Week 9 - Narrative

In our lecture this morning we watched a Clip from Donny Darko, this exercise was to help us gain understanding of Narrative. We watched a directors cut and were asked to take notes on it and try and dissect it to try and understand what the directors intentions were on telling this story.

 After watching the clip I made some notes, I noticed that the sequence was running backwards and the grid over the screen seemed to imply time travel, I also noted that a lot of the shot's would work well as still images

These scenes stood out especially for me, as the whole sequence had hardly any dialogue, so rested on the strength of actors and the music which was more than enough to carry it off.