Narrative means by which a story within a film is structured and organised to create a given media.
How does narrative help the viewer?
Narratives usually have an exposition, which is an opening scene of a film and presents the main character (protagonist) and their situations or predicament. In the exposition, the narrative may also hint at a back story to that character which will shape the characters behaviour and the events that befall upon them.
How does this opening of 'Amelie' give the audience a sense of poulain?
This opening scene shows this young girl - Amelie - with no friends, and fighting for the love of her father, a obsessive doctor, and her mother, a control freak. It shoes her very alone, as she secludes into her imagination.
Types of narratives:
* Ellipsis
* Parallel narratives: The world isn't just one narrative.
* Flash backs /forwards.
*Russian theorist - Todorov -
1.) Equilibrium
2.) Disequilibrium
3.) New equilibrium
Problems:
Too basic
The ending isn't always good
Alternatively, films could fit into a different structure:
1.) Exposition
2.) Development
3.) Complication
4.) Climax
5.) Resolution
Perspective
* First person
* Third person
* Omnipotent - all knowing
* Objective/subjective view
* Direct address
* Voice over
How does narrative help the viewer?
Narratives usually have an exposition, which is an opening scene of a film and presents the main character (protagonist) and their situations or predicament. In the exposition, the narrative may also hint at a back story to that character which will shape the characters behaviour and the events that befall upon them.
How does this opening of 'Amelie' give the audience a sense of poulain?
This opening scene shows this young girl - Amelie - with no friends, and fighting for the love of her father, a obsessive doctor, and her mother, a control freak. It shoes her very alone, as she secludes into her imagination.
Types of narratives:
* Ellipsis
* Parallel narratives: The world isn't just one narrative.
* Flash backs /forwards.
*Russian theorist - Todorov -
1.) Equilibrium
2.) Disequilibrium
3.) New equilibrium
Problems:
Too basic
The ending isn't always good
Alternatively, films could fit into a different structure:
1.) Exposition
2.) Development
3.) Complication
4.) Climax
5.) Resolution
Perspective
* First person
* Third person
* Omnipotent - all knowing
* Objective/subjective view
* Direct address
* Voice over
