Narrative

Narrative is the way in which the story is organised. There are some elements to narrative that we need to understand:

Time- There is Realt ime and Chronological time covered. so for example, in the film High Noon, the film which is one and a half hours long covers an hour and a half in real time. Whereas the film Raging Bull uses a chronological time period. So over the Hour or so the film is on for, it covers 25 years.

Closure- This is when all the loose ends of the story and the plot are all tied together in order to give us an idea of the story closing, for example a murderer beng caught or a lost child coming home.

Enigma- This is the problem or the mystery that sends the protagonist on the journey or mission. It creates tension, just like in our thrillers. The mystery was the character in the black hoodie creeping around the school.

Classical Hollywood Narratives- Linear (In order of time) Beginning Middle To End. The Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (1994) is not classic Hollywood narrative because it starts withe the end, then jumps to the start to go through the story.

Subplots - This is when there are more then one storylines going on which normally intertwine with eachother. However many films prefer to use closure and stick to one storyline.