
the dream(makes it clear it’s a nightmare)
4. DEVELOPMENT-SITUATION DEVELOPS, MORE CHARACTERS
INTRODUCED
• Women wakes up
• Starts to write in a dairy about the dream she keeps having
• While writing, the audience will be able to see the real life story of what she
is writing.
• This is when the other two characters will be introduced- girls in the
nightmare
• Girls disappear
• Women draws a question mark in dairy
• Swing swinging
• Laugh
5. COMPLICATION-SOMETHING HAPPENS TO COMPLICATE
LIVES OF THE CHARACTER .
• Women doesn’t know why she is having these
nightmare
• Keeps seeing the girls in everyday life
• Gets home, some one has broke in and looked through
her diary
• Strange things happen in her house, doors shutting and
cupboards shutting
6. CLIMAX- DECISIVE MOMENT REACHED
• Women goes mental
• Becomes possessed
• Rocking on her bed
• Starts to search for the place in her dream
• When she gets there no one is there
7. RESOLUTION-MATTERS ARE RESOLVED AND
SATISFACTORY END IS REACHED
• She sits on the swing – the same as the girls in her nightmare
at the beginning
• Hear the laugh
• Different women wakes up
