Narrative structure, codes and conventions of a fictional film

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1. Narrative structure
We have got different narrative structure for example:
 CLOSED: Is normally most of the time an happy
ending, everyone is satisfied, the majority of time is a
for granted ending where who wouldn’t expect that
thing goes differently
For example: Neighbors
 OPEN: It leaves the audience with suspense, with a
lot of questions bear in mind that will never have a
proper answer.
For example: Dear John, Very good girls
 MULTI – STRANDED: It is when the film is
composed by different protagonist with different
stories and then at the end they’ll all joy up.
For example: That awkward moment
 POV: It is when the story is narrate from a
protagonist that is in the film
For example: Room
2.Narrative techniques
 PLOT TWIST: It is an unexpected development
during the film.
 MACGUFFIN: It is the object, person or goal that
gets characters in a movie trying to find it, control it,
hide it or destroy it. It's important to move characters
in a plot from point A to Point B.

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 DEUS EX MACHINA: It’s an unexpected power or
event saving a seemingly hopeless situation.
 RED HERRING: It’s a clue or piece of information,
which is intended to be misleading or distracting.
 IN MEDIA RES: It usually describes a narrative that
begins, not at the beginning of a story, but
somewhere in the middle.

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3. TEXAX
CHAINSAW
3D
EXPOSITION:

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Heather finally gets the keys of the inherited house of the
long-lost grandmother, Verna, from Farnsworth and a
letter.
She enters in the buildings with her friends, but no one
know that someone else is whit them.
RISING ACTION:

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Excited about the property she now owns, Heather and
her friends look through the house, decide to stay there for
the night, and immediately set off to buy supplies and
food, trusting Darryl to stay behind and look after the
house. Darryl begins looting it and believes he will find
valuables in a locked room in the cellar. Upon entering the
locked room, he is killed by Leatherface. Heather and her
friends return and discover the house has been
ransacked, but choose to let it go. As Kenny prepares
dinner he finds the cellar, where Darryl was killed, and
Leatherface impales him on a meat hook.
CLIMAX:
While searching through a room upstairs, Heather finds a
decomposing body upstairs and runs to find her friends,
but she is knocked unconscious by Leatherface. She
wakes up in Leatherface's room where she manages to

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escape to the graveyard while Leatherface slices Kenny in
half with a chainsaw.
FALLING ACTION:

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Latherface while was about to definitely kill her, he saw
the scar on her chest, prove that they’re relatives so he
removed the chains from her wrists. Successively Heather
begins to flee, but she hears her cousin being beaten and,
realizing that Hartman and company still want to kill her
while Leatherface demonstrably does not, she decides to
help him, killing Ollie with a pitchfork and giving
Leatherface his chainsaw, which he uses to force Mayor
Hartman into a meat-grinder. Afterward, Heather and
Leatherface return home, where Heather reads the letter
from Verna which tells her Leatherface will protect her as
long as she takes care of him.
RESOLUTION:
Heather realizes that Leatherface is the only family she
has left, and traumatized by her ordeal, Heather decides
to stay with him. All the while, Leatherface non-verbally
promises to love her and protect her like he tried with his
family members before.

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4. Generic Conventions
 MISE-EN-SCENE: the arrangement of actors and
scenery on a stage for a theatrical production.
For example: Kingsman
 SETTING: the locale or period in which the action
takes place.
For example: Once upon a time
 VISUAL STYLE: is how you create the image
structure and style of the film.
For example: Gravity

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 THEMES: Is the main subject or idea in the film.
For example: I robot
 IDEOLOGY: is usually defined as a body of ideas
reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an
individual, group, class, or culture.
For example: Bruce Lee

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 STEREOTYPES: Are characteristics ascribed to
groups of people involving gender, race, national
origin and other factors.
For example: Chocolat
 NARRATIVE: Is about two things: the content of a
story and the form used to tell the story.
For example: Terminator

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 ICONOGRAPHY: The images or symbols related to
something. Calls attention even more insistently to
the display of masculinity.
For example: Frankenstein
 CINEMATOGRAPHY: Is the art of photography and
camerawork in film-making.
For example: The revenant

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 SPECIAL EFFECTS (SFX): Are illusions or visual
tricks.
For example: Snake on the plane
 SOUND: Is used in film to heighten a mood, provide
us with information about the location of a scene,
advance the plot, and tell us about the characters in
the story.
For example: Jurassic park

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