Context of Practice 3 Storytelling research part 2

Storytelling with film.

I'm still trying to answer my question of why do we like Stories?
Previously I looked at the science behind storytelling which proved useful, however I felt it wasn't enough therefore narrowed the search into films only!

I found this which correlates to my way of thinking for my dissertation "Story is at the heart of any good film. Special effects, setting, stars are useless unless there is a good story
to be told. " found on this website.

From this I decided it would best to get as much information from here, so that I can use this information for more than quotes but as a opinion, because I agree with the statement above!

Within film there is:
Story Structure/Genre
Film techniques
Film structure

So firstly the Story
Normally the Story starts with the beginning, middle and end, however in some films the story can start at the end and then flashback to the start and work towards then ending.
When telling stories, audience is the most important consideration, and they expect to be surprised and enjoy the film, and from the last blog post about neuroscience with how our brain participates in the film!

Second part of Story is the genre
What is the film about? which setting it goes into?
So why do need to care about this?
- We care about this as it prepares us for what film is based about, in the website one of it's questions is "Think of the most recent film you have seen at the cinema. What type of story was it?
Look at imdb.com and the film’s website to find out where the filmmaker got his or her
inspiration to make the film."  This I found interesting as I looked into "Rise of the planet of the apes" because it was my most recent film.  Now I enjoyed this film as it's a prequel to the planet of the apes films in the 1968 and Tim Burtons 2001 film.  The director Rupert Wyatt was inspired by the old films. So what type of story was it? It was a action movie with a small amount of sci-fi elements, but also it was about the beginning of how the apes came into power which we don't know much about in the "planet of the apes" films. This gives the audience something to enjoy and be surprised by because they don't know until they watch the film.

Now linking back to my question of "Why do we like stories?"
From this I've learnt that we like them because we want to be surprised by the tale of the story and it's plot twists, however I must think about why it was structured in this way?  Possibly think about how it could have been structured differently and the outcome of effect on the story?