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Narrative forms BY CHARLIE POTTER

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Narrative forms BY CHARLIE POTTER

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• NARRATIVE FORM; THE STRUCTURE THROUGH WHICH MOVIES TELL STORIES.

• NARRATIVE; THE ACCOUNT OF A STRING OF EVENTS OCCURRING IN A SPACE OF TIME.

• NARRATIVES APPEAR THROUGHOUT MEDIA AND SOCIETY, THEY ARE COMMONLY FOUND IN NOVELS, PLAYS, COMIC BOOKS, TELEVISION AND EVEN ADVERTS. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MOST COMMON IN FICTION FILMS THEY ARE OFTEN FOUND IS BASIC FILMS AS WELL.

What is narrative form?

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Act 1setup

Act 2 confrontation

Act 3resolution

Introduction Rising action Crisis

Meet the characters Stakes get higher Falling action

Narrative structure

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EXAMPLE

• DR. HARRIS & MRS HARRIS ARRIVE IN BERLIN.• ELIZABETH POV SHOT IN HOTEL • CAR CRASH• WAKING FROM HIS COMA • ELIZABETH NOT RECOGNISING HIM• REVELATION OF DR. HARRIS'S STOLEN IDENTITY• LOOKING FOR THE CAB DRIVER FROM THE CRASH • BEING STALKED BY ASSASSINS• UNCOVERING HIS DARK PAST• DR. HARRIS FEELS HE IS ABLE TO HILL THE FAKE DR. HARRIS

10 key events in Unknown

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Tzvetan todorovEquilibrium- everything is balanced

Disequilibrium- a disruption in the event

Realisation that something has happened

Repairing the damage

New equilibrium