Narrative: a chain of events with a cause and effect
Diegesis: The internal world created by the story that the characters experience. it is a world within the show/film that we openly accept.
Story & Plot: Story - a more external basis in which you lean about the world the film/show is built in. Inclduing character build up
Plot - integral to the entirety of the show in a more specific way.
Unrestricted Narration: no to the info given to the audience eg news
Restricted narration: witholding information in order to build suspense or confusion eg thrillers, horrors etc
Narrative Depth: subjective character ID - a range of characters specific storylines invloved in one all encompassing storyline.
Objective character ID - unique character point of view eg dreams, thoughts etc
Vladimir Propps 7 character types within the theory of narrative:
The Hero - usually male restores order, always the centeral character~
The Villain - usually creates narrative disruption.
The Donor - Gives her item, information or advice in order to aid the quest given eg gandalf LOTR
The Helper/Sidekick - Offers help to the hero
The Princess - generally the character most threatened by the villain and must be saved by the hero at the climax.
The Dispatcher - Send hero on his/her task
The False Hero/Villain - appears to be good/bad but at the end is revealed to be bad/good
The characters can fufill 2 or more of these given criteria.
Modular Narrative : atriculate as a sense of time as divisible and subject to manipulation
4 types of modular narrative:
- anachronic - Flashbacks or flashforwards
- Forking Patths - shows effects of small changes eg groundhogg day.
Episodic narrative -
Anthology - different stories but repeating idea e.g. shipwrecked (lost) same conceptual basis differing events.
Split Screen - split screen narratives are spacial. e.g two screens
The Production process :
Camera types -
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