Oleander is a screenplay and exegesis that explores how the supernatural drama contributes to a deeper understanding of contemporary feature writing. The central theorists of the feature film, represented here by McKee, Seger, Vogler and Hauge, have created a robust model built around a three act structure, an inciting incident and clear challenge pursued and resolved by a protagonist. The thesis argues that the supernatural drama also calls for the logical treatment of the supernatural element, its managed concealment and its step by step revelation as part of the story development. The thesis tests this idea through the writing of a supernatural feature Oleander, and an analysis of Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Sixth Sense. These latter two films manage suspense in profoundly different ways to produce profoundly different effects.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/264989 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Van Poppel, Elisabeth Wilhelmina |
| Publisher | Queensland University of Technology |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright Elisabeth Wilhelmina Van Poppel |
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