1.short story title: <The Black Cat> by Edgar Allan Poe
In this assignment, I will be cooperating with my partner Simon Wang
2.characters&objects:
- The main character in this story will be the black cat that is kept by a couple who do not have any supersticious believes, the cat is the dominant subject of this story hence it should be listed on top of the hirarchy list.
- The second character who is sub-dominant is the insane man who killed the black cat.Due to his violent behaviours, the story can be developed through his interaction with his cat
- The critical object throughout the scenarios that we chose is the murder tool that the man used to kill the cat, a knife. This is considered third important because it is an object used by the man, hence the plot afterwards can be developed,which is about the killing.
- Lastly,we decide the fire to be the least important object of our whole scenarios since it is in the closure of scenes, and the man's house burned on fire can represent the outcome of the man's violence.
3.Scenes: The whole story takes place in the man's house except for the last scene where he watches his house burning down outside his house.For the mood of this story, we intend to create a sense of horror.And the scenes have characteristics such as quite and dark to emphasize the mood of the character.
4.Actons: First of all, the story will start wth the scene where the black cat shows up to the audience, to give the audience a hint that it is the dominant subject of the story and it is kept by human.
There will be actions included in the scenarios that we chose such as the man drinking his beers to convey the ideas that he is a downer and he is bad tempered. Also, there will be actions of the man taking his knife,walking toward the cat,and then start his violent killing.
After that, the man's house burned on fire,so there are actions such him kneeling in front of his house and crying desperately.Therefore, the story will end with the scenario where the man is outside crying for his burning house.
5.Introduction - the viewer's mood:
The viewer will feel uneasingness of the appearance of the black cat, because it indirectly tells something unfortunate gonna happen.
- pace: slow
- the charater's mood:
The man as the sub-dominant character will have the annoying mood in the beginning of the story maybe because of his unhappy life.
Complication: - the viewer's mood:
The viewer will have the mood of curiousity when seeing the man drinking beers, and wondering what will happen next, what has to do with the cat.
- pace:slow
- the character's mood:
The character will have the mood of furious annoyed .
climax: - the viewer's mood:
The audience at this time will feel scared or disgusted by the man's action of killing the cat.
- pace:fast
- the charater's mood:
Furious and unconscience for what he is doing.
Closure: - the viewer's mood:
The audience will feel furious for that the man has done, and the same time the fire buring the man's house will also make the audience feel comforted or uneased due to the black cat's curse.
- pace:slow
- character's mood:
The charater will feel desperate and sad for lossing his house.
6. Back story: We decide that our story will be presented wth the combination of text and image in the beginning to directly hint the audience what our story is about.
7.Concept: Our story concept is mystery and supersticious believes.Our intension of this story is to create a sense of horror to the audience.