Fragmented Narrative Exercise

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We began by quickly creating a slightly disjunctive narrative idea for the Little Red Riding Hood brief given to us, and sketched out a full storyboard. We then removed roughly half of the frames at random, creating a fragmented narrative with lots of space for other shots, such as cutaway. This slightly montage technique, with some elements of narration and an (on paper at least) chaotic storytelling style is extremely conventional for a generic music video.


Finally, we chose four frames out of these, which we then storyboarded in more detail to discover the actual number of different shots we would need to have filmed if we were doing this for a real video. This was an eye-opening experience for us as to the amount of footage we will need to shoot if only for a single second of video, let alone the whole thing. This exercise also taught us much about the types of shot used in conventional music videos and the way that a narrative idea can be presented in a fragmented fashion to create enigma and maintain interest compared out work last year with conventional dramatic narrative storytelling in films using continuity editing techniques.