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FILM 270 Chapter 3 Notes
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Narrative Form● What’s a narrative?
○ Chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space
○ Draws us to make parallels
○ Narration-viewpoint of storytelling
● Plot and Story
○ Story- chain of events in chronological order
○ Viewers make assumptions based on whats shown
○ Diegesis- recounted story
■ Ex: sky scrapers, traffic shown in beginning of film depict the world the
movie is set in
■ Yet, things like sound are not diegetic b/c they are from the outside
● Characters as Causes
○ Create causes with their action within the film
○ Characters have traits
○ Not always tho- sometimes an outer event such as an earthquake or a storm
create a cause and effect
● Hiding Causes, Hiding Effects
○ Horror and sci fi leave us in the dark about what goes on
○ In order to create plot twist and mystery, some details are left out
● Time
○ We put things together chronologically
○ We have to pick up clues about time based factors
○ Temporal Order
■ Sometimes non sequential- flashbacks
○ Temporal Duration- decide on a time span and select duration
○ Temporal Frequency- seeing the same action in different way
■ Different narrators
■ Flashbacks shown several times
● Space
○ Openings
■ Set up of film
● Tells us about characters, situation before anything big happens
● Backstory to the film can be stated
○ Exposition
○ Development Sections
■ Causes and effects create patterns of development
■ Change in knowledge
■ Goal oriented plot- character aims for something
■ Flashbacks to lead up to event
○ Climaxes and Closings
■ Climax- high point- action presented having narrow range of outcomes
● Narration- plots way of distributing story information in order to achieve specific effects
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