Today, I finally filmed my first person perspective narrative structure. I had to do a reflection so I would not forget what happened earlier.
The linear narrative of me climbing up the stairs, being a super klutz that day, tripping a lot. I had two friends help me film this sequence while crashing into people. I definitely had difficulty because I could not use both my hands at the same time. It was definitely difficult and I had to play around with that issue and find something to substitute the action with a simpler one.
I shot the first person perspective realising that I did not give much away of who the person’s shoe we are in. Besides the voice of the person during conversations, we could not tell who the person was. It sparked an interest thinking if I split them into two parts, it could possibly be a parallel narrative. With that in mind, I began using the YouTube doubler as my tool to allow viewers to create their parallel story the way they want it to happen.
The whole purpose of creating these sketches were to learn from it and maybe new ideas are created from them. This was exactly what happened to me. I stumbled upon parallel narratives when I started filming. This opened up a few ideas on how viewers can participate in this online video. By splitting the narrative into two parts “before class” and “after class”, viewers can control the cuts between the two narratives.
I figured this problem with the first person perspective could have done a little better if there was a witness or a bystander’s point-of-view instead of the main person’s point-of-view. However, if it was not for the main character’s point-of-view, the parallel narrative would not have worked out. There are different outcomes to different sketches, but this sketch probably have more I could work with. I should see the results once it has been edited and put on YouTube doubler.