Introduction
Stories in film may be the most visually stimulating due to their direct mirroring of reality through motion pictures. For my narrative project, I wrote two scripts and planned out two films eventually creating one cohesive film
Synopsis
The film starts inside a jail where we are introduced to our protagonist who is struggling in jail. An important moment occurs when our protagonist is sitting and eating lunch on the jail grounds and is approached by other convicts. This interaction reveals a few very important things about our protagonist, 1) he is a lawyer, 2) prior to being convicted for tampering with evidence he was considered to be the best lawyer, 3) a large portion of the jail convicts are people that were convicted by him(making jail a very dangerous place for him(this will be important later)). We see a cut to the law firm where there is a lot of media around all the other top lawyers at the firm asking who will defend our protagonist where to no ordeal there is nobody who will defend him. Realizing he either must defend himself or go with a public defender we see the lawyer getting to work in his jail cell. We see him struggling to find the evidence to prove his innocence where we are then introduced to our mentor. Our mentor of the story is one of the convicts put into jail by our protagonist but accepts he isn’t upset about his conviction. We see the mentor explaining how he got to jail and that his once-promising career as a physicist gone to waste. After a timelapse of the lawyer working on the case with the mentor(while evading threats by other inmates), we are finally at the time for the trial. During the trial, we have the lawyer defending our mentor and proving his innocence leaving our lawyer in jail and our final shot of the mentor leaving prison. I am debating killing the lawyer at the end due to the other inmates( a poetic ending after a life of crime) but am not sure.
Screenplays
Narrative Breakdown/Lined script
Reflection
My film narrative taught me how to visualize a story and turn it into reality, this was the first time in my life where I have ever dealt with dialogue and I found that I didn’t particularly enjoy it. At the end of the day the value of finding a lack of enjoyment may be just as valuable as finding enjoyment in your work.