Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Narrative- Structure, Formulas and Devices

Narrative Structure is where a consistant and traditional storyline is followed with easy elements that us as the audience have come to accept and easily understand, providing a framework for the unfolding story. These elements that represent narrative structure are dependant and varied on whatever the genre is or the film is about. Narrative sturcture can be broken down into content and form, and how it is used to tell the storyline, and how tit is presented to the audience.


Narrative Formula is where the film is showed to portray elements and themes that would be speficific to the film that the audience would guess at.


Narrative devices include ways of the author/director etc using devices to convey a message to the audience, devices can come across in many forms, this could be for example two characters speaking in code to signifify something is strange and unkown about the two characters, usind dialogue as a narrative device.

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