narrative work

1. Narrative
JASMINE ANNE BRIGGS

2. What is narrative
Exploring the conventions of :
Genre
Character
Form
Time
The narrative is how the story is told, it’s the way you arrange the plots in a
film

3. Basic structures
Linear structure
Going through the story in order
Having the beginning, middle and end
Beg Mid End

4. Open Structure
The audience are left to wonder what happens next and make sense of it
themselves
Closed Structure
There is a definite ending with a clear conclusion
Circular Structure
The narrative begins at the end event. The audience are taken on a journey
arriving back where they started

5. Allan Cameron
Biography
‘‘My core research focus is on time, technology and media
aesthetics, with a strong orientation towards questions of memory
and history. My other principal research areas are New Zealand
cinema, Asian cinemas, media business practices and policies, and
the horror genre’.
Senior Lecturer
In: Film, Television & Media Studies
Allan Cameron is a theorist analysing modern cinema. He identifies
four different kinds of narrative called MODULAR narratives

6. Modular narratives
The four types of modular narratives
 Anachronic
 Forking Paths
 Episodic
 Split Screens

7. Anachronic
Something that’s not in it’s correct historical or chronical time. For example use
of flashbacks or flash forwards with no clear dominance between any of the
narrative threads.
Forking Path
There are two ways it can go. The forking path as a narrative which shows how
small changes can change the overall plot of a film with different outcomes due to
the small changes within them.

8. Episodic
This shows separate narratives of two different characters who are linked only
with the fact that they are involved on the same incident.
An "episodic narrative" is also story that can be told through a series of episodes.
Split Screen
A techniques that has two or more separate images displayed.