Tuesday, 3 December 2013

McKee's classic narrative structure

I have decided to use Mckees's narrative structure in my work. The first thing he has involved in the narrative structure is the exposition which involves the protagonist. In our case the protagonist is a sixteen year old white teenager and her name is becky. She attends secondary school. She will be shown wearing jogging bottoms and jumpers very basic clothing. This is typical of the BSR genre as the characters are always shown to be wearing basic clothing and nothing flashy. This will be a linear narrative where everything is in order and has a start middle and end. 

Agents of change
The mother is the antagonist and will disrupt the normality for her daughter. The mothers main motive is to make her daughter miserable as she blames the daughter for the father leaving. The mother will be shown to be hitting the daughter several times when she finds out she is pregnant. Fishtank influenced this Mia's mother abuses her daughters which subverts the stereotype of the fatherly figure for being abusive. This will be shown in a restrictive narrative meaning the narrative will be shown my the protagonists point of view.

Conflict complication.
Conflict has been shown throughout the whole film. The boyfriend Roy who becky meets later on during the film messes around with her. Meaning he leads her on onto thinking he was the one for her and helping out with her pregnancy. However he was just using her for drugs as he could not afford them himself. 

Summary.
Becky will be shown taking a pregnancy test which comes out positive showing that she is pregnant. Frustrated by the result she smashes up her room the ring everything everywhere and leaves her house. She's walking down and feels as if everyone's eyes are on her. She comes home and starts drinking and smoking effected by her test. The next day she wakes up and burst into tears her mother comes in to her room and says "shut up you little slut" and hits her across the face. She runs to the toilet as she feels sick. She realises she's living in poverty and decides to go back to school to educate herself so she can support her child. She goes to back to school and meets Roy who is in her schools sixth form. She begins to talk too him and and develops feelings for him. Her mother finds out she is pregnant and hits her daughter severely injuring her. Becky meets Roy and they decide to begin a relationship. They share everything together including drugs. One day she sees Roy with her another girl kissing which makes her very angry she storms home. Her mother starts to have a go at Becky. Becky has had enough so packs her stuff and leaves. With the spare cash she has she lives in a flat and works part time after school. She gives birth to a girl and her mother visits her at the hospital. This will be all linear but also a restricted narrative where all the events will be shown by her point of view. This is quite verisimilitude as these events do occur on daily basis , teenagers being pregnant but also having abusive parents. 

Climax and resolution.
The ending is of Becky giving birth to a baby girl at the hospital. Her mother arrives to congratulate her and apologises to her for all the abuse she did towards her daughter. They go back to the flat. There's a knock on the door and the mother opens it and says "what are you doing here" this creates enigma as the audience do not know who the Person is and will want to find out who it is. 

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