Planning the Draft for the Short Film Review - Short film Review

Planning the Draft for the Short Film Review - Short film Review

Before we started to create a draft for our short film review we sat down as a group and created a plan for the draft. This included mapping out the paragraphs that would be involved in the review and the rating for the short film. Also, we decided roughly what the summary review sentences are going to be.
Suggested by:
- Connor
- Sam
- Jake

Paragraph Plan:

1) Context: 

• In this paragraph, we will mention the director of the film and will link the director to the AS coursework that we created because we created a thriller opening and this short film has elements of a thriller film within it.

2) Summary information and character:

• Introduce the protagonist
• Introduce the friend
• Talk about the aims of the film which are for the audience to know that the protagonist is lonely and try to get the audience to sympathise with him.

3) Genre and Plot:

• Overview of the plot of the short film without spoiling the ending for the reader.
• Talk about the genre of the short film which is social realistic that deals with the real issues that can affect the target audience. 
• Also, there are elements of a thriller film.

4) Narrative Devices:

• Talk about Todorov and the clear use of his narrative structure.
• Talk about how the characters help develop the narrative.

5) Reviewer Experience:

• Suggest how the Little White Lies audience will react to the short film and if they would like it.
• Summary sentence to end the review.

Rating:

The Little White Lies Magazine uses 3 parts to its rating system and we discussed what rating our short film should get for all of these parts. Also, we have come up with a rough outline for the sentence about these parts. 

• Anticipation: 4 - Intriguing character development keeps the audience interested.
• Enjoyment: 3 - Sympathetic social realistic short film.
• In Retrospect: 3 - A strong build-up with a less than appetising ending.

All of this information will be used to create a first draft for the review for our short film. However, none of this information is definite meaning that it can be changed at any point.