Narrative

Narrative

-What is meant be narrative in film and television?
- Whats have key theorists suggest is important when considering narrative?

Bordwell and Thompson define narrative as 'a chain of events in a cause-effect relationship occurring in time.

Elements of narrative:
Diagesis- The internal world created by the story that the characters themselves experience and encounter.

Story and Plot:
Story- All events reference both explicitly in a narrative and inferred.
Plot- The events directly incorporate into the action of the text and the order in which they are presented.

Narrative range:
Unrestricted narration- A narrative which has no limits to the information that is presented.
Restricted narration- Only offers minimal information regarding the narrative.

Narrative depth:
Subjective character identification- The viewer is given unique access to what a range of characters see and do.
Objective character identification-The viewer is given unique access to a characters point of view such as seeing things from the characters mind, dreams, fantasies or memories.

Propp's theory of narrative:
- Props based his theories on characters and said that they were the driving force in a narrative, calling them 'spheres of action' or function. He broke all characters down into seven types.
  • The hero
  • The villain
  • The donor
  • The helper
  • The princess
  • The dispatcher
  • The false hero 

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