narrative forms
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Narrative forms BY CHARLIE POTTER
• 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?
Act 1setup
Act 2 confrontation
Act 3resolution
Introduction Rising action Crisis
Meet the characters Stakes get higher Falling action
Narrative structure
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
Tzvetan todorovEquilibrium- everything is balanced
Disequilibrium- a disruption in the event
Realisation that something has happened
Repairing the damage
New equilibrium